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About me and the blog

Reading in 2025

What I am reading in 2025.

Going Spectral

Going Spectral: Why and how to implement spectral pricing challenges the constant cost of capital…

The Class of Bar-Lev–Enis–Tweedie Family Distributions

exponential family

The class of power-variance family distributions jointly discovered by Bar-Lev and Enis, and…

Inverting Characteristic Functions Using FFTs

How to use FFTs to invert the characteristic function of a probability distribution.

PIR Book Examples in Aggregate

Python code to recreate exhibits from Pricing Insurance Risk book.

Better Markdown Snippets

Pithier markdown tips—just the things I forget…

Drawing with MidJourney

Learning to use MidJoureny effectively.

Stable Distributions

Tail and body behavior of stable distributions.

Fibonacci Chest—woodwork project No. 3

An open frame chest with an oak frame, top, drawer runners and pulls, built in 2004. Hard maple…

Bowl Database

This page is searchable database of the 149 bowls I turned between 2010 and 2017. The bowls are…

Reading in 2024

2024: the year of the Very Short Introduction!

English History

English history since the Romans—a short summary.

Why I like Python

I ~~like~~ love Python the language. The libraries are a bonus and the reason I use Python. Here are a…

Classifying and Identifying Trees

Introduction to multipart-post on tree classification and Introduction.