Posts on Rohit Goswami

Background # As I mentioned in my last post, I’m leading a section for Stanford CS106A: Code in Place.

Background # A few weeks ago, I ended up recording a video for the Stanford CS106A: Code in Place initiative (which can be found here).

Background # Like a lot of my tech based rants, this was brought on by a recent Hacker News post.

Explain why using bagging for prediction trees generally improves predictions over regular prediction trees.

Background # I recently read this post written by the now deceased Prof.

Background # I have had a lot of discussions regarding the teaching of git This is mostly as a part of the SoftwareCarpentries, or in view of my involvement with univ.ai, or simply in every public space I am associated with Without getting into my views, I

Background # Sometime this year, I realized that I no longer have access to a lot of my older communication.

Background # My dotfiles turned 4 years old a few months ago (since 9th Jan 2017) and remains one of my most frequently updated projects for obvious reasons.

Thoughts on and rationale behind leaving QWERTY and touch typing in general.

Background # For a while I was worried about writing about a TV show here.

Chapter VII - Moving Beyond Linearity # All the questions are as per the ISL seventh printing of the First edition1.

Chapter VI - Linear Model Selection and Regularization # All the questions are as per the ISL seventh printing of the First edition1.

Chapter V - Resampling Methods # All the questions are as per the ISL seventh printing of the First edition1.

Chapter IV - Classification # All the questions are as per the ISL seventh printing of the First edition 1.

Background # Pandora doesn’t work outside the states I keep forgetting how to set-up proxychains Proxychains # Technically this article expects proxychains-ng, which seems to be the more up-to-date fork of the original proxychains.

Background # I dislike Jupyter notebooks (and JupyterHub) a lot EIN is really not much of a solution either In the past I have written some posts on TeX with JupyterHub and discussed ways to use virtual Python with JupyterHub in a more reasonable manner.

Background # I end up writing about using poetry a lot I almost always use direnv in real life too I don’t keep writing mini scripts in my .envrc Honestly there’s nothing here anyone using the direnv wiki will find surprising, but then it is still neat to…

Background # As a member of several large organizations, I get a lot of github notifications.

Why this site exists # I have a lot of online presences.

Chapter II - Statistical Learning # All the questions are as per the ISL seventh printing of the First edition 1.

An attempt to re-claim and verify my digital presence.