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Link: Chollet on limitations of deep learning
Francois Chollet: The limitations of Deep Learning. (17 July 2017.)
Chollet has an insightful geometric explanation about internal workings of DL I had not fully internalized:
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[in Finnish] Tekoäly ja lukukäsite, hajanaisia ajatuksia
Ajatuksia koskien Vadim Kulikovin tekstiä Voiko kone oppia ihmisen abstraktia ajattelua?
(NB. Some scattered thoughts in Finnish concerning blog post I read.)
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Unsorted mathematical (or otherwise technical) links, June 2017: Numba, Julia, NNs
A monthly collection of random links and commentary, now split to two parts: math/tech-heavy (this post) and separate post for less-technical items. Time frame covered: the past June and older items.
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Links: Concerning Momentum Methods [Goh]
Main link content: Gabriel Goh, 2017. “Why Momentum Really Works”.
(What momentum? This momentum.) Content warning: scattered thoughts.
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Unsorted not-so-mathematical links, June 2017: Train Stations, Cybernetics in USSR, Yellow Printer Dots
A monthly collection of random links and commentary, now split to two parts: math and tech-heavy and less-mathematical (the one you are reading now). This post covers approx the past June.
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Link: Michael Nielsen on Cognitive Interfaces (2016) + comments
Another topic for today: Thought as a Technology, a fascinating article by M. Nielsen. Initially I was going to just throw it in the monthly kitchen sink of the links post with a short comment, but soon I noticed that my “short comment” was already several hundred words long…
(Unfortunately I can’t promise this scattered collection of ideas is entertaining or even readable, but who reads this blog besides myself anyway.)
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Link, Paper: Measuring Gerrymandering with MCMC Electoral Redistricting
Bangia et al. 2017. “Redistricting: Drawing the Line”. Arxiv preprint: arXiv:1704.03360 [stat.AP].
Fun application of MCMC methods!
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Link: Fields Medalist Cédric Villani elected to the French parliament, Q+A for *Science*
Pain, Elisabeth: “Q&A: Why a top mathematician has joined Emmanuel Macron’s revolution”, Science, Jun. 19, 2017.
Who is Villani, anyway? …
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Book review [FI]: Vaellusretkiä matematiikkaan
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Unsorted links, May 2017: Level of Detail of Reality, Ted Chiang and Jupiter
A monthly collection of random links and commentary. This one corresponds to the past May.