<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Nima Hejazi</title><description>Personal site for hiring and personal branding.</description><link>https://nimahejazi.me/</link><item><title>Building toolmaking.net: A Home for Small, Sharp Tools</title><link>https://nimahejazi.me/blog/building-toolmaking-net/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nimahejazi.me/blog/building-toolmaking-net/</guid><description>Why I launched toolmaking.net, a single home for the free, open source utilities I build, starting with ask and a video compressor.</description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Is Vibe Coding Enough to Build and Maintain Software?</title><link>https://nimahejazi.me/blog/is-vibe-coding-enough/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nimahejazi.me/blog/is-vibe-coding-enough/</guid><description>Vibe coding is a fantastic way to prototype and play, but keeping software alive long term takes real engineering discipline. 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A Statistical Approach to Measuring Performance</title><link>https://nimahejazi.me/blog/is-your-ad-really-working-a-statistical-approach-to-measuring-performance/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nimahejazi.me/blog/is-your-ad-really-working-a-statistical-approach-to-measuring-performance/</guid><description>Clicks alone don&apos;t prove an ad works. A statistical approach: multi-touch attribution, A/B testing, and the cost-profit-ROI math behind ad performance.</description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>From Sample to Population: A Quick Guide to Confidence Intervals with R</title><link>https://nimahejazi.me/blog/from-sample-to-population-a-quick-guide-to-confidence-intervals-with-r/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nimahejazi.me/blog/from-sample-to-population-a-quick-guide-to-confidence-intervals-with-r/</guid><description>How to estimate a population mean from a sample and build a confidence interval in R, step by step and with the built-in t.test function.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Alpha, Beta, and the Cost of Wrong Decisions in Business Analytics</title><link>https://nimahejazi.me/blog/alpha-beta-and-the-cost-of-wrong-decisions-in-business-analytics/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nimahejazi.me/blog/alpha-beta-and-the-cost-of-wrong-decisions-in-business-analytics/</guid><description>Every business decision is a bet under uncertainty. A look at Type I and Type II errors, the role of significance level, and what statistical power really costs.</description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Understanding Standard Error (and How It Differs from Standard Deviation)</title><link>https://nimahejazi.me/blog/understanding-standard-error-and-how-it-differs-from-standard-deviation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nimahejazi.me/blog/understanding-standard-error-and-how-it-differs-from-standard-deviation/</guid><description>Standard deviation measures spread in your data; standard error measures how much a sample statistic would vary. A plain-English distinction with examples.</description><pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sample Distribution and Sampling Distribution; Are They the Same?</title><link>https://nimahejazi.me/blog/sample-distribution-and-sampling-distribution-are-they-the-same/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nimahejazi.me/blog/sample-distribution-and-sampling-distribution-are-they-the-same/</guid><description>Sample distribution and sampling distribution sound alike but describe different things. One is the spread of your data; the other is the spread of a statistic across samples.</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why Probability Is About Theoretical Outcomes, Not Guarantees</title><link>https://nimahejazi.me/blog/why-probability-is-about-theoretical-outcomes-not-guarantees/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nimahejazi.me/blog/why-probability-is-about-theoretical-outcomes-not-guarantees/</guid><description>A binomial distribution predicts what should happen over infinite repetitions, not what will happen in your next few trials. A coin-flipping experiment shows why.</description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Permutations and Combinations in Everyday Life</title><link>https://nimahejazi.me/blog/permutations-and-combinations-in-everyday-life/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nimahejazi.me/blog/permutations-and-combinations-in-everyday-life/</guid><description>A plain-English tour of permutations and combinations, and how counting with and without order shows up in locks, outfits, and words.</description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Building PropertySpot: A Laravel Property Listing Platform</title><link>https://nimahejazi.me/blog/building-propertyspot/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nimahejazi.me/blog/building-propertyspot/</guid><description>How I built PropertySpot on Laravel 8.x and MySQL, containerized with Docker, shipped through a Jenkins pipeline, with role-based auth, Stripe payments, and email verification.</description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>