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The unbearable effectiveness of the Central Limit Theorem

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The Central Limit Theorem is one of the most astonishing results in statistics. Let’s cover briefly what it states (in one of its forms): if we have \(N\) in...

Every AB test is wrong

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The industry, through concepts like agility and Lean Startups, has taken on rapidly the practice of performing AB tests. In a nutshell, the AB tests are cont...

Where does the t-distribution come from? Sampling with unknown variance

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The Student’s t-distribution is ubiquitous in statistics, more specifically in the realm of hypothesis testing in continuous variables. What it means concept...

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Software engineering for Machine Learning – Part III: Production-is-exploration

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This is part of a series of posts in which we discuss the challenges and strategies for the productionization of machine learning code. If you haven’t, make ...

Software engineering for Machine Learning – Part II: An overeager implementation

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This is part of a series of posts in which we discuss the challenges and strategies for the productionization of machine learning code. In our previous post ...

Software engineering for Machine Learning – Part I: Motivation

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Machine Learning and Data Science code has its own set of challenges and peculiarities. When we write code to be used by Data Scientists or Machine Learning ...

Python and C interaction: Part III - Advanced use of Ctypes

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We will discuss in this topic a completely Pythonic way to communicate C and Python and make the end result completely Object Oriented, not usually explained.

Python and C interaction: Part II - Ctypes

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We have discussed previously about the ubiquity of ctypes to speed up Python code. A word of caution is that we do not really speed up Python code: we are ca...

Python and C interaction: Part I - An Introduction

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Too much is said of Python as a glue. Although many Python advocates use this to value Python over other languages, the truth is that any high-level scriptin...

WTPC: A Case for Software Carpentry

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We have recently (from March 7th to 18th) held our first Workshop in Scientific Programming Techniques, Link in Spanish. It took place in the Physics Departm...

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Molecular Physics: Hartree-Fock and Configurations Interaction

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Exercises and solutions in Quantum Chemistry

Calculation of the structure factor in computer simulations

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Formal definition of the structure factor

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No al clickbait: un botcito con GPT3

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Terminó el 2022, comenzó el 2023 y con él se refrescan los hypes: dejamos pasar el hype de crypto (por un ratito, seguramente en un tiempo vuelva) que tuvo p...