Programming

emplace_back vs push_back

tl;dr emplace_back is often mistaken as a faster push_back, while it is in fact just a different tool. Do not blindly replace push_back by emplace_back, be careful of how you use emplace_back, since it can have unexpected consequences.

Part 2: Deep Learning with Closures in R

Let’s go on! If you just arrived, you can check out the first part here. The goal of this series is to demonstrate how compactly we can implement an MLP in a functional programming paradigm and how easy it becomes to extend/play around with it.

Part 1: Deep Learning with Closures in R

Start of a small series The gif below is the evolution of the weights from a neural network trained on the mnist dataset. Mnist is a dataset of handwritten digits, and is kind of the hello world/FizzBuzz of machine learning.

Visualizing Strange Attractors

What is a strange attractor? The wikipedia article on attractors gives the following definition/explanation: An attractor is called strange if it has a fractal structure. This is often the case when the dynamics on it are chaotic, but strange nonchaotic attractors also exist.

Got some new books!

I have been waiting to read these for a while now! Let the reading commence #rstats #MachineLearning pic.twitter.com/Lqx2IcTENI — Gudmundur Einarsson (@gumgumeo) November 8, 2017