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Gut instinct

For some reason, I have long thought that a ‘gut check’ is something you do to validate your intuition or ‘gut instinct’. I think my usage has more utility in any case.

Universal Approximation Theorem for Neural Networks

I have been reading background on this for a class I will be teaching at work. Having no background in functional analysis and very limited exposure to topology, the terminology employed and the logic followed by George Cybenko in his 1989 proof of this theorem left me scratching my head. I found, however, a very […]

NYC

May you be spared in your life the indignity of a Brooklyn subway public toilet. (Honestly, that’s public toilets in any metro area…yech)

Somehow, I’ve never seen a photo of a cashew fruit before. It’s one of the oddest-looking fruits.

Dear Texans

Keep cool and hydrate. It’s hot as the dickens out there!

LIVING IN THE DATABASE

Re-watching Log Horizon, season one. Not the worst way to spend an afternoon.

https://arstechnica.com/features/2017/04/the-secret-lives-of-google-raters/ As a software developer, this article is not only sad, but embrassing. What embarasses me is that Google engineers allegedly don’t communicate with raters. If there are even a handful of raters willing to work directly with engineers to make their processes more efficient, then why aren’t they jumping on that?

Internet surveillance and BCI

The coincidence of Elon Musk’s announcement of “Neural Lace” and the FCC rolling back privacy regulations should make people’s hairs stand up on the backs of their necks. In case it isn’t obvious from the unabated personalization and proliferation of networked computing since the ARPANET, the Internet won’t always be a choice. It is only […]