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Search and Increasing Returns, or, No One Makes You Push to Github

Weblog: Search and Increasing Returns, or, No One Makes You Push to Github
bactra.org/weblog/no-on...

07.03.2026 03:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Statistical Complexity of Link Prediction

Weblog: Statistical Complexity of Link Prediction
bactra.org/weblog/netwo...

07.03.2026 03:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
The Professoriate Considered as a Super-Critical Branching Process

Weblog: The Professoriate Considered as a Super-Critical Branching Process
bactra.org/weblog/profe...

06.03.2026 12:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Unsolicited Opinions

Weblog: Unsolicited Opinions
bactra.org/weblog/obite...

06.03.2026 12:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
How Statistics and Machine Learning Came To Have Two Different Kinds of Kernel Methods

Weblog: How Statistics and Machine Learning Came To Have Two Different Kinds of Kernel Methods
bactra.org/weblog/two-k...

06.03.2026 12:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Recovering Networks from Noisy Observations

Notebook: Recovering Networks from Noisy Observations
bactra.org/notebooks/re...

06.03.2026 12:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
The Dying Earth

Notebook: The Dying Earth
bactra.org/notebooks/dy...

06.03.2026 12:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
"Attention", "Transformers", in Neural Network "Large Language Models"

Notebook: "Attention", "Transformers", in Neural Network "Large Language Models"
bactra.org/notebooks/nn...

06.03.2026 12:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Information Theory and Large Deviations in the Foundations of Statistics

Notebook: Information Theory and Large Deviations in the Foundations of Statistics
bactra.org/notebooks/in...

06.03.2026 12:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Inference for Stochastic Differential Equations

Notebook: Inference for Stochastic Differential Equations
bactra.org/notebooks/sd...

06.03.2026 12:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Recurrence Times of Stochastic Processes (also Hitting, Waiting, and First-Passage Times)

Notebook: Recurrence Times of Stochastic Processes (also Hitting, Waiting, and First-Passage Times)
bactra.org/notebooks/re...

06.03.2026 12:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Some Bad (Heuristic) Combinatorial Large Deviations Arguments

Notebook: Some Bad (Heuristic) Combinatorial Large Deviations Arguments
bactra.org/notebooks/ba...

06.03.2026 12:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Recovering Networks from Noisy Observations

Notebook: Recovering Networks from Noisy Observations
bactra.org/notebooks/re...

27.02.2026 17:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Propagation of Error to the Rescue? A Naive Baseline for Quantifying the Uncertainty of Complex Predictive Models Fit by Smooth Minimization

Notebook: Propagation of Error to the Rescue? A Naive Baseline for Quantifying the Uncertainty of Complex Predictive Models Fit by Smooth Minimization
bactra.org/notebooks/pr...

13.02.2026 16:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Historical Materialism

Notebook: Historical Materialism
bactra.org/notebooks/hi...

13.02.2026 16:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Some Bad (Heuristic) Combinatorial Large Deviations Arguments

Notebook: Some Bad (Heuristic) Combinatorial Large Deviations Arguments
bactra.org/notebooks/ba...

13.02.2026 16:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
History of Science

Notebook: History of Science
bactra.org/notebooks/hi...

13.02.2026 16:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Branching Processes

Notebook: Branching Processes
bactra.org/notebooks/br...

31.01.2026 14:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Dynamics in Cognitive Science

Notebook: Dynamics in Cognitive Science
bactra.org/notebooks/dy...

31.01.2026 14:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Some Bad (Heuristic) Combinatorial Large Deviations Arguments

Some Bad (Heuristic) Combinatorial Large Deviations Arguments
bactra.org/notebooks/ba...

28.01.2026 18:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Random Feature Regularization

Notebook: Random Feature Regularization
bactra.org/notebooks/ra...

01.05.2025 14:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Course Announcement: "Statistical Principles of Generative AI" (Fall 2025)

Course Announcement: "Statistical Principles of Generative AI" (Fall 2025)

bactra.org/weblog/stats...

22.04.2025 17:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
On Feral Library Card Catalogs, or, Aware of All Internet Traditions

Post: On Feral Library Card Catalogs, or, Aware of All Internet Traditions
bactra.org/weblog/feral...

16.04.2025 17:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2025

Post: Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2025
bactra.org/weblog/algae...

16.04.2025 17:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Economic Networks

Notebook: Economic Networks
bactra.org/notebooks/ec...

12.04.2025 16:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Mori-Zwanzig Formalims

Notebook: Mori-Zwanzig Formalisms
bactra.org/notebooks/mo...

12.04.2025 16:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Becker Economies, i.e., Microeconomics Based on Random Choice within Constraints

Notebook: Becker Economies, i.e., Microeconomics Based on Random Choice within Constraints
bactra.org/notebooks/be...

12.04.2025 16:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
The Books I Am Not Going to Write

Blog post: The Books I Am Not Going to Write
bactra.org/weblog/books...

01.04.2025 04:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2025

Blog post: Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2025
bactra.org/weblog/algae...

01.04.2025 04:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
"Occam"-style Bounds for Long Programs

Notebook: "Occam"-style Bounds for Long Programs
bactra.org/notebooks/oc...

26.03.2025 17:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0