luca
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ML researcher, interested in math and probabilistic machine reasoning.
luca
"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
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
The Fisher information matrix is simply the Hessian of KL divergence at the point where two distributions are equal.
Metacademy - Differential geometry for machine learning
This is so good.
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.
Dread accompanies me through life but it is not without consolation | Aeon Essays
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