<p>There are a few Mathematical Statistics/Statistical Learning Theory blogs I enjoy reading, and wanted to ask on the main site for recommendations of similar theory-focused Statistics/ML blogs, as I thought it may interest not only me but many other visitors of this site.</p>
<p>Basically, I wanted to ask a &quot;big-list type&quot; Community Wiki question along those lines :</p>
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<p>I am looking for  blogs that focus on the mathematical theory of Statistics and Machine Learning, ideally at a research or advanced level.<br />
The blog doesn't have to be solely about these topics but ideally most of the posts would be exposing the mathematical theory of an idea/concept/algorithm that is either directly or closely related to them. Here are two examples of what I'm looking for (<strong>Disclaimer : I have no affiliation with any of these people</strong>):</p>
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<li><a href="http://gregorygundersen.com/blog/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Gregory Gundersen's blog</a> which neatly presents the theory of many well-known algorithms and results in Statistics, such as Conjugate Gradient Descent, Ordinary Least Squares, Hidden Markov Models... Some of the posts contain illustration with available source code</li>
<li><a href="https://francisbach.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Francis Bach's Machine Learning Research blog</a> which introduces some of his research topics and results in a more accessible way than reading his papers. There are many excellent in-depth writings about kernel methods, optimization algorithms for Machine Learning and general Statistical Learning Theory.</li>
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<p>Please limit your answer to less than 2-3 links and provide a short description for each blog, as above.</p>
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<p>Before posting this question, I had concerns about it possibly violating some guidelines related to spam, self-promotion, conflict of interest or something related. I couldn't figure out if were the case by reading the FAQ, so I wanted to ask about it on meta first.</p>
<p>The thing is, as I looked to see if similar questions had been asked before, I found these two similar questions : <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/29386/which-machine-learning-blog-do-you-recommend">Which Machine Learning blog do you recommend ?</a> and <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/114/what-statistical-blogs-would-you-recommend">What Statistical blogs would you recommend ?</a> which have been closed as <strong>off-topic</strong>, and the reason is not clear to me.</p>
<p>So I want to know : Why have these two questions been closed ? Would my question count as off-topic and be closed as well ? If so, why, and is there any way I can salvage it ?</p>
<p>Thanks for your time.</p>
