notes by jules jacobs
  • Jul 28, 2024

    You Don't Need Matrix Calculus

  • Jul 27, 2024

    Indexing Binary Heaps

  • Jul 25, 2024

    The CAP theorem

  • Feb 15, 2024

    Demystifying lvalues

  • Jan 5, 2024

    Timestamps in UUIDs

  • Dec 15, 2023

    How good are humans at mathematics?

  • Dec 14, 2023

    On battery storage

  • Oct 5, 2023

    Why Coq VMs are useless

  • Sep 23, 2023

    On NaN comparison

  • Sep 23, 2023

    On div and mod

  • Sep 22, 2023

    Deep learning is maximum likelihood

  • Sep 21, 2023

    Generalizing itertools

  • Sep 19, 2020

    A magic determinant formula for symmetric polynomials of eigenvalues

  • May 23, 2019

    Stronger unit propagation when solving CSPs with a SAT solver

  • May 9, 2019

    Earley parsing in cubic time

  • Apr 10, 2019

    Disambiguation of context free grammars

  • Mar 25, 2019

    Bayes’ rule from minimum relative entropy, and an alternative derivation of variational inference

  • Mar 24, 2019

    Bayes’ rule simply

  • Mar 20, 2019

    Why two’s complement works

  • Mar 15, 2019

    Leapfrog and Verlet are the same method

  • Mar 10, 2019

    Consistent execution of imperative reactive programs

  • Mar 10, 2019

    Proof that the calculus sin and cos functions equal the geometric sin and cos

  • Mar 9, 2019

    Math puzzle: how many coins do you need to toss to maximise the probability of getting 10 heads?

  • Mar 9, 2019

    What is contification?

  • Mar 8, 2018

    Combining probabilities? Try a logarithm.

  • Feb 22, 2018

    Hooks bring React closer to Functional Reactive Programming

  • Aug 26, 2016

    Simpler and faster Levenshtein automata

  • Aug 17, 2015

    Bayesian ranking of items with up and downvotes or 5 star ratings

  • Jun 17, 2015

    Levenshtein automata can be simple and fast

  • May 14, 2015

    Disqus comments

  • May 6, 2015

    Determining hot items with exponentially decaying likes

  • May 6, 2015

    New layout

  • Nov 11, 2014

    Fast immutable vectors in C#

  • Oct 25, 2014

    Optimizing immutable stacks & queues in C#

  • Oct 23, 2014

    Newton, The Ultimate: One Weird Trick To Make You A Mathematical Superhero, part 2: Julia, optimization, and automatic differentiation

  • Oct 18, 2014

    The best collections library design, part 2

  • Oct 16, 2014

    Newton, The Ultimate: One Weird Trick To Make You A Mathematical Superhero, part 1

  • Oct 16, 2014

    The best collections library design, part 1