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[latexpage] 本文之中文翻譯在此 Prerequisites Trignometry Basics – Sine & CosineTrigonometry Basics – Tangent, Triangles, And CannonballsInverse Trigonometric Functions, Slope Angles, And Facing Objects Overview The dot product is a simple yet extremely useful mathematical tool. It encodes the relationship between two vectors'…
I recently wanted to take a hierarchy of items and draw them in a nice tree structure. For example, a Family Tree. At the time, I thought “This will be easy, I’ll just Google for an alg…
by Carles Gelada and Jacob Buckman WARNING: This is an old version of this blogpost, and if you are a Bayesian, it might make you angry. Click here for an updated post with the same content. Context: About a month ago Carles asserted on Twitter that Bayesian Neural Networks make...
Inspired by James McKee’s Trinity Hall prime, physics researcher Gilles Esposito-Farese (of the self-descriptive pangram) has worked out that this 2,258-digit prime number: 53084469288402965415857953902888840109250315594591772197851275320 59910735745658243457138160802170063601085186072703319516241231606…
The Case for Bayesian Deep Learning Andrew Gordon Wilson Abstract Bayesian inference is especially compelling for deep neural networks. The key distinguishing property of a Bayesian approach is margin
The Doomsday Algorithm gives the day of the week for any date (and you can do it in your head)
Knights in chess move in an L-shape: 2 squares in one direction and 1 square perpendicular. But what if it didn't have to be like that?
Blog of Raph Levien.
I’m a stock market enthusiast 📈, so lately I have spent my spare time on the topic of stock option pricing, and I was curious to find out whether or not I could build a script that accurately reflected real market option prices. It turns out I came close, and learned a lot along the way, which I share in this article.
Has it outlasted the ability to estimate when? Composite of src1, src2 Ryohei Hisano and Didier Sornette wrote in 2012 a paper titled, “On the distribution of time-to-proof of mathematical co…
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I’ve been playing a lot of Enter The Gungeon recently. It’s a great, brutally hard, twin stick bullet hell that reminded me a lot of Binding of Isaac. But as I’ve been playing it …
In software, you frequently need to check whether some objects is in a set. For example, you might have a list of forbidden Web addresses. As someone enters a new Web address, you may want to check whether it is part of your black list. Or maybe you have a large list of already used … Continue reading Xor Filters…
Eller's algorithm creates 'perfect' mazes, having only a single path between any two cells, one row at a time. The algorithm itself is incredibly fast, and far more memory efficient than other popular algorithms (such as Prim's and Kruskal's) requiring storage proportional to only a single row. This makes it possible…
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Jordan Santell, focusing on open web engineering, immersive web, WebXR, WebGL, JavaScript, open source, open standards, and all things weird web.
We all lost a great person Cropped from Mexican NotiCyTI obit Héctor Garcia-Molina died just before Thanksgiving. He was a computer scientist and Professor in both the Departments of Computer Scien…
My problem is not just with the methods—although I do have problems with the method—but also with the ideology.
Better visual explanations of information theoretic quantities like entropy and mutual information using I-diagrams. Based on Raymond W. Yeung's "A new outlook on Shannon's information measures" paper from 1991.
A year ago today I self-published “A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics” (PIM). In this short note I want to describe the success it’s had, summarize the complaints of some readers and the praise of others, and outline what’s next. Since publication PIM has sold over 11,000 copies. A rough chart showing the…
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By Michael Nielsen, November 23, 2019
Solving Logic Puzzles with Prolog
Peter Denton, Stephen Parke, Xining Zhang, and I have just uploaded to the arXiv the short unpublished note “Eigenvectors from eigenvalues”. This note gives two proofs of a general eige…
