Starting a blog!
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I figured it would be fun to keep a record of all the projects I’m working on in a blog format, so I’ve set up the blog page on my website! You’ll be able to access this page at any time by going to ahl27.com/blog!
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I figured it would be fun to keep a record of all the projects I’m working on in a blog format, so I’ve set up the blog page on my website! You’ll be able to access this page at any time by going to ahl27.com/blog!
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Update: This project has progressed pretty far from this inital sketch. This post describes my first pass at this problem–the final version is quite a bit different. I’ll write another post soon to incorporate those thoughts (will be linked here when done). Original post is below.
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I’ve recently had to implement random forests from scratch in R. This is a much longer post than I normally make, since I’m going to go through all the details of actually implementing one of these models. By “from scratch”, I mean a complete Random Forest prediction model, written in R, with no packages aside from those provided in a base installation.
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First post of 2024! I wanted to take a little bit of time to talk about using C and Fortran in R. I often feel like the documentation for using C is a little tough to find, and finding out how to call Fortran from R is even harder. Is it even worth it, though? Should you be using Fortran in your R code? And if you could write C, why would you bother with Fortran? Let’s look through them step by step, using two common sorting algorithms (quicksort and mergesort) as examples.
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I’ve always enjoyed learning about different programming languages. Different languages come with different specialties, paradigms, and constraints. As said in a recent talk at Strange Loop, the languages we know affect how we think about and approach problems.