luca
@fahrenheit
ML researcher, interested in math and probabilistic machine reasoning.
luca
Maria
maria.cloudHowever, there’s a third way to think about the first moment, and it’s the one that I think is most useful for understanding moments generally: the first moment tells us how far away from the origin the center of mass is. I like this interpretation because it is analogous to a moment arm in mechanics, which is the length of an arm between an axis... See more
Understanding Moments
"Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things."
- Ray Bradbury
Linear algebra usually has two sides to explore: the algebraic interpretation and the geometric intuition. Usually the latter is much more useful to get a feel for things.
The risk in designing any personal knowledge system lies in the overemphasise of the acquisition system to the detriment of the review system. Acquisition can masquerade as work, but collecting without review is pseudo-work.
Differential geometry is all about constructing things which are independent of the representation
Metacademy - Differential geometry for machine learning
