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    Matt Bracher-Smith

    Matt Bracher-Smith

    Husband and father by day. And also by night. Heroic, handsome, selfless, humble. I’ve been called many things. Unfortunately none of them are listed here. I write about things and stuff. I’m trying to specialise a bit, so I might just write about things.

    • Cardiff, UK
    • GitHub

    Blog

    • Weekly review 2
    • Data Engineering by Example
    • Weekly review 1
    • Immortal Time Bias
    • Helper functions for profiling
    • Book Club: Fundamentals of Data Engineering (Chapter 1)
    • SQL Teething Problems
    • I made a mistake
    • Book Club: High Performance Python (Chapter 1)
    • On writing styles in scientific publishing
    • Using GPUs in an HPC setting
    • Most aren't even useful
    • How to learn industry things as an academic
    • Just stick it in a YAML
    • Memory requests in HPC systems
    • Just showing up
    • On consistency
    • Process over product
    • The One Last Job Fallacy
    • Why you should ignore everyone and use Duolingo to start Mandarin
    • The case against assigning probabilities to existential risk
    • Starting starting
    • Adjusting for base rates
    • My thesis was published!
    • Starting matplotlib
    • Beta Regression in Python
    • 100 days of blogging
    • First post test
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