In which I'm forced to deal with TransUnion Canada's website because I'm their customer whether I like it or not.

I'm writing this post just in case the following chain of extremely improbable events take place: a) someone has read one of the articles I published in my prior life as an academic; b) wants to get in contact with me to ask something or make a comment; c) has …

It never had too many subscribers, but for those of you that are still there, please beware that the feed at shared.xml has stopped updating. As I started a Mastodon account not long ago, I'll share interesting links and articles there instead. Here's my account, and if you prefer …

The number of employees let go today from this blog is exactly 0.

As comments are not allowed, the moderation team (me) is still working as hard as yesterday, at least.

You can receive a real time feed here. You can send me your DMs with the information you'll fine …

At any given point in time, thousands of people are thinking whether it's worth it pursuing a career in academia.

I've created this simple page to help them decide. It doesn't give too many details, but some decisions should be quite clear.

It goes like this (excerpted):

Are your production models too big? Would you be interested in getting the same performance out of your LightGBM/XGBoost/Random Forest models but with 80% fewer features/explanatory variables?

Kindly click to respond: Yes Maybe No

We're approaching what I'd expect to read in …

This post was also sent to /r/keyboards if you're interested in the discussion. Link.

Like a lot of people, I had to put together a small office at home come March 2020. While I'm quite comfortable now, my main issue is that my keyboard is a regular one, a …

I've just bought a Keychron keyboard. The move from a classical membrane keyboard to a mechanical one is not being as straightforward as I thought, but I like that I don't have a numerical keypad anymore, which was taking up precious space on my desktop. I also think it makes …

English is my second language, which will be obvious to readers of this page because sometimes I screw up. It is what it is.

There are people out there that think that the cryptospace is something completely useless, but I must thank it publicly for teaching me things about English …

The entire plot is generated by an R script that you can found here. Any suggestions (you can find my e-mail address on the "about" page) are welcome.

There's a secondary plot here that displays the raw number of postings (total and remote).

Caveats, and why this is just an …