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Convex Relaxations of Transductive Learning | Machine Learning
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Notes, thoughts, and practice of applied machine learning. Convex Relaxations of Transductive Learning. Convex Relaxations of Transductive Learning. March 14, 2015. July 31, 2016. Charles H Martin, PhD. Why are SVMs interesting? It is just a better way to do Logistic Regression? Is it the Kernel Trick? And does this even matter now that Deep Learning is everywhere? Historically, convex optimization was seen as the path to central planing an entire economy. A great new book, Red Plenty. Today there are Tr...
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Machine Learning | notes, thoughts, and practice of applied machine learning | Page 2
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Notes, thoughts, and practice of applied machine learning. Why Deep Learning Works II: the Renormalization Group. April 1, 2015. October 23, 2015. Charles H Martin, PhD. Deep Learning is amazing. But why is Deep Learning so successful? Is Deep Learning just old-school Neural Networks on modern hardware? Is it just that we have so much data now the methods work better? Is Deep Learning just a really good at finding features. Researchers are working hard to sort this out. Recently it has been shown that [1].
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Optimization and the Gulag: A brief tour of certain 20th-century intellectual anxieties | Rational Action
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Rational Action: The Book. Optimization and the Gulag: A brief tour of certain 20th-century intellectual anxieties. Prisoner laborers constructing the Baltic Sea-White Sea canal. New York Times Magazine. Essay, “A Sucker is Optimized Every Minute,”. TV series. The following clip (up for the moment) is from Bronowski’s daughter, historian of science Lisa Jardine’s documentary about him:. Max Weber (whom we visited in my inaugural post. And, as I argued in my previous post. Among those who actually study o...
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Investment Themes | Entext Economics & Strategy Blog
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Entext Economics and Strategy Blog. MACRO DRIVEN INVESTMENT INSIGHT. Category Archives: Investment Themes. EM Led ‘Pain Trade’ Rally Gains Momentum…. August 12, 2016. In the last post in June, I concluded that. 8216;the ‘pain trade’ for global investors terrified of and positioned for a seemingly endless list of macro tail risks remains further risk asset performance in H2’. And so it has proven since. I’ve maintained a non-consensus overweight on EM equities and local currency debt all year,. In recent ...
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Tomsk79: February 2012
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Sunday, 26 February 2012. Red Plenty - Francis Spufford. If I told you that one of the dramatic highlights of Red Plenty. Is an upgrade to a Siberian viscose works, you might jump to the conclusion that it has niche appeal. But thanks to the literary wizardry of Francis Spufford this event is genuinely an enthralling plot point, and only one of many he uses to bring to life how Russian society operated in the Khrushchev era. The Red Plenty website is at redplenty.com. Sunday, 19 February 2012. Points out...
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Possible Future Readings | Storying the Past
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A blog for the #storypast virtual reading group. First Book: Laurent Binet’s HHhH. Second Book: Seth Koven’s The Match Girl and the Heiress. Third Book: Julia Blackburn’s Threads. Fourth Book: Alison Light’s Common People. Fifth Book: Adam Thorpe’s Ulverton. Sixth Book: Jennifer Sinor’s Extraordinary Work of Ordinary Writing. Here are some of the books that have been suggested as readings for the #storypast group. If you have another suggestion, why not post it in the comments? Zachary Leader (ed.).
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Jeans are the best pants in the world
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Jeans are the best pants in the world. In the early 1960s, the USSR was implementing a crackdown. This illustrates something that I think has deep implications for economic policy. Every planned economy has examples of suppressed demand for fashion and other ‘consumerist’ goods. In the Soviet Union. The citizens of East Germany. We are a long way from a Soviet-style planned economy, but many of the same issues pop up when we implement economic policy. And as far as consumer demand goes, we repeat the...
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Quatro Futuros | O Minhocário
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O progresso é a concretização de Utopias. – Oscar Wilde. Pular para o conteúdo. Tecnologia, Socialismo e o Futuro. Tecnologia e Ecologia Como Apocalipse e Utopia. Lingerie Egípcia e o Futuro Robô. Tecnologia e Estratégia Socialista. Robôs e Inteligência Artificial: Utopia ou Distopia? Socialismo, Mercado, Planejamento e Democracia. Votando Sob o Socialismo. Rumo a Um Socialismo Ciborgue. Todo Poder aos Espaços de Fazedores. Automação e o ‘Fim do Trabalho’ na Mídia Internacional Dominante. Vivo Sob o Sol.
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Computing Science - Paul's Research
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Part of the Faculty of Information and Mathematical Sciences ►. Paul Cockshott's home page. Bibliography on Academia.edu. Bibliography on Google Scholar. To do post graduate research here on any of the topics that appear on the panel to the right. Paul is a member of the Computer Vision and Graphics group. W Paul Cockshott wpc@dcs.gla.ac.uk,. Programming Languages and Parallelism. The N-body problem in Vector Pascal. Talk given at the workshop for Phase 2 of the SICSA multicore challenge. Lino is languag...