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I'm a researcher in Computational Humanities and Cultural Evolution at Amsterdam's [Meertens Institute](https://meertens.knaw.nl/index.php/en/), affiliated with the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. I study aspects of cultural change and experiment with methods to quantify cultural diversity. A significant aspect of my recent work is understanding and accounting for biases in these quantifications. I like to use computational models from fields such as Machine Learning, Cultural Evolution, and Ecology to aid these investigations. Beyond research, I have a passion for teaching computer programming, especially within the Humanities context. Together with [Mike Kestemont](http://mikekestemont.github.io/) and [Allen Riddell](https://www.ariddell.or...
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[AI summary] This technical blog post explains the advantages of hierarchical Bayesian modeling over non-hierarchical approaches using a case study of predicting radon levels across different US counties with the PyMC3 library.
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In inverse transform sampling, the inverse cumulative distribution function is used to generate random numbers in a given distribution. But why does this work? And how can you use it to generate random numbers in a given distribution by drawing random numbers from any arbitrary distribution?
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