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Gradient, Curl, Divergence

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Math
In Lecture 9, Leonard Susskind reviews gradient, curl and divergence. He says that the curl of a gradient is zero; and, furthermore, if the curl of a vector field is 0, then that vector field is a ...

Suflete Moarte

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Literature
Suflete Moarte. Cine este Nikolai Gogol? Cât din Gogol este realism tăios, și cât este satiră?

The Genealogy of Data

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Databases Data
In this post, we will survey data storage formats, and data management. The questions we will be asking are How and where the data is store Ways in which it is accessed Transformations it un...

Batch Normalization

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Machine learning Batch normalization
Papers Sergey Ioffe and Christian Szegedy: Batch Normalization: Accelerating Deep Network Training by Reducing Internal Covariate Shift, ICML 2015. J.L. Ba, J. R. Kiros, and G.E. Hinton. Layer...

Rotation Invariant CNN

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Machine learning
This Stack Overflow post explores a question I had reading about Convolutional Neural Networks: Why rotation-invariant neural networks are not used in winners of the popular competitions?

Ali Ghodsi U Waterloo AI Courses

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Machine learning Statistics
I came across Ali Gholdsi’s lectures by chance, and some of the YouTube comments were so positive that I had to watch his lectures: “These lectures are way more informative than the Stanford ones”,...