Hi, I’m Hugh McDougall, an astronomy PhD student at the University of Queensland. Here in this blog, I’ll be posting little instructional guides on the tools and topics I focus on in my study, with a specific eye towards providing a clear and uncomplicated foothold on some obscure corners of data-science.

Navigation

• Comfortably NumPyro - A guide to NumPyro to help demystify its more obscure features
  • Getting Started - An absolute beginners guide to NumPyro
  • The Constrained Domain - Explanation of constranied vs unconstrained domains in NumPyro
  • Testing Different MCMC Samplers - A quick overview of the different samplers in numpyro and their strengths / weaknesses
  • Nested Sampling - An exploration of nested sampling in NumPyro
  • Stochastic Variational Inference - An intro and guide to SVI in NumPyro
    • SVI Part 1 - Introduction & Explanation
    • SVI Part 2 - Examples & Comparison with MCMC
• Statistics Articles - General Statistics Articles
  • Data Tension Examples - An example of data tension
  • Is the Raffle Rigged? - Practical stats for a toy problem
  • NumPyro Workshop - An introduction to NumPyro for the UQ astro group
  • Jax Example - An example of how to use jit and vmap for my own convenience

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This page by Hugh McDougall, 2024

For more detailed information, feel free to check my GitHub repos or contact me directly.