James Dellinger's Homepage

My Recent Work

• Updated CV
• Trade Like Taylor—A tight, 100 page explanation of George Douglass Taylor’s most useful principles for short-term commodity trading.
• How We Sort Matters—Why David Musser’s introsort algorithm is still the best option for decision trees.
• Buying Your First Potentiometer—The right and wrong ways to adjust volume.

Some Appearances

• Chai Time Data Science Podcast—Sanyam Bhutani had me on to discuss Nvidia’s Dali image processing library. We also reviewed the ABCs of image augmentation for training computer vision neural nets.

What's Interesting

• Distant Force—A history of the Teledyne Corporation and its founder, Dr. Henry Singleton. By Dr. George A. Roberts. Learned about it from my friend @zachcaceres.
• RYAN, the aviator—The biography of aerospace entrepreneur T. Claude Ryan. By William Wagner.
• The View From Touffou—David Ogilvy’s 1981 in-house instructional video on advertising. Applicable to many things.