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jmount

Data Scientist and trainer at Win Vector LLC. One of the authors of Practical Data Science with R.

More on Parameterized Jupyter

I’d like to share a great new feature in the wvpy package (available at PyPi). This package is useful in converting Jupiter notebooks to/from python, and also in rendering many parameterized notebooks. The idea is to make Jupyter notebook easier to use in production. The latest feature is an extension […]

List Coloring Latin Squares

(Still on my math streak.) 1994 had an exciting moment when Fred Galvin solved the 1979 Jeff Dinitz conjecture on list-coloring Latin squares. Latin squares are a simple predecessor to puzzles such as Soduko. A Latin square is an n by n grid of the integers 0 through n-1 (called […]

Kelly Thorp Betting

I demonstrate a Kelly/Thorp betting system for the simple card game of guessing if the next card from a standard deck is red or black. I have a video of the play here. And a derivation of the betting strategy in R is here. A derivation of the proof you […]