Category: General
Deep Neural Nets: 33 years ago and 33 years from now
The Yann LeCun et al. (1989) paper Backpropagation Applied to Handwritten Zip Code Recognition is I believe of some historical significance because it is, to my...
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Why is it so hard to buy things that work well?
There’s a cocktail party version of the efficient markets hypothesis I frequently hear that’s basically, “markets enforce efficiency, so it’s not possible that a company can...
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How to use Google Analytics in Deno Deploy
An example of how to use server-side Google Analytics in Deno
Read moreThe 2030 Self-Driving Car Bet
It’s my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the 501(c)(3) charity of the winner’s choice: By...
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Misidentifying talent
[Click to collapse / expand section on sports] Here are some notes from talent scouts: Recruit A: … will be a real specimen with chance to...
Read moreLearning with not Enough Data Part 2: Active Learning
This is part 2 of what to do when facing a limited amount of labeled data for supervised learning tasks. This time we will get some...
Read moreDeno 1.19 Release Notes
Deno 1.19 improves our web streams integration, introduces a `deno vendor` subcommand, and adds many other new features.
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