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• July 28, 2020

  Deploy ML Models with Flask and Docker Easily

  In this tutorial, I will show you step-by-step how to build a web application with Flask from a pre-trained toy ML classification model built offline and then containerize the application using Docker. You can find the project page here.Big pictur...

• June 13, 2020

  German Tank Problem Explained

  Recently I came across a podcast talking about an anecdote about statisticians estimating the German monthly tank production numbers during World War II which I found it super interesting. The number of tanks production has been a classified infor...

• June 09, 2020

  Book Review: The Lady Tasting Tea

  Here is the book review on this stimulating book: The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century that I wrote in Chinese almost 10 years ago at the time when I was a college student majoring in Statistics.Hone...

• April 13, 2020

  Summary of Survival Analysis

  There is no better topic than survival in 2020.It has been 6 years since last time I sat at Prof. Richard Cook’s STAT 935: The Analysis of Survival Data class at UWaterloo, struggling with the maximum likelihood function in CoxPH model. Thanks to ...

• November 16, 2019

  Super 在Python中的用法

  经常在别人的code里面看到super，但是一直不太清楚具体的用法，官方的文档非常technical，于是在网上找到一个还不错的资源，终于有了点眉目。这篇post主要是根据我自己的理解重新阐述（翻译）一遍原资源的takeaways以防日后我又忘了的时候可以马上记起来。Super的基本用法先来看这样一个例子。我们想要计算矩形Rectangle和正方形Square的周长和面积。class Rectangle: def __init__(self, length, width): ...