Gwern — Order Statistics↗
by Gwern Branwen
Selection, ranking, and finding the best.
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Resorting Media Ratings
7 min#!/usr/bin/Rscript # attempt to load a library implementing the Bradley-Terry model for inferring rankings based on # comparisons; if it doesn't load, try to install it through R's in-language...
Multi-Stage Bean Machine Visualization: Advantages of Repeated Optimization
2 minThis is an interactive JS-based visualization of the difference in optimization potentials of a single-stage pipeline vs a multi-stage pipeline, in which new samples/measurements can be generated at...
Genius RevisitedRevisited
21 minHunter Elementary is a small elementary school in New York City enrolling ~50 students each year starting in preschool/kindergarten since the 1940s, who then typically enroll in the associated Hunter...
The Most ‘Abandoned’ Books on GoodReads
57 min1 Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1) Marlon James 2019 3.49 3.323 2 Space Opera Catherynne M. Valente 2018 3.50 2.714 3 Little, Big John Crowley 1981 3.83 2.
Common Selection Scenarios
8 minCookbook of code for common selection & order statistics scenarios in economics, psychology, decision theory, drug development etc.
Calculating The Gaussian Expected Maximum
3 minThe memoized function has 3 arguments, so memoising on the fly would seem to be the best one could do, since one cannot precompute all possible combinations of the n /mean/SD.
Best Student Ever!
5 minHarold Bloom amusingly recommends all students as his ‘best student ever’; modeled as a ‘record value’ order statistics problem, this is more common than it seems.
Speedrunning Is Not Such A Waste Of Talent
7 minthe main issue with video games is that a guy who, if he lived in 1820s germany, would have done something like document every type of beetle in his local province instead ends up making a 26 part...
‘leaky pipelines’ directory
1 minAnnotations sorted by machine learning into inferred 'tags' . This provides an alternative way to browse: instead of by date order, one can browse in topic order.