Writing – Sam Vaughan

A Macquarie University Machine Learning masterclass”

machine-learning

statistics

I recently organised a Machine Learning masterclass for the Macquarie Astrophysics department. A collaborator of mine, Professor Benoit Liquet-Weiland from the statistics…

My VS code settings

coding

tools

I’ve been playing around with my VS code settings to make its integration with the IPython terminal a little better. I’ve never really liked Jupyter notebooks, so all of my…

Dashboards and data logging with a Raspberry Pi

raspberry-pi

I recently brought a couple of atmospheric sensors for my Raspberry Pi to measure temperature and air pressure. This is a quick post about how I’ve set everything up to…

Sparse Bayesian Regression

stats

I’ve been reading the excellent blog by Michael Betancourt, who’s an applied statistician (and ex-physicist), for a while. He works on Hamiltonian Monte Carlo and its…

World Cup predictions from a hierarchical Bayesian model

stats

I wrote a simple model to “predict” the outcome of the 2018 FIFA world cup. You can read about it on my Medium page, here

A galaxy lacking dark matter?

galaxies

I wrote a short post about the galaxy NGC 1052–DF2, which was the subject of recent work suggesting that it didn’t have any dark matter. You can read it on medium, here

Neural Networks in Python

stats

code

I recently bought the excellent book Hand-On Machine Learning with SciKitLearn and TensorFlow and decided to write my own simple neural network in python and numpy. Another…