Maximum Entropy

I am hosting here a small blog, updated once every blue moon. Most of my posts concern topics I found worthwile to explore into detail. Others are summaries of books I found particularly interesting, transcripts of presentiations I gave or snippets of code to explore.

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2023

đź“šThinking in Systems: A Primer

đź“šModeling and Simulation in Python

2022

đź“šAntifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

đź“šMindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas

đź“šHow the World Really Works

Modelling cocktail shaking

Sum-product networks

đź“šBuild: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

đź“šTransformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death

đź“šDe wereld red je niet met minder (âš  in dutch)

đź“šA Thousand Brains

đź“šThe Little Book of Stoicism

Hyperdimensional computing

đź“šThe Origins of Evolutionary Innovations

On betting optimally

2021

đź“šThe Flaws That Kill Our Democracy

Newton fractal

đź“šThe Universal Rights of Plants

đź“šScale

đź“šIngredients

đź“šThe Righteous Mind

No more objective functions?

Optimal transportation for species interaction networks

Softmax demystified

2020

Julia for teaching optimization

đź“šHow to take smart notes

Advice on being effective

Computational mixology

2019

On wizardry and Prophecy

On the Apocalypse, programming languages and quantum suicide

Uncertainty propagation and high-dimensional indexing in Julia

On recovering matrices

2018

The books of 2018

Climbing the ladder of causality

Lessons from convex optimization

The joy of sketchnoting

The books of 2017

2017

Sorting socks and other practical uses of algorithms

Some thoughts on Homo Deus

Notes on Optimal Transport

WeGoSTEM

Seven things I learned during the PhD Cup media school