Teaching vs. Coaching
A teacher makes implicit knowledge explicit. Specifically, they make knowledge implicit in the teacher explicit.
Disambiguating the Equals Sign
Depending on context, \(x = y\) can mean any of:
Stupidity Without The Value Judgment
Stupidity
Vim `:Options`
Check out :options
, especially if you’re new to configuring Vim (and
want to).
Vimscript Comparisons Suck
Vim has a built-in scripting language. It’s what you write your vimrc
in, and it’s really convenient for short one-off tasks.
Stupid Simple Algorithms: DAgger
My hatred of the fetish for acronyms in academia reminds me of Amberley Vail’s rants against Imperial Guard jargon in the Ciaphas Cain novels.
Learn Some Shell Script: For-loops
A lot of people I know seem to glory in their ignorance of the terminal.
Which would be fine if they didn’t use it every day. Yes, bash
is
ugly. On the other hand, like many ugly things, it can be used as a
brute tool to do a lot of mundane tasks.
Why Live?
There was a footpath leading across fields to New Southgate, and I used to go there alone to watch the sunset and contemplate suicide. I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics.
Deep Learning Book Chapter 14 Notes
What is an autoencoder?
Eigen Apply Myself When I Want To: Finding Local Minima
Why The Second Derivative Test Works In One Dimension
How To Make Alt Key Not Type Unicode On Macos
I actually prefer the term macOS to OSX.
Eigenblogpost, or: Eigen Do It If I Try
Prerequisites (In Order Of Importance)
How to Get Rid of the Tildes in Vim 8 and Neovim
If your buffer has empty lines, they are filled with annoying tildes. Vim 8 and Neovim finally fix this by allowing you to conceal them with the following command:
Mnenomic for Law of Total Variance
I have (what I find) a handy mnemonic for the law of total variance. It’s also sometimes called the conditional variance formula, or (the reason for this mnenomic) Eve’s law. At least if I’m quoting Wikipedia right.
Notation for Stochastic Functions
I forget where I’ve seen this, but I like using a squiggly arrow to represent a function that returns a probability.