Nikhil Addleman

Applied mathematics, data science, machine learning. Always looking for new puzzles.

I'm a data scientist working on product and marketing analytics at Bayer. I got a PhD at the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences at UC Irvine where I looked at mathematical models in evolutionary game theory and looked at the distribution of religious group sizes across geography.

Here you will find my writings

Check out my latest essay: Vim, initially

Essays

Informal writings exploring various topics:

• Vim, initially
• Understanding Gaussian process regression
• Building an OLS classifier from scratch
• Animated decision tree regression
• Bootstrapped error bands for function estimation
• Generalized additive models and backfitting

Articles

• The Ecology of Religious Groups (prepared for publication) -- Characterizes the distribution of religious denominations, presents some geospatial statistics.
• Chaos in a two-population rock-paper-scissors game (prepared for publication) -- Presents a minimal EGT model with chaotic solutions,