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Paper Highlight: The Economic Organisation of a P.O.W. Camp
This is a fun paper: The Economic Organisation of a P.O.W. Camp; it is a mostly narrative account of life in various prisoner of war (P.O.W.) camps in World War 2 with an eye on the economic life of these camps.
Gun Violence Incident Grouping via PCA
Gun Violence Statistics
Dota 2 Drafting Part 2: Hero Pairings
Dota 2 Drafting Part 1: Data Collection
Dota 2 captain’s mode entails a drafting phase where a sequence of picks and bans are issued by the team captains. As of this writing, there have been 1,933,725,512 total matches of Dota 2 played, in all modes. It may be possible now with this body of data to build a machine learning algorithm for prediction and for drafting suggestions.
Centrality & Maximal Entropy Random Walks
Node centrality can be tricky to measure if it is not assumed the whole graph structure is accessible. However, approximation techniques can be used (in particular, an approximation to maximal entropy random walks) to determine central nodes.
Assorted Academic Writing
This is an archive of expository papers I have written. I have attempted to organize them by most relevant subject area.
Mathematica Projects
This is the archive listing of all the old Mathematica projects hosted on the old website.
Minima Finding
These are notes, originally written for a class I gave, about two line search methods for finding a minima in the deterministic context. I’m pretty happy about how the typesetting turned out, as it was my first foray into a “real” article.