Meta-heuristic optimization
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johnmcgaughey255
- Mar 21, 2022
- 6 min
Dimensionality reduction and model interpretability
I would say that the main purpose of communication is to give a universal understanding of abstract ideas. An abstraction is, for my...
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johnmcgaughey255
- Mar 21, 2022
- 5 min
Introduction to convex and non-convex optimization problems
A convex set is a subset of a Euclidian (more specifically an Affine space), one in which the line between any two points in that subset...
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johnmcgaughey255
- Feb 21, 2022
- 7 min
Objective functions and action distributions in MARL
One thing that kind of goes unquestioned in the deep learning and reinforcement learning community is an agent having a fixed...
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johnmcgaughey255
- Feb 16, 2022
- 3 min
Should we model the world to predict the future?
We are taught to study the way things behave as a function of time. We organize our days by the hours, we write our functions with...
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johnmcgaughey255
- Jan 30, 2022
- 3 min
The fundamental Problem with Supervised Learning
The fundamental problem with supervised learning is that the learning of the optimal latent representation of the input data and the...
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johnmcgaughey255
- Jan 5, 2022
- 5 min
Probabilistic Inference Tasks for Latent Variable Models
I think it is important to realize that before anything else, deep learning and computer science are truly mathematical fields of study....
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johnmcgaughey255
- Nov 1, 2021
- 4 min
Properties of prevailing models
Does the sun go around the earth or does the earth go around the sun? You would surely answer that the earth goes around the sun - but...
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johnmcgaughey255
- Oct 25, 2021
- 4 min
Everything has a will to continue continuing.
In transportation engineering, there is a phenomenon called user equilibrium. As engineers, we will change a transportation structure in...
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johnmcgaughey255
- Oct 18, 2021
- 2 min
The beauty of meaninglessness
Meaninglessness is the most neutral thing there is, the word has no negative or positive connotation. Meaning is a really fundamental...
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johnmcgaughey255
- Oct 13, 2021
- 4 min
Where is the objectivity?
I’ve been meditating a lot recently, it has really calmed my mind and allowed me to think about things in a different way. I have also...
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johnmcgaughey255
- Sep 15, 2021
- 6 min
Self-competitive policy philosophical motivation
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could just do whatever we wanted all of the time with no future consequences. Get as drunk as you want and...
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johnmcgaughey255
- Sep 4, 2021
- 5 min
Traffic Lights
Cop lights, flashlights, spotlights, strobe lights, street lights… out of all of the lights we could talk about today I want to focus on...
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johnmcgaughey255
- Jun 22, 2021
- 7 min
Unsupervised learning part 2
One of the most popular uses for a standard autoencoder is for data compression. If I have a picture of a whale on my phone and I want to...
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johnmcgaughey255
- Jun 16, 2021
- 4 min
Unsupervised learning
Auto-encoders use two features. The first is the reconstruction element, which ensures that the data in an encoded state is still...
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johnmcgaughey255
- May 3, 2021
- 5 min
Critiquing beyond human understanding
One of my main goals is to get machines to look at the world like a human. I make inferences about how we think about things from our...
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johnmcgaughey255
- Apr 12, 2021
- 1 min
Final project is done!
I feel great about finishing my final project, so releaving, and just looking at my paper I feel proud of myself for accomplishing this....
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johnmcgaughey255
- Apr 5, 2021
- 2 min
Looking ahead
Looking ahead in the context of my future being purely a programmer, it honestly seems pretty dreary. I can’t see myself happy coding and...
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johnmcgaughey255
- Mar 29, 2021
- 3 min
Mental health
I don't really constrain myself to talking about or thinking about things specific to computer sceince, but somehow it always drifts back...
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johnmcgaughey255
- Mar 22, 2021
- 3 min
Seeing the world through a programmer's perspective
I think that to some extent or another, we are indeed programmed. From the celestial forces behind evolution to the way your parents...
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