Blog

Welcome to my blog. I write mostly about:

statistics, with a focus on Bayesian statistics, variational inference and theory.
typesetting documents with Quarto and alternatives.
programming, mostly in Python.

Aligning a DICOM to a NIFTI, pixel-by-pixel

random

I have struggled at work to find how to align pixels. These pixels are particuarly vexing: they came from a DICOM file or a NIFTI file, which are both formats with awful documentation. If this helps a single person deal with this issue, then this post as reached its goal.

Installing spotify’s annoy on a Windows machine

python

Spotify has shared the annoy library for nearest-neighbor calculations. However, trying to install it on Windows can give cryptic errors if python does not have access to the latest C compiler. In this post, I tell you how to fix this issue.

Configuring a Quarto website

quarto

Setting up a Quarto website is not trivial. In this post, I discuss how to setup the _quarto.yml configuration file optimally.

Styling a Quarto blog.

quarto

github pages

Customizing a website is fun and interesting. Let’s learn how to tweak the appearance of a Quarto website to make it our own.

Don’t use Latex: Quarto is better!

typesetting

quarto

latex

Latex is the defacto standard typesetting tool in large fractions of the academic world, but can we do better? Now that Quarto is around, the answer is yes!

github pages setup for this website

quarto

github pages

Setting up a Quarto website is not trivial. Here is my setup to publish a single github repository using the www.gandi.net DNS.

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Welcome to my blog.
I write mostly about:

- statistics, with a focus on Bayesian statistics, variational inference and theory.
- typesetting documents with Quarto and alternatives.
- programming, mostly in Python.