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You have a drawer with some red socks and some blue socks. You know that if you pull out 2 socks randomly, the probability they're both red is 1/2…Given this information, what's the probability that the first sock you pull is red?…
An Even Easier Introduction to CUDA (Updated)
This post is a super simple introduction to CUDA, the popular parallel computing platform and programming model from NVIDIA. I wrote a previous post, An Easy Introduction to CUDA in 2013 that has been popular over the years. But CUDA programming has gotten easier, and GPUs have gotten much faster, so it’s time for an updated (and even easier) introduction…ML System Design Case Studies Repository
This repository is a comprehensive collection of 300+ case studies from over 80 leading companies, showcasing practical applications and insights into machine learning (ML) system design. Companies like Netflix, Airbnb, and Doordash have shared their experiences, providing a valuable resource for anyone interested in learning how ML is used to improve products and processes…Public Perspectives on AI Governance: A Survey of Working Adults in California, Illinois, and New York
This report presents findings from a March 2025 survey examining public attitudes toward specific artificial intelligence (AI) policy objectives among working-class adults in three US states: California, Illinois, and New York. The survey collected responses from 300 participants, measuring their degree of support for 18 specific AI regulatory proposals…Frequently Asked Questions (And Answers) About AI Evals
A list of every AI evals question ever…Foundational Data Structures (and Their Weird Cousins) Explained
This article not only provides a clear explanation of the core data structures but also explores their more complex and less-known variants such as B-Trees, Radix Trees, Ropes, Bloom Filters, and Cuckoo Hashing…What four math books had a big influence on your mathematical thinking? (X)
What four math books had a big influence on your mathematical thinking? I'll start…TidyBot++: An Open-Source Holonomic Mobile Manipulator for Robot Learning
This paper proposes an open-source design for an inexpensive, robust, and flexible mobile manipulator that can support arbitrary arms, enabling a wide range of real-world household mobile manipulation tasks. Crucially, our design uses powered casters to enable the mobile base to be fully holonomic, able to control all planar degrees of freedom independently and simultaneously…
Animated Maps with {ggplot2} and {gganimate}
In this blog post, we are going to use data from the {gapminder} R package, along with global spatial boundaries from ‘opendatasoft’. We are going to plot the life expectancy of each country in the Americas and animate it to see the changes from 1957 to 2007….
Flexible and powerful tensor operations for readable and reliable code (for pytorch, jax, TF and others)…
AdamW Optimizer from Scratch in Python
In this tutorial, we will review the AdamW optimizer, which is currently the state of the art in most deep learning training regimens. AdamW is a variant of Adam which apply regularization in the form of weight decay in a very specific way that makes it much more stable than the regular Adam optimizer. We'll break down where this regularization helps and how it differs from the traditional Adam + L2 regularization….When calibration beats metrics
Having a classifier with great metrics is good, but it is not enough for it to be useful in production. One reason why it might still fail is because it could be that you are dealing with a badly calibrated model. The predictions might be fine, but the probability estimates can be way off. In this video we talk about how to think about calibration and what it means…Understanding ASTs
Learn about abstract syntax trees (ASTs) and how they are used in codemods. This page covers the basics of ASTs, including what they are and how they are used to represent the structure of code. We'll also discuss how to read and manipulate ASTs in your codemods to automatically refactor your codebase…
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