If you’re like me, you’ve heard a lot about Gradient Descent. You’ve heard that it is a foundational algorithm for optimising functions which all self…
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Recently I was thinking about the gradient descent algorithm and I was bothered was one question - Why do we go in the direction of…
Introduction Recently, Quanta magazine published an article about how a new basic identity about Linear Algebra has surfaced from Applied Physics. The identity is about…
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Prologue Earlier my career I worked for a loyalty card scheme for one of the largest supermarkets in the UK. During my time I was…
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