Math
Playing magic tricks with randomness
What do Video games, statistics and data bases all have in common? They all need to use random number generators. But how does a deterministic machine generate randomness? Obviously the answer is it doesn't, but we've gotten pretty damn good at faking it. Let's learn how.
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A Gentle Introduction to Automatic Differentiation
Differentiation is hard enough when it's in abstract on a math test, but what about when it's living, breathing code? Let's learn how modern numerical computing frameworks like Julia, Pytorch, Tensorflow and JAX all take gradients without ever being told how to do it.
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