Eric J Ma's Website

I had an epiphany over the week, connecting graphs, programming, and category theory. I might be wrong, but if you're intrigued, come on in and check it out.

On a recent vacation, since we've got nowhere to go, I decided to re-examine how I made notes in my personal and professional lives. The result is a lot of lessons learned into effective notetaking, and me building yet another thing. Curious to see what I learned? Read on!

How do you prevent a headless Linux machine from going to sleep/suspend? I recently learned how to do so :).

Enrico Fermi had a unique way of thinking that I think dovetails nicely with constructing principled priors. Curious? Read on!

I recently arrived at an epiphany: Delivering talks on a topic is an important way to prepare for writing a paper. Intrigued? Read on to learn why.

I found a new free and open source tool for moving data between computers in a secure and fast fashion, called croc. I highly recommend it! Come read on to learn more.

How do you write clean Python code in the year 2020? Check out this latest essay I wrote. Cross-posted from my essays collection.

I recently figured out how to dynamically insert a Binder badge into HTML pages built from Jupyter notebooks, so that users can one-click directly open a Jupyter notebook in the correct conda environment without needing to navigate or build an environment from scratch. Come see how I figured this out!

If df.iterrows() is slow, what then is the alternative? Read on to figure out how to make looping over dataframes 1000X faster :).

I test-drove the Python package pandera this month, and I like its usage paradigm. Come read on to learn how you can incorporate pandera into your workflow!