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I made a New Year's resolution: every plot I make during 2018 will contain uncertainty estimates. Nine months in and I have learned a lot, so I put together a summary of some of the most useful methods.
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This post demonstrates how to approximate the KL divergence (in fact, any f-divergence) between implicit distributions, using density ratio estimation by probabilistic classification.
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[AI summary] This article details an experimental testbed for an unbiased Monte Carlo renderer that utilizes importance sampling, explicit light sampling, and Russian roulette path termination to achieve photo-realistic images significantly faster than traditional methods.
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For my day job, I spend a lot of time thinking about e-commerce analytics and cohort analysis in particular. Statistical age-period-cohort (APC) models are important in many fields such as epidemiolo
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