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One aspect I always enjoy about machine learning is that questions often go back to the basics. The field essentially goes into an existential crisis every dozen years-rethinking our tools and asking foundational questions such as "why neural networks" or "why generative models".1 This was a theme in my conversations during NIPS 2016 last week, where a frequent topic was on the advantages of a Bayesian perspective to machine learning. Not surprisingly, this appeared as a big discussion point during the p...
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The question that's prior to all philosophy is the distinction between ethics and morality. The corresponding technical issue for theory is the distinction between chromaticity and chrematistics. The word "chromaticity" is meant to evoke, on the one level, the "chromatic aberration" view of anomaly previously put forward. Photographic lenses and sensors exhibit chromatic aberrations when...
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Long Way Down was a good series. Back in 2007, Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman set out on a motorcycle trip from John OGroats to Cape Town. I just finished reading the accompanying book, thats been on my book shelf for quite a while.
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Larry MacDougall released another book in his Redwall-esque fantasy series, Gwelf last month. This one is called Gwelf: Into the Hinterlands...
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