Colin Fraser
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Wrapify
An R package for making API wrappers declaratively
R
R Package
I often find myself needing to write functions to make API calls in R. This tends to involve a lot of boilerplate and repetition. The
{wrapify}
package is an attempt to…
Nov 19, 2024
1,162 words
Estimating how many there are of something when you can’t see them all perfectly
A brief introduction to
quantification
Essay
Statistics
I wrote a tweet recently complaining about how it’s hard to estimate how many of what kind of posts there are.
Nov 14, 2024
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Who are we talking to when we talk to these bots?
Essay
LLMs
An attempt to figure out who exactly ChatGPT is, if indeed it is anyone at all.
Feb 27, 2023
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Making Decisions With Classifiers
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ML
When you’re building a classifier, you face a tradeoff between precision and recall. You can have a high precision classifier which is usually right when it flags a positive, or you can have a high recall classifier which catches most of the positives, and often there is a spectrum in between. This post is about how to choose a point on that spectrum.
Oct 18, 2021
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