mathowl in #hive-196387 • last yearResearch diaries #20: Builing another PC Nowadays I have some projects that require a bit more computation power than usual. So I had the nice opportunity to build a stationary computation horse. My current mindset is…mathowl in #hive-196387 • last yearResearch diaries #19: Unequal but not that unequal*A long while back I wrote a post about how unbiased randomness gives rise to extreme inequality. The underlying dynamics is that a few individuals have a lucky streak. This…mathowl in #hive-196387 • 2 years agoResearch diaries #18: About inflation returning to normal levelsIn the last year we have experienced extreme rates of inflation as we have an upward pressure on energy and food and a decline in export as a result of Covid and the war in…mathowl in #hive-196387 • 2 years agoResearch diaries #17: About sparseness of data and training neural netsTypically a neural net is trained on large amounts of data. It will after training hopefully have good performance on this training set. Specifically, the tools for training a…mathowl in #hive-196387 • 2 years agoResearch diaries #16: Reservoir computing, an AI which does not live inside a computerIn this post we will look at a fancy AI called reservoir computing. We will just be looking at the general concept. In a future post I will show you an implementation of this…mathowl in #hive-196387 • 2 years agoResearch diaries #15: Going down rabbit holesIn math everything you do has always to be consistent with the rules of logic. But the real goal of math is finding structure inside the logic. Usually finding problems with…mathowl in #hive-196387 • 2 years agoResearch diaries #14: An optimization puzzleOccasionally I do some algorithm puzzles. This is quite a fun one from Hackerrank with rubik like features. *Today startinmathowl in #hive-196387 • 2 years agoResearch diaries #13: statistical DAGsAfter the last adventure in statistics another exploration. Today we will be looking at DAGs. DAGs are a systematic way of finding the link betweenmathowl in #hive-196387 • 2 years agoResearch diaries #12: Berkin's paradox and why the worst restaurants are in the most touristy spotsLately I have been delving a bit into statistics. Today we will be looking at a famous paradox about why correlation does not have to imply causation. [mathowl in #hive-196387 • 2 years agoResearch diaries #11: rearranging sequences, weirdness at infinityAt infinity our ordinary intuitive understanding breaks down as the mathematical definition of infinity is very different from what we have in our mind. A good example of this…mathowl in #hive-196387 • 2 years agoResearch diaries #10: The real line, gaps in the rational numbers and the axiom of completenessHistorically mathematics did not start at the true fundamentals. The fundamentals were only completed around the 19th century. All of the work done before that was done with some…mathowl in #hive-196387 • 2 years agoResearch diaries #9: types of convergenceA sequence is a list of ordered points. As we progress through a sequence it could be that these points are approximating some point. For example, look at the graph below  at the start of a night out.
