Odds Ratios R Odd

Odds Ratios R Odd

I received a question about interpreting the exponentiated coefficient of a logistic regression (with a logit link). I don’t usually try to understand the coefficients in terms of odds, because I find them unintuitive. And I never really explored why I found them unintuitive until I was asked about them.

Updating this website (again)

Updating this website (again)
I’ve done it! Finally got my website all sorted. TLDR: RTFM. The config section of the docs had the answer the whole time; needed to set config to point to my subdirectory instead of the root. Clear your cache, and the web server’s cache. Band-aid is to open your browser’s network section of the dev tools and disable cache, which apparently also has the effect of requesting fresh content from the web server as well.

Updating this website

Updating this website
Finally got around to updating this dang website. I’m using straight Hugo, built on a WSL Ubuntu, and rsync’d over to my website (why is rsync on Windows so hard?). I might use quarto going forward to render any notebooks I have. For R and python I’m using micromamba to manage installation and environments. Formerly I’d relied on the R package blogdown to create the website; however, I felt that it abstracted just a bit too much of the process away, I wanted to be more involved in maintaining hugo settings and understanding the system a little better.

My Fish Twitch

My Fish Twitch
Twitch was at least 12 years old, perhaps as old as 14. Twitch was a centerpiece at my cousin’s wedding – a Chinese wedding – in New York City. Goldfish symbolize wealth, abundance, and fertility in Chinese culture. According to wikipedia, Jinyu (金鱼, the word for a goldfish) is a homophone for “gold in abundance”; therefore, they are perceived as suitable gifts for wedding. Facebook tells me the wedding was in 2011, but for some reason I seem to remember it being earlier.

Moonlander ZSA Ergonomic Keyboard – Review

Moonlander ZSA Ergonomic Keyboard -- Review
Moonlander ZSA Review I bought this thing in late October, a few days after I’d had some pain in my wrist at work. This thing comes direct from Taiwan (free shipping!), and the wait was rather agonizing, checking the tracking every 10 minutes or so. At about $375, this is not a budget keyboard by any means, but I figured the health benefits avoiding wrist injury was worth the price tag.