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Quantum leap
The world is not classical in the sense of being continuous and deterministic. In fact, the opposite is the nature of the cosmos. Energy...
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Mar 1, 20214 min read
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Hierarchical structures pt. 1
Imagine a string, and at the end of the string are two different strings, and at the ends of those two different stings, there are two...
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Feb 8, 20215 min read
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discretization
We discretize simply to approximate functions. A multi-layer perceptron is an exquisite example of this. Approximating a phenomenon using...
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Jan 25, 20212 min read
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Exploitation and exploration
We should explore our natural world, but at what point do we exploit the strategies we have learned in exchange for the exploration....
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Jan 25, 20212 min read
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Tweaking the black box
The convolutional neural network's task is to learn kernel convolutions of some image in order to build up abstracted patterns according...
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Jan 13, 20215 min read
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Subsequent preferences
Let us train a convolutional neural network to classify certain bugs. It is sufficient to pass an image through a CNN and back propagate...
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Jan 7, 20212 min read
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Pareidolia
"When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have the answer to...
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Jan 5, 20214 min read
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Disentangled Variational Autoencoders
One of the main purposes of even creating an artificial intelligence, or a machine learning program is to predict. We try to predict...
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Dec 13, 20203 min read
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Neural interpretation and psychedelics
From the Amanita Muscaria found in damp forests in the northern hemisphere to the Ayahuasca drink, rich with dimethyltryptamine (DMT),...
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Dec 1, 20203 min read
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A Shift in Perspective
Sometimes all we need in life is a different perspective, a new angle from which we can view a problem. Once we see a phenomenon in a...
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Nov 16, 20203 min read
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Eyesight to the blind
What are eyes but a mechanism of nature to see nature, in fact that is not really the eye is it. The brain perceives, by any definition...
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Nov 13, 20204 min read
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boundaries and fear
Developing any machine learning program, as the creator, you need to define specific boundaries for the domain and range to function in....
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Nov 3, 20205 min read
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Mathematics and learning
Was mathematics discovered or invented? Think deeply about it, did we create new mathematics or did we discover something that was...
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Oct 26, 20205 min read
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Neuroendocrinology and Programming
One of the many things we do when we are alive is create simplified explanations for very complex things. We create structure out of...
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Oct 19, 20203 min read
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Exponentiality; ANI to AGI to ASI
Our creations as humans have served to help us flow more easily through life. Think back to some of our first inventions: fire, stairs,...
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Oct 13, 20204 min read
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Fluency and natural language processing
Natural language processing (NLP) is one of the leading technologies in AI. You can see its implantation in a very broad spectrum of...
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Oct 5, 20203 min read
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Generative models and competition
In my last blog post about deep learning I discussed the importance of mimicking nature in our pursuit of deep learning perfection. Let...
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Sep 22, 20204 min read
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Deep learning learning
Deep networks use hidden layers, very loosely analogous to how our brains use abstraction in thought. The deep learning model was thought...
johnmcgaughey255
Sep 18, 20204 min read
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Beginning of career interest
7 September 2020 Researching the career options in Machine learning fields, I have found many pathways to pursue my passion and career...
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Sep 8, 20202 min read
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