As part of the Max Planck Centre’s Deep Learning reading group, I’m working my way through the soon-to-be released Deep Learning textbook. These posts are my informal notes for each chapter. Find my notes from chapter 1 here. Thanks again … Keep reading
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Deep Learning Textbook Chapter 1: Linear Algebra
The Dolan lab group (and friends) is working through the soon-to-be-released Deep Learning textbook, authored by Goodfellow Bengio, and Courville, and somewhat miraculously available in html form prior to publication by MIT press.
At a risk of exposing the depths of … Keep reading
Setting up Tensorflow for Mac OS X
Alternative method from the Asimov institute. This worked fine for me using an Anaconda install of Python on Mac OS X, except I had to remove the ‘–update’ flag when doing the installation with pip. Their version involves direct installation … Keep reading
The Happiness Project
I’ve just finished a two week run at the Camden Roundhouse performing a play called The Happiness Project. This is a project I’ve been involved in for just over two years, which began as a low-key attempt to explore why … Keep reading
What’s the deal with modafinil?
The following is from a blog post I wrote recently for The Guardian. You can find the original here.
A great deal of excitement has been generated in recent weeks by a review paper examining the literature on the drug … Keep reading
Running deep reinforcement learning models
Deep Mind’s Nature paper has created an understandable buzz. In it they create an algorithm than can learn to play a huge slew of Atari computer games better than a human expert. Particularly compelling are the videos, which I … Keep reading