Hilbert space: Treating functions as vectors(eli.thegreenplace.net)

117 points by signa11 11 months ago | 45 comments

Demystifying Tupper's Formula(eli.thegreenplace.net)

103 points by picture 3 years ago | 15 comments

Cubic spline interpolation(eli.thegreenplace.net)

78 points by signa11 3 years ago | 25 comments

Notes on Taylor and Maclaurin Series(eli.thegreenplace.net)

85 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 26 comments

Monte-Carlo Simulations(eli.thegreenplace.net)

154 points by ibobev 12 days ago | 35 comments

Eli Bendersky blog post explaining Monte Carlo simulations with examples like estimating pi by throwing darts, using Rust and Python.

Notes on Lagrange Interpolating Polynomials(eli.thegreenplace.net)

34 points by ibobev 7 months ago | 9 comments

New exponent functions that make SiLU and SoftMax 2x faster, at full accuracy(github.com)

368 points by weinzierl 2 years ago | 72 comments

GitHub pull request to llama.cpp by jart that upstreams llamafile's vectorized expf() functions to compute SiLU and softmax faster and more accurately on CPU.

Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored(rachel.fast.ai)

549 points by chmaynard 1 year ago | 134 comments

Rachel Thomas blog post on how a high-profile Nature paper using a Transformer to predict enzyme functions contained many errors that received far less attention than the original result.

Attention Is Off By One(evanmiller.org)

959 points by elbasti 3 years ago | 307 comments

Evan Miller's blog post arguing that the softmax in the transformer attention formula has an off-by-one flaw and proposing a modified softmax.

The future of software development is software developers(codemanship.wordpress.com)

376 points by cdrnsf 10 months ago | 471 comments

A Codemanship blog post arguing that the future of software development still depends on human software developers.

AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder(ivanturkovic.com)

343 points by saikatsg 7 months ago | 242 comments

Blog post by Ivan Turkovic arguing that AI tools make producing code easier while making the broader job of being a software engineer harder.

An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in Python(statlearning.com)

359 points by alexmolas 3 years ago | 65 comments

Official website for the textbook An Introduction to Statistical Learning, offering free downloads of the R and Python editions plus resources and errata.