[HN Gopher] Interview with John Cook: mathematical consultant
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       Interview with John Cook: mathematical consultant
        
       Author : jgamman
       Score  : 54 points
       Date   : 2022-06-28 20:11 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | abhgh wrote:
       | Highly recommend his blog [1] - where he often writes bite-sized
       | math-y articles. I have personally benefited from it; I was
       | looking for ways to sample quickly from a mixture of Beta
       | distributions when I stumbled upon his post on the _Kumaraswamy
       | distribution_ [2], which takes on Beta-like shapes but has a
       | closed form expression for the cumulative distribution function
       | (CDF). The latter property makes generating samples from it
       | convenient and fast.
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       | [1] https://www.johndcook.com/blog/
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       | [2] https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/11/24/kumaraswamy-
       | distri...
        
         | jofer wrote:
         | In addition to being a great resource on mathematics and
         | scientific computing in general, if you're working in the
         | scientific python ecosystem, his blog (and assorted similar
         | content on twitter/etc) is a must-read. There's often a lot of
         | great scientific python content there too.
        
       | chmaynard wrote:
       | John D. Cook seems like the type of person who would inevitably
       | rise to the top of their chosen profession, regardless of which
       | path they took to get there. He is very intelligent, creative,
       | and determined to do things his own way.
        
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