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Let Ω be an open set in some Euclidean space and v a real-valued function on Ω. Dirichlet principle Dirichlet’s…
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Here’s a plot of exp(6it)/2 + exp(20it)/3: Notice that the plot has 7-fold symmetry. You might expect 6-fold symmetry from…
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Bob Martin recently posted a nice pair of articles, A Little Clojure and A Little More Clojure. In the first…
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Argmax is a mathematical function that you may encounter in applied machine learning. For example, you may see “argmax” or…
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Supervised learning in machine learning can be described in terms of function approximation. Given a dataset comprised of inputs and…
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The previous post explained that Lobatto’s integration method is more efficient than Gaussian quadrature when the end points of the…
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I keep running into Mittag-Leffler. A couple days ago I wrote about his polynomials. Today I ran across his regularization…
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If you look at the Wikipedia article on Weierstrass functions, you’ll find a line that says “the relation between the…
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An empirical distribution function provides a way to model and sample cumulative probabilities for a data sample that does not…
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Multiple Linear Regression — with math and codeKernel Regression — with example and codeIn this article, how kernel function is used as a weighing function to…
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Last Updated on October 9, 2019 Global optimization is a challenging problem of finding an input that results in the…
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A Large-Scale Study, 2018. The result is better gradient information when updating the weights of the generator and a more…
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This summer, I interned on the ML Platform team. I worked on MLflow, an open-source machine learning management framework. This…
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We can consider this as a disadvantage of MAE. Here is the code for the update_weight function with MAE cost:…
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