Statistical gender bias
I recently stumbled on a debate where J. Peterson argues that the gender pay gap is mostly not due to gender bias. Let’s see what’s wrong with his argument.
Recent Posts
Understanding perplexity and its relation to cross-entropy and compression
Modern conditional and unconditional language models often report their perplexity as validation metrics. Let’s see what it means.
Auto-regressive language models don’t necessarily sample the most probable sentences
Have you even tried to sample greedily from a language model. It’s not a good idea. Let’s discuss why.
How wind affects your speed on a bike
Let’s look at how the wind affect your speed on a bike, the diminishing impact of power, and why you feel the drag suddenly passed a certain speed.
COVID cases from COVID test results
Let’s create a simple Bayesian network to visualise how reported positive tests of COVID inform us about the real number of COVID infections.
By how much is my smart watch overestimating my distance?
Watching my GPS tracking data, I noticed my track is oscillating around my true trajectory. How much extra distance is it?