Hello and welcome to the first (or zeroth?) issue of Weakly Informative!
I’ve always tried to constantly do some technical reading: whether that’s keeping up with papers, looking over some tutorials or studying a textbook. However, I now want to develop the habit of writing about what I read, since it helps me think about and critique my reading, instead of just passively absorbing information. Hence this newsletter!
It’s written by me, George Ho. I’m an applied researcher at Point72 Asset Management and a core contributor to the PyMC project. You can reach me through Twitter or email.
This newsletter will be for shorter-form (and only roughly polished) thoughts and responses to my technical reading. For longer-form and more polished pieces of writing, check out my website.
In terms of topics, it’ll be whatever I’m reading or learning, and what I think about them. I don’t want to box it too much, but I’d expect newsletters on natural language processing, Bayesian modelling, open source Python and other data-adjacent fields and gizmos.
As for programming, you can expect a newsletter once every two weeks (a.k.a.
fortnightly) month, on a random Thursday.
If you’d be interested in reading, you can subscribe here! You can also browse the newsletter archive, or subscribe to the RSS feed.
Hope you enjoy!
~ George