Hello! I’m George …but on the internet, I also go by eigenfoo (for data, software and other technical stuff) and loplop (for crosswords and other games). I work at Flatiron Health, where I use machine learning on real-world patient data to accelerate cancer research. I like natural language processing, Bayesian…
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I get confused with tensor computation libraries (or computational graph libraries, or symbolic algebra libraries, or whatever they’re marketing themselves as these days). I was first introduced to PyTorch and TensorFlow and, having no other reference, thought they were prototypical examples of tensor computation…
This is the first of a two-part series about Bayesian bandit algorithms. Check out the second post here. Let’s talk about Bayesianism. It’s developed a reputation (not entirely justified, but not entirely unjustified either) for being too mathematically sophisticated or too computationally intensive to work at scale…