Automation, data, and geoscience — for practitioners who build things.
The county with the highest cancer rate in America is rural. So is the county with the lowest. Both extremes come from the same mechanism, and it isn't pollution or pastoral serenity, it's the law of small numbers. The same mechanism is...
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Every whole-rock analysis sums to 100%. That single fact, which feels like trivial bookkeeping, breaks every Pearson correlation you ever computed on raw oxide percentages. The closure problem...
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Most beginner Python tutorials use Iris flowers, Titanic passengers, or Boston housing prices. There is a reason a lot of geologists bounce off them, and it is not...
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Everyone tells the Abraham Wald airplane story. It's a great story. It is also slightly misleading, because the planes are obviously gone. The version of survivorship bias that...
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Closing the gap between geoscience and computer science is the work I care most about, and the coding piece is where most geologists get stuck. Tutorial hell is...
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