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Alice's Adventures in a Differentiable Wonderland
- magnio 1y agoThis looks like a good practical companion for a more theoretical text, such as Deep Learning by Bishop.
- fossa1 1y agoGlad to see JAX featured alongside PyTorch. JAX still feels like the best-kept secret in deep learning
- ProofHouse 1y agoDamn beeeeefffffyyyyy. Need the month to eat ten pages a day, Tnx looks awesome. Could append diffusion too ultimately
- superjose 1y agoWow, kudos to the Author. Very easy to digest, beautifully crafted, and took the time to explain the concepts when most places take them for granted.
- canyp 1y agoWell, kudos to your one-line comment too because now I am encouraged to actually read this.
- kittikitti 1y agoAlthough I love this, it's not peer reviewed and I don't trust arxiv.
- SiempreViernes 1y agoActually, it is peer reviewed following the standard practice for books: some other people read it and provided feedback as evidenced by the Acknowledgments section.
- esafak 1y agoPeople are submitting corrections: https://www.sscardapane.it/assets/alice/errata_list.pdf https://www.sscardapane.it/assets/alice/errata_list.pdf
- odyssey7 1y agoIt’s more a book than academic research. The funny thing about books is that authors in free societies are allowed to self-publish whatever they want. The norms are different and, frankly, more democratic and with less gatekeeping.
- ethan_smith 1y agoarXiv is a preprint server trusted by the scientific community for decades - papers there often undergo peer review later, and many top ML researchers publish their work there first for faster dissemination.
- _giorgio_ 1y agoWebsite of the author with more material and lab sessions https://www.sscardapane.it/alice-book/ https://www.sscardapane.it/alice-book/ https://sscardapane.notion.site/Guided-lab-sessions-18c25bd12a8c8068b972f7612fcde8d5 https://sscardapane.notion.site/Guided-lab-sessions-18c25bd1...
- odyssey7 1y agoIt would be nice if arXiv included a small-layout pdf or native epub option for e-readers. Now that they serve the Tex files and are experimenting with HTML, it feels like a natural step.
- solarwindy 1y agoI think the version hosted on the book's website would work fine on smaller screens (and also seems to have been updated more recently): https://www.sscardapane.it/assets/alice/Alice_book_volume_1.pdf https://www.sscardapane.it/assets/alice/Alice_book_volume_1....
- 0cf8612b2e1e 1y agoThe corresponding row vector is denoted by x^T when we need to distinguish them. We can also ignore the transpose for readability, if the shape is clear from context. I am tilting at windmills, but I am continually annoyed at the sloppiness of mathematicians in writing. Fine, you don’t like verbosity, but for didactic purposes, please do not assume the reader is equipped to know that variable x actually implies variable y. All that being said, the writing style from the first chapter is very encouraging at how approachable this will be.
- JadeNB 1y ago> I am tilting at windmills, but I am continually annoyed at the sloppiness of mathematicians in writing. Fine, you don’t like verbosity, but for didactic purposes, please do not assume the reader is equipped to know that variable x actually implies variable y. I am a practicing mathematician who felt the same way you did when I started, and who still writes their papers in a way that many of my colleagues feel is gallingly pedantic. With that as my credentials, I hope I may say that it can be much worse as a reader to read something where every detail is spelled out, because a bit of syntactic sugar begins to seem as important as the heart of an argument. Where the dividing line is between precision and obfuscation depends on the reader, and so inevitably will leave some readers on the wrong side, but a trade-off does have to be made somewhere.
- emseetech 1y agoCould there be a compromise where the verbosity is kept but the key points are highlighted, grouped or presented in a different color. I would certainly appreciate if math papers were more explicit and "hand-holding" but understand why trained mathematicians would find that tedious.
- JadeNB 1y ago> Could there be a compromise where the verbosity is kept but the key points are highlighted, grouped or presented in a different color. There's no reason except inertia why there couldn't be. Lamport actually proposed a system for this: https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/lamport-how-to-write.pdf https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/lamport-how-to-write.....
- bwfan123 1y agothis 3 page classic [1] captures most of the core ideas and explains it in a manner anyone with basic calculus background can understand - "Learning representations by back-propagating errors" [1] https://gwern.net/doc/ai/nn/1986-rumelhart-2.pdf https://gwern.net/doc/ai/nn/1986-rumelhart-2.pdf
- pstuart 1y agoI took calculus over 30 years ago and have never really used it -- I'll put your conjecture to test (sample size: 1). Will let you know if your conjecture is true ;-).
- dunefox 1y agoAnd I just bought the physical book...
- canyp 1y agoI do that all the time to support authors, plus the physicality of a tangible book is irreplaceable. In fact, I did that just today with a different book.
- canyp 1y agoBeautifully formatted and has the right combination of code and theory for noobs like me. Strong vibes for Simone right now, hero of the people.