Activation functions are functions that we apply in neural networks after (typically) applying an affine transformation combining weights and input features. They are typically non-linear functions. The rectified linear unit, or ReLU, has been the most popular in the past…
These are the things that have inspired me the most or changed the way I live. You can find what I'm reading now on Goodreads [https://goodreads.com/austenallred]. Memos/Articles/Blogs * Amazon Shareholder Letters…
A series of posts on the limits of human forecasting, and what we may learn from the very best research into the topic.
From ‘Urban Cowboy’ to ‘Northern Exposure’ to ‘No Country for Old Men,’ Texas’s finest character actor isn’t hanging up his spurs just yet.
A study on team loyalty among fans shows that club ranking plays an important role in how they identify with one another.
Reverse engineering the curve detection algorithm from InceptionV1 and reimplementing it from scratch.
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Clock Gating is defined as: “Clock gating is a technique/methodology to turn off the clock to certain parts of the digital design when not needed”. The Need for Clock Gating With most of the SoCs heavily constrained by power budgets, it is of utmost importance to reduce power…
Results from the BIN paper, or why reducing noise in your decision making is far easier than fighting your cognitive biases.
Since November 2020, at least 11 Indians have died by suicide after being targeted by illegal payday lenders.
What led to a global imbalance of available shipping containers? And what were the effects on U.S. businesses?
The photographer Debsuddha documents the indignities suffered by his albino aunts in Kolkata, and how their world became even smaller in coronavirus lockdown.
The Flying Cloud 30FB Office was designed with productivity and connectivity in mind.
The Asian nation's food is on the rise in Texas. A recent pop-up collaboration shows how Tex-Mex is giving it a helping hand.
This is a collection of introductory, expository notes on applied category theory, inspired by the 2018 Applied Category Theory Workshop, and in these notes we take a leisurely stroll through two...
A quick browse through my Twitter or Instagram accounts, and you might guess that I've had category theory on my mind. You'd be right, too! So I have a few category-theory themed posts lined up for this semester, and to start off, I'd like to (attempt to) answer the question…
Google’s Privacy Sandbox is under increasing scrutiny throughout the digital media industry and now from the U.K. government as well.
We all want to be better than we are today. And that often requires pushing yourself beyond your comfort zone, even when you don’t feel like it. It requires getting back up and trying again and again when you fail. It requires sticking with a path long enough to see it through…
Leakage current can contribute to power dissipation, especially at lower threshold voltages. Learn about six types of leakage current that can be found in MOS transistors.
The New Orleans–inspired dish is available every day except Sunday, when Mitch Davis preaches at the local Baptist church.
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Haiti's influence on one of America's most musical cities is explored in a new audio documentary, Kanaval, hosted by Leyla McCalla and produced by WXPN.
How to use the Gaussian Distribution for Image Segmentation
12 sentiment analysis algorithms were compared on the accuracy of tweet classification. The fasText deep learning system was the winner.
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This January, NPR member stations share a mix of the most popular songs on their airwaves, including music from The Avalanches, Jade Bird, Madlib, Run the Jewels and more.
Don’t try to change someone else’s mind. Instead, help them find their own motivation to change.
We often use the words “nice” and “kind” synonymously. But it can be helpful to distinguish between the two qualities, as Eric Kapitulik, Marine special operator and leadership coach, does. Being nice means making people feel good in the short-term. Behaving politely. Offering a…
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The goal should not be conversion but doubt.
Here's how to figure out how long it's been since someone left their empties around, only to be dug up later.
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We present Text2Gestures, a transformer-based learning method to interactively generate emotive full-body gestures for virtual agents aligned with natural language text inputs. Our method generates…
After hiding just out of frame for decades, an exceptionally rare and remarkable Depression-era neon sign was discovered outside of Los Angeles. Then the past came rushing back.
How to identify similar objects in your image
The psychological quirks that make it tricky to get an accurate read on someone's emotions
Industrial genius Carl Braun believed that clear thinking and clear communication go hand in hand. Here the guide on writing productively to get things done.
In dingy basements and private clubs, an ancient Asian board game becomes a cutthroat battlefield for brainiacs.
A comprehensive list of logical fallacies, with definitions, explanations, and examples that are easy-to-understand.
The Armenian alphabet is a true masterpiece of its era and knows many secrets. However, there is one in particular that still blows my mind. As some people know the Armenian alphabet was (re)invented in 405 AD by the Armenian linguist and theologian Mesrop Mashtots with the help…
Marie Kondo is just the current manifestation of a tradition of cleaning.
Here is how you can build an advanced AI fingerprinter detector by refining it to take the dynamic behavior of JavaScript files into account.
The memory capacity of embedding tables in deep learning recommendation models (DLRMs) is increasing dramatically from tens of GBs to TBs across the industry. Given the fast growth in DLRMs, novel...
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