likely llc

So this one’s an experiment. I haven’t gone through this code, but I’m wondering if I throw some links of the source up here, I’ll get more hits, and thus increase the chances I can expand my business.

I’ve long been a follower of Professor Andrew Gelman’s blog, but more his text books, research articles and related software, and I discovered this on his website:

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/11/30/sermet-pekins-open-source-project-that-discovers-blogs-through-recursive-network-exploration/

It’s an open source software project that connects blogs via a network. Some of the (other) Stan developers work in the statistical/quantitative software consulting realm. Daniel Lee does, and I asked him how to develops connections, and he mentioned it’s pretty much all through professional network connections. When I was first starting out, to practice Bayesian modeling, get my C++ and software dev chops together, he would review some of my code and pass it back to me until I had something mergable, and give me pointers on C++. Thanks Daniel, you didn’t have to do this. Retrospectively, this was extremely helpful for my career.

Here’s a link to the github repo, for those of us that like to contribute to open source software projects.

https://github.com/SermetPekin/rss-discovery-engine

I’m not active on the Stan development team anymore, the project lifecycle was over and I was working on my masters, taking paid consulting contracts and started working for SAS.

But yeah, to anyone getting started in the programming realm, contributing to an open source software (OSS) project is highly recommended. More so than a coursera course, although they can be combined. Why? You’re working with a team of experienced developers that will review your code, reject it if it doesn’t work, you’re learning version control, integrating multiple programming languages, you have a product to put on your CV and you can hop onto another project much faster.

Anyway I don’t read Andrew’s blog anymore but every time I look back, I’m like, “this guy still does this every day?” It’s good for a laugh once in a while.

And may be if I link my own website on my website, some text parser will get it, and it will appear more often in the algorithm, so here’s a link to my own website.

https://likelyllc.com/

But anyway…