The unbearable effectiveness of the Central Limit Theorem Aug 11, 2025 / 8 minutes readThe 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 Mar 4, 2023 / 6 minutes readThe 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...
No al clickbait: un botcito con GPT3 Jan 21, 2023 / 5 minutes readTerminó 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...
Where does the t-distribution come from? Sampling with unknown variance Nov 22, 2022 / 5 minutes readThe Student’s t-distribution is ubiquitous in statistics, more specifically in the realm of hypothesis testing in continuous variables. What it means concept...
Software engineering for Machine Learning – Part III: Production-is-exploration Oct 31, 2022 / 6 minutes readThis 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 Oct 17, 2022 / 5 minutes readThis 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 Oct 3, 2022 / 5 minutes readMachine 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 Oct 17, 2017 / 4 minutes readWe 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 May 26, 2017 / 5 minutes readWe 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 Jul 11, 2016 / 5 minutes readToo 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...
Molecular Physics: Hartree-Fock and Configurations Interaction May 30, 2016 / less than 1 minute readExercises and solutions in Quantum Chemistry
WTPC: A Case for Software Carpentry Apr 28, 2016 / 3 minutes readWe 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...
Calculation of the structure factor in computer simulations Apr 22, 2016 / 6 minutes readFormal definition of the structure factor