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Derivation of Glorot initialisation
Filling in the details of Glorot’s original derivation of his eponymous initialisation method, introduced in his landmark 2010 paper and which is now the default method for initialising the weights of deep neural networks.
2024-03-08
Machine learning Deep learning Neural networks
The German tank problem
Estimating the upper bound of a discrete uniform probability mass function from sampling without replacement using frequentist and Bayesian techniques.
2024-02-24
Probability Statistics
Some of my favourite quotes
Running list of some things that have been said which I take satisfaction in.
2024-02-17
Mathematics Science
How I build this website
Yes, the present tense, not the past tense. Description of the custom solution I developed to efficiently build this website from source files.
2024-01-01
Meta Productivity Programming Web
Name conventions for temporal data columns
For goodness' sake, can we please all agree to some standard naming conventions for columns containing temporal data?
2023-12-08
Data engineering Data cleansing Best practices
How I evaluate machine learning models
Description of the solution I use in day-to-day data science work to evaluate my machine learning models.
2023-11-03
Machine learning Model evaluation
A dense percentile rank function in Snowflake
Implementation of a 'dense' percentile rank function in SnowSQL.
2023-10-27
Snowflake SQL
A foreshadow of my data science career in my engineering undergrad: Kriging
AKA Gaussian process regression for the geosciences.
2023-10-06
Gaussian process regression Statistics