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The most common mistake I encounter in practical data science work is a certain type of unwarranted complexity in model choice and deployment.

Ensemble smoother algorithms are used to approximate a posterior distribution.

I Norge har vi en svært god prosess for opptak til høyere utdanning.

Dersom 5% sniker på bussen i område A, og 2% sniker i område B - hvordan bør Ruter fordele billettkontrollørene sine?

I started strength training in 2006.

Did you know that building new roads can increase traffic congestion in a city?

NRK har publisert en sak om overtidsregler for deltidsansatte, og skriver at det er fastlåste posisjoner mellom arbeidsgivere (NHO, KS, Virke og Spekter) og arbeidstakere (Fagforbundet og LO).

Writing a savings calculator is a great programming exercise for beginners.

Denne artikkelen er et tankeeksperiment der vi skal endre det norske skatte- og bidragssystemet.

Whether you’re solving differential equations, training neural networks, inferring parameters in a statistical model or solving optimization problems, you’ll find linear algebra at the core of almost every routine.

Here’s an inspirational, and perhaps true, quote by Stephen Boyd: When you end up being trained in just a handful of areas, you can be unbelievably effective across fifty fields.

Oppdatering: To dager etter at jeg skrev denne artikkelen ble jeg informert om innlegget “Enkelt å forbedre fastlegeordningen - med en algoritme” i Dagens Næringsliv.

probabilit is a Python package for Monte Carlo modeling that I helped create.

Inspired by A Recipe for Training Neural Networks, here are some tips and tricks for curve fitting.

I denne artikkelen skal vi gå gjennom betraktninger og metoder for å lage en lønnskalkulator for IT-utviklere.

Ratings and rankings are everywhere in daily life.

Elever spør ofte “når får jeg bruk for dette?”

A friend of mine is part of a group that arranges bets at their workplace.

Fraværsgrensa i videregående skole er på 10%.

Denne artikkelen presenterer matematikken bak valgomater.

This is a translation of my Norwegian article about VAAs.

Anta at to personer skal kjøpe en bolig sammen, men har ulik egenkapital og/eller ulik betalingsevne på boliglånet.

Strømprisen har tatt stor plass i media de siste årene.

In this article we’ll analyze data from a blind test.

I try to read a few math books every year, but the more I learn, the more overlap I see in their content.

NRK published a fun game on their website called “Former” (English: “Shapes”).

Presentation slides and video of a talk I gave about notions of averages (one-parameter models), loss functions and simple machine learning problems.

I recently implemented a calculator for Norwegian income tax, and it was harder than I anticipated.

Arithmetic coding is a lossless data compression algorithm.

Det er mange triste saker om dårlige turnusplaner i media.