Eric J Ma's Website

Today I learned about the definition of the term "probability simplex". Here's what it is.

Nudges are fascinating, useful, and in some cases, potentially life-saving. I recently read a paper that talked about life-saving nudges and reflected on what made these nudges effective.

I learned a new thing: how to enable Netlify site preview URLs to be commented back on a PR thread! A story about how the collective intellect of the world is such a wonderful resource to query.

Recently, I saw Datasette resurface on my Twitter feed, and I started doing a deep dive into it once again. The work that Simon Willison, author of Datasette, has done -- it is amazing! Here's what I learned test-driving it once again.

Once in a while, I make it a practice to hack on my resume. The goal isn't explicitly to keep it relevant, though. Instead, I use it as an excuse to practice CSS. The result is something I'm pretty pleased with. Come read about how I did it!

I've been working on revamping the nxviz API to much more closely align with the grammar of graphics' principles and other data visualization best practices. Come check out the ideas backing the API revamp!

What are phony targets in Makefiles? Or have you not heard of them before? Here's a short post documenting a minimal example of what phony targets are.

In which I share some resources on MLOps and ML Engineering.

If you're having problems with tmux, zsh, and your PATH environment variable like I did, learn from my experience: the interwebs gave me a way to get everything to play nicely.

Some of my early impressions using the M1 MacBook Air for data science purposes.