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Thoughts on statistics, data science, R programming, and quantitative methods.

 
Solutions to Principal–Agent Problems
Principal–agent problems arise when a principal delegates authority to an agent whose incentives, information, or risk preferences differ from the principal’s. In the…
Mar 19, 2026

Exploring qwen-3.5 35B
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Unpacking qwen-3.5 35B on my Linux machine. It does not run quickly but it is definitely worth exploring further. Here we explore models of marketing and some Monte Carlo…

Mar 10, 2026

Exploring qwen-3.5 35B in Accounting
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Unpacking qwen-3.5 35B on my Linux machine. It does not run quickly but it is definitely worth exploring further.

Mar 9, 2026

Cleaning my Inbox with Gemini
It was time to ask Gemini to help me out. With university email supported by Google, Gemini seemed like an ideal tool.
Feb 24, 2026

A Dissent in the Trump 14th Amendment Case?
Last updated: 2026-07-19 09:01:18.739415
Mar 4, 2024

Connecting RStudio and Github
Last updated: 2026-07-19 09:01:06.150696
Nov 12, 2023

Investigating shinylive
In his talk at rstudio::conf, Joe Cheng discussed the arrival of shinylive for R. Coming almost a year after the python deployment, it is really nice to think about teaching…
Oct 27, 2023

Updating R and R Packages
I find updating R to be unnecessarily time-consuming. Much of this is my fault; I do not make good choices about packages and their management. Nevertheless, in my never…
Oct 23, 2023

A Shiny on Corruption Data
Last updated: 2026-07-19 09:01:07.856449
Mar 17, 2023

Docker and Shiny
Last updated: 2026-07-19 09:00:31.15287
Mar 3, 2023

Parameterizing Markdown
Last updated: 2026-07-19 09:01:24.4689
Feb 26, 2023

Interactive Visualizations
Last updated: 2026-07-19 09:00:54.429588
Feb 20, 2023

Human Rights Protections–Tables
Chris Fariss of the University of Michigan has done some very interesting work on human rights protection. You can find tons of stuff on his work on his website. I want to…
Feb 13, 2023

Pigeons and Palettes
It really is an amazing pigeon. Apologies that I haven’t a photo credit for it; I found it one day on twitter as it went viral. It is a New York City pigeon.
Jan 3, 2023

geoFacets of Credit Quality
In previous work with Skip Krueger, we conceptualized bond ratings as a multiple rater problem and extracted measure of state level creditworthiness. I had always had it on…
Jan 2, 2023

Tribute to Griffin Park
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A tribute to Griffin Park. I had the opportunity to pub crawl all four pubs before kickoff. Brentford’s last season there.

Oct 23, 2019
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