I always get confused between necessary and sufficient conditions.
So here’s a small picture to remind myself:
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3 Different Views on Functions
Philosophical intuition behind functions
What are functions?
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Cross Entropy
A useful objective function in ML
Cross-Entropy can be thought of as a measure of how much one distribution differs from a 2nd distribution, which is the ground truth. It is one of the two terms in the KL-Divergence, which is also a sort-of measure of (non-symmetric) distance between two distribution, the other term being the...
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AI Tic-Tac-Toe
An RL stand-off
I recently completed a Coursera specialization in Reinforcement Learning (RL) [which I highly recommend]. The idea behind it, in a nutshell, is to model an environment and an agent that interacts with each other. The agents processes the current state it is in, and, based on its learning model, chooses...
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Crash course in Miracles
It works wonders
For a long time I knew that the Hebrew word for a miracle -נס - (Nes) also meant a flag. But I always thought it was just different meanings that somehow got into the same word. I never thought that the meanings were similar, until now.
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