# Blog

# 18/01/21 - Predicting T20 Cricket Matches With a Ball Simulation Model

This is a deep dive into a prediction model/simulator for T20 cricket matches that I built. If you aren't a nerd or a cricket nuffie there's really nothing here for you.

# 21/11/20 - Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously

I recently had a chat with the great Noam Chomsky about linguistics, artificial neural networks and moral relativism. This is a summary of our discussion.

# 18/10/20 - How And Why To Learn Bayesian Inference

Buyer Beware: This article is only for massive dorks. Some fatherly advice on why to learn Bayesian Inference and the best resources to help you do so.

# 02/09/20 - What COVID-19 Can Teach Us About Data Science

A bit of an explainer on the relationship between COVID-19 and data. I debunk some of the fallacious arguments put forward by cranks like Dr Phil and show why we can't expect COVID-19 predictive models to perform as well as Netflix's recommendation engine.

# 14/08/20 - Robby The Robot

Write up of a Genetic Algorithm I implemented called Robby the Robot (including code). The example comes from Melanie Mitchell's book "Complexity: A Guided Tour".