Machine learning and artificial intelligence (ML and AI) have seized Tech mindshare in a way few topics have in recent memory. A couple months ago I noticed people talking about artificial…

Technical topics like mathematics, physics, and even computer science are taught using a bottom-up approach. This approach involves laying out the topics in an area of study in a logical way with a natural progression in complexity and capability. The pro... (more…)

Disclaimer: Feeling so-and-so about posting this on LW, but given how many people here work in ML or adjacent fields I might as well. … (more…)

Perhaps the biggest insight in feature engineering in the last decade was the realization that you could predict a person's behavior by understanding the b... (more…)

A machine-learning algorithm that includes a quantum circuit generates realistic handwritten digits and performs better than its classical counterpart. (more…)