This is a bit of a different one, but I think it’s a decent showcase of Occam’s razor. I’ll be looking at how the enemy AI is designed in the video game F.E.A.R. F.E.A.R., Monolith Productions’ 2005 first-person shooter game, was critically acclaimed for having some of the best non-player...
Continue reading...Are there really three types of lower back pain?
Spoiler: yes. But read the rest of this post to find out why we’re reasonably convinced. The expert opinion on back pain is that it falls into three categories: Nociceptive: Pain that arises from actual or threatened damage to non-neural tissue, occurring with a normally functioning somatosensory nervous system. Peripheral...
Continue reading...COVID-19: how long until the lockdown ends?
The UK government announced an increase of at least three weeks in the lockdown period yesterday, a decision with which I fully agree. But as the lockdown is starting to take its toll on me, I figured a fruitful thought experiment would be to consider when it might end. Given...
Continue reading...Clustering, the Bayesian way
I recently finished a report on Bayesian nonparametrics and I figured a post to motivate the excitement around the area would be warranted. Since most of what goes on under the hood when modelling your problem this way is some pretty involved pure mathematics, let’s start with a concrete-ish problem....
Continue reading...The maths behind internet ads
The decision process behind websites serving specific ads was something I had wondered about for a while, so today I took the plunge and did some digging. Here’s what I came up with. When you perform a Google search, you usually get a list of ads that are relevant to...
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