I once told someone glibly that I didn’t believe in luck. That triggered a lengthy discussion about being hit by lightning and other instances of unpredictable mishap or serendipity – aren’t all of these luck? I’m closer now to articulating what I meant. I don’t believe in systematic chance. Or to put it another way, some […]
All blog posts Data science Sanity checks as data sidekicks. Organizing knowledge A long time ago, I wrote my own note-taking software. This got me thinking a lot about how we organize knowledge on computers. We want to tag things, and for those tags to have their own hierarchy. (also) Wouldn’t it be great if our […]
Preface: I wrote this to a friend asking me for advice about whether to embark on a science PhD. At the time of writing I still had more than a year to go – so I could see the summit in the distance, but I was feeling grim about the steep icewall I had to […]
Greg Detre 