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dustintran.com
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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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nickcharlton.net
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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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www.yulingyao.com
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| | | | | The myth A few years ago I saw a StackOverflow question (but I cannot find it now): allegedly Andrew Gelman blogged that Bayesian models would not overfit and would only underfit (I also cannot find Andrew's blog post now but I think what he meant by "Bayesian models only underfits" is that you can never fully model the true data process in the population). | |
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gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com
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| | | In this week's New Yorker , Jonah Lehrer shows once again just how hard it is to do good science journalism if you are not yourself a scient... | ||