# Post Categories

## Meta

• ### First Post, An Explication

A solemn oath to the reader… An oath I will surely forget and fail to uphold. Take it as you will

## Mathematics

• ### Let's Cover Homology (pt 1)

What does topology have to do with data?! And what is this topology thing anyway?

• ### A dirty little ditty on Finite Automata

A basic yet formal introduction to Finite Automata and how strings act on them.

• ### What's in a language?

The basics of the theory of formal languages

## Probability

• ### Probability -- A Measure Theoretic Approach

We cover probability from a measure theoretic approach

## Statistics

• ### Decomposition of Autoregressive Models

We discuss the decomposition of AR models into components, and how eigenvalues are involved (because they always are).

• ### Markov Chain Monte Carlo

Markov Chain Monte Carlo is a tool for sampling otherwise intractible distributions. In this post, we’ll go through some descriptions, reasoning, and examples therein.

• ### Linear Regression -- The Basics

Linear Regression is the bedrock of Machine Learning. We cover the basics therein, some theory involved, and give some relevant examples.

## Riddles

• ### Getting across the river

The river-crosser’s union problem set #1

• ### Boys in the hood

What’s the probability the other one is a boy?

• ### About the riddles category

In a world filled with lame riddles, where can you find good ones?!

• ### $n$ people on a plane

In a world of seat stealing curmudgeons, will you get yours?!

• ### The Monty Hall Problem

The infamous Monty Hall! You’re on a gameshow with three doors, two have goats and one has a brand new car! What will you win?!

• ### Prisoners and The Lightblub

A group of prisoners encounter an evil warden and his sadistic lightbulb. Who will win?

• ### The blue-eyed reconing!

In a world of blue eyed and brown eyed people, it’s dangerous to know your own eye color.

• ### The 7 person game-show riddle

You and 7 friends are assigned numbers from 1-7 and you have to guess your own

• ### 2 ropes and a matchbook

You’re given two ropes that take 60 minutes to burn and a matchbook, and you need to measure 45 minutes.

## Theorem-of-the-day

• ### Let's talk Homotopy and Algebra

Just a little dip into homotopy via the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra