The Low Base Rate Problem| www.evanmiller.org
Why I Program In Erlang| www.evanmiller.org
Visual, interactive sample size calculator ideal for planning online experiments and A/B tests.| www.evanmiller.org
Transformer has a mathematical bug that has been overlooked for 6+ years. I propose fixing its outliers with two new devices, Softmax One and QuietAttention: Attention Is Off By One| Evan Miller’s News
A paper from Spotify on quantile estimation has been making the rounds. I take a stab at their critical conjecture, and uncover a few Formulas for Bootstrapping Sample Medians.| Evan Miller’s News
A/B tests run faster with CUPED. Here I explain the underlying math, and use it to invent an even better variance-reduction technique for online experiments: You Can’t Spell CUPED Without Frisch-Waugh-Lovell| Evan Miller’s News
An essay that bids farewell to x87, a computing architecture too long for this world: The Floppy Disk of Floating Point| Evan Miller’s News
What rolls down stairs and counts unique items imprecisely? HyperLogLog. Also SlowerLogLog| Evan Miller’s News
A Lost Lady, a Willa Cather novel which entered the public domain this year, is a gentle study in decline on the former frontier. Read my Preface to A Lost Lady| Evan Miller’s News
Brave New World reacquainted political philosophy with the prurient, after a two thousand year hiatus. Read my Preface to Brave New World| Evan Miller’s News
The Time Machine is my favorite science fiction novella. What makes it special? Read my Preface to The Time Machine| Evan Miller’s News
Frankenstein turned two hundred last year. Why is it still relevant? My very own Preface to Frankenstein| Evan Miller’s News
How much is the EveryDay Bonus from American Express worth? A probabilistic investigation: The Amex EveryDay Bonus: A Stochastic Valuation Model| Evan Miller’s News
I’m learning Swift. Some minor grievances I have with the language: Things That Bother Me About Swift| Evan Miller’s News
In honor of the upcoming Festivus, I am sharing some Mac-related grievances: Things That Bother Me About macOS| Evan Miller’s News
I spent a few weeks with Perl 6. Here’s what I think: A Review of Perl 6| Evan Miller’s News
The Perl 6 virtual machine is a promising piece of technology: Why I’m Learning Perl 6| Evan Miller’s News
Identifying and quantifying dead ends, the bane of all adventure game players: Adventure Games and Eigenvalues| Evan Miller’s News
Reflections on the Microsoft Surface Studio and Apple’s inevitable giant iPad: Big Tablets Are Coming| Evan Miller’s News
Making C more flexible, with the help of x86_64 calling conventions: Type Punning Functions in C| Evan Miller’s News
Nintendo keeps trying to fix Splatoon’s ranking system. They won’t succeed without a solid understanding of linear algebra. Read more: Splatoon’s Ranking System Is Still Broken| Evan Miller’s News
Cut your A/B sample sizes in half, using this one weird trick: Simple Sequential A/B Testing| Evan Miller’s News
I’ve added several new formulas to “A Formula for A/B Testing” (now known as Formulas for Bayesian A/B Testing). In addition to including the count data formula on the page, I have extended both formulas to work with three-pronged tests, that is, A/B/C tests.| Evan Miller’s News
Evaluating Splatoon’s Ranking System — Using probability theory to uncover a subtle bug in Splatoon.| Evan Miller’s News
Inferring Tweet Quality From Retweets — Modeling tweets, retweets, and the passage of time.| Evan Miller’s News
Ranking News Items With Upvotes — A formula for social news websites.| Evan Miller’s News
Deriving the Reddit Formula — What can expected-utility theory tell us about Reddit’s “hot” formula?| Evan Miller’s News
A Taste of Rust — I tried Rust, and it was better than eating a bucket of nails.| Evan Miller’s News
Four Days of Go| www.evanmiller.org
Are you falling victim to the peeking problem? Learn how to design and run an experiment properly.| www.evanmiller.org
Elixir RAM and the Template of Doom| www.evanmiller.org