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My name is Tony Chen, and I’m currently a junior at Boston College, studying psychology, math and computer science, and I’m blogging about my learning process through the fields of statistics and machine learning. Since I believe that the best way to learn something is to teach it to someone else, its my hope that writing about these topics will help me gain a more complete understanding of them, since the majority of my knowledge is self taught. In addition, starting this blog will hopefully motivate me to learn more (I have a terrible habit of starting things and leaving them halfway through).

As such, this blog is mainly for my sake, although I hope I didn’t discourage you from reading further. Most of the posts will be shamelessly ripped from some other resource, and so I’ll include references whenever possible. I intend for each post to serve as a notebook of sorts, each one consisting of an exploration/introduction to some self contained topic.

With all that said, lets get started! I should also note that the aesthetics of this blog was influenced heavily by Dustin Tran’s blog and NIPS formatting.