Thomas Wiecki
Bayesian modeling, Data Science, & Python
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An Intuitive Guide to Self-Attention in GPT: The Venetian Masquerade
When I was younger, one of my favorite board games was…
Thomas Wiecki
Jan 4, 2024
Introducing PyMC Labs: Saving the World with Bayesian Modeling
After I left Quantopian in 2020, something interesting…
Thomas Wiecki
Feb 23, 2021
Computational Psychiatry: Combining multiple levels of analysis to understand brain disorders - PhD thesis
I noticed that as my personal website at my former…
Thomas Wiecki
Mar 15, 2019
Foreword to: Bayesian Analysis with Python, 2nd Edition
When Osvaldo asked me to write the foreword to his new book I felt…
Thomas Wiecki
Jan 21, 2019
Using Bayesian Decision Making to Optimize Supply Chains
One big problem I often observe with data science is that…
Thomas Wiecki & Ravin Kumar
Jan 14, 2019
Hierarchical Bayesian Neural Networks with Informative Priors
Imagine…
Thomas Wiecki
Aug 13, 2018
An intuitive, visual guide to copulas
People seemed to enjoy my intuitive and visual…
Thomas Wiecki
May 3, 2018
What’s new in PyMC3 3.1
People seemed to enjoy my intuitive and visual…
Thomas Wiecki
Jul 5, 2017
Random-Walk Bayesian Deep Networks: Dealing with Non-Stationary Data
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Thomas Wiecki
Mar 14, 2017
Why hierarchical models are awesome, tricky, and Bayesian
Hierarchical models are underappreciated. Hierarchies…
Thomas Wiecki
Feb 8, 2017
Bayesian Deep Learning Part II: Bridging PyMC and Lasagne to build a Hierarchical Neural Network
Recently, I blogged about Bayesian Deep Learning with PyMC3 where I built a simple hand-coded Bayesian Neural Network…
Thomas Wiecki
Jul 5, 2016
Bayesian Deep Learning
Original blog post…
Thomas Wiecki & Maxim Kochurov
Jun 1, 2016
MCMC sampling for dummies
When I give talks about probabilistic programming and…
Thomas Wiecki
Nov 10, 2015
A modern guide to getting started with Data Science and Python
Python has an extremely rich and healthy ecosystem of data…
Thomas Wiecki
Nov 18, 2014
The Best Of Both Worlds: Hierarchical Linear Regression in PyMC
The power of Bayesian modelling really clicked for me when…
Thomas Wiecki & Danne Elbers
Mar 17, 2014
Easily distributing a parallel IPython Notebook on a cluster
Have you ever asked yourself: “Do I want to spend 2 days…
Thomas Wiecki
Feb 24, 2014
Animating MCMC with PyMC and Matplotlib
Here’s the deal: I used PyMC, matplotlib, and J…
Thomas Wiecki
Jan 2, 2014
Hammer time: Nailing the emcee ensemble sampler onto PyMC
tl;dr: I hacked the
emcee
–The MCMC-Hammer ensemble…
Thomas Wiecki
Sep 23, 2013
This world is far from Normal(ly distributed): Bayesian Robust Regression in PyMC
This tutorial first…
Thomas Wiecki
Aug 27, 2013
The Inference Button: Bayesian GLMs made easy with PyMC
This tutorial…
Thomas Wiecki
Aug 12, 2013
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