William Morgan

Hello, I'm William, available via SMTP and XMPP at this domain with the username "wmorgan".

I live in the greater Boston area.

I blog.

I read other people's blogs.

I have a thing about closed platforms. But as a bit of self-indulgence, I tweet.

I write code:

• Whisper, my weblog platform.
• Sup, a console-based email client for people with a lot of email.
• Ditz, a distributed issue tracker.
• William's miscellaneous git tools.
• Trollop, a Ruby argument parsing library.
• Ritex, a WebTex (basically LateX math) to MathML converter.
• RubyTorrent, a Ruby BitTorrent library which is current unmaintained and please don't ask me for help with it.

I contribute code to other people's projects. I have had patches accepted into:

• Potion, a virtual machine.
• Ragel, a state machine compiler.
• Rubinius, a Ruby VM.
• Thrift, a cross-lingual RPC that doesn't suck.
• Ferret, the search engine behind Sup.

Statistics/NLP stuff:

• Smoothing users' votes
• Understanding the "Bayesian Average"
• Bayes vs MLE: an estimation theory fairy tale
• Hypothesis Testing for NLP (slides)