Stephen Malina

This is my blog. There are many others like it but this one is mine.

My favorite random internet writing - A tier list

As someone who has and continues to derive tremendous value from writing on the internet, I’ve recently felt an urge to share some of …

For the past two years, my friends have had a tradition of making predictions and scoring them at the end of the year. This year, I decided …

Previously: Upcoming Maniac Week. Summary # Inspired by Nick Winter, Bethany Soule, Danny Reeves, Brent Yorgey, and Alex Strick, I undertook …

Abstract # Guy on internet decides to follow lead of other people on internet and pre-commits to working much more than usual . Plans to …

Note: Ignore the weird Markdown formatting, it’s because I copied this from the blog source code. Inspiration: Understanding by Nabeel …

This semester, I had the pleasure of taking a course on Causal Inference with Professor Elias Bareinboim, one of Judea Pearl’s former …

Intro / Motivation # I know I’m a walking millenial trope, but I’m starting a deliberate experiment to dramatically reduce my …

Attention conservation notice: Narrow target audience - will only make sense to people somewhat familiar with causal inference who …

Abstract # I conducted a two-week blinded, randomized experiment to test whether drinking regular vs. decaf coffee had a detectable effect …

Selected Exercises # 1. Suppose we play a game where we start with $ c $ dollars. On each play of the game you either double or halve your …

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