Since I’ve slowed down with interesting blogging, I thought I’d do some lazy self-promotion and share the slides for three recent talks. The first (hosted by the Finnish Center for Arti…| Justin Domke
Say you get a large group of people and split them into three groups. The first group gets this question: What is the length of the Mississippi river? The second group gets these questions: Is the …| Justin Domke
You drew 40 random cells from a sample and found that a new drug affected 16 of them. An online calculator told you: “With 90% confidence, the true fraction is between 26.9% and 54.2%.”…| Justin Domke
Say you’re developing a new anti-cancer drug. You apply it to some cell line, draw 40 random cells, and manually inspect them. You find that the drug changed 16 of the 40, suggesting the drug…| Justin Domke
The replication crisis in psychology started with a bang with Daryl Bem’s 2011 paper Feeling the Future: Experimental Evidence for Anomalous Retroactive Influences on Cognition and Affect. In…| Justin Domke
I sometimes worry that people credit machine learning with magical powers. Friends from other fields often show me little datasets. Maybe they measured the concentration of a protein in some cell l…| Justin Domke
Say you’ve got a positive dataset and you want to calculate the variance. However, the numbers in your dataset are huge, so huge you need to represent them in the log-domain. How do you compu…| Justin Domke
(All based on these excellent slides from Umberto Picchini) “Approximate Bayesian Computation” sounds like a broad class of methods that would potentially include things like message pa…| Justin Domke
1. Think of theorem statements like an API. Some people feel intimidated by the prospect of putting a “theorem” into their papers. They feel that their results aren’t “deep&…| Justin Domke
As part of the graphical models course I taught last spring, I developed a “cheatsheet” for exponential families. The basic purpose is to explain the standard moment-matching condition …| Justin Domke