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Generative transformer from first principles in Julia
(liorsinai.github.io)
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Author here. While researching this topic I came across this article https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/compressed-tries/ by GeeksForGeeks (compressed trie is another name for radix tree). Currently it is one of the top res
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Radix Tree in Julia
(liorsinai.github.io)
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The pictures come straight from Wikipedia. From the picture for North Korea ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea ): Territory controlled by North Korea shown in dark green; territory claimed but not controlled sho
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The Weiler-Atherton polygon clipping algorithm
(liorsinai.github.io)
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And if you choose b=x/10, x/100, x/1000 ... then each iteration will add the exact decimal point.
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For anyone wondering how they got the approximation sqrt(2)=1+24/60+51/60^2+10/60^3. It's based on the simple idea that: Z = (a + b)^2 = (a^2 + (2a+b)*b) => (2a+b)* b < Z-a^2 Given an initial estimate &
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Implementing the Gzip-kNN Classification Paper
(liorsinai.github.io)
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https://liorsinai.github.io/ long detailed posts on mathematics, machine learning and algorithms. Most of the code is in Julia but older posts also feature Python, C# and C++. I recently did posts on Transformers and Diffus
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How (not) to compare 2D scatter plots
(liorsinai.github.io)
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Auuthor here. Will update.
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Author here. I have noticed similar behaviour. As part of this exercise I tried to train a model to generate Pokemon based on This Pokemon Does Not Exist by HuggingFace. However my models only converged to nosiy smudges after 50 iterations
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Denoising Diffusion models from first principle in Julia
(liorsinai.github.io)
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I went to a university in South Africa which had the opposite problem, grade deflation. The engineering school was masochistic in its obsession with lowering grades and failing students. Despite working extremely hard I went from 90%s to 60
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I'm a mechanical engineer and I can give a similar perspective. I'm now in software engineering and I'm doing well. My other classmates who moved into consulting or finance are doing even better. Those who stayed in engineeri
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The automated url # fragments on highlights for this website is a cool but weird feature
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Author here. Indeed, the HackerNews teams moved this to a second chance pool for me; very nice of them
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Building a transformer in Julia
(liorsinai.github.io)
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Johannesburg, South Africa. A city with many problems but everyone agrees the weather is great. Average temperature per month ranges from 10C to 20C. Extremes are normally between 0C and 30C. (It can feel very cold when it goes below 0C bec
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In the image it's the grey text in the red bar next to AliExpress. I know Dutch as a second language and it pops out as very rude, like something you would see on a porn site. The Google Translation is accurate.
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I've seen the same with Hebrew. It's not nearly as widely spoken as Arabic but graphic artists like to include it on their designs and so on because of the unique letters which really contrast to the Latin alphabet. Mistakes inclu
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Author here: these typos totally eluded me. Will fix them.
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Author here: thanks for the tip. Definitely think this looks better
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Quaternions
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Pinging the World from South Africa
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Sudoku OCR Reader in Julia
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The Monty Hall problem revisited
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A Private Blockchain for Files
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Thoughts on Julia after 2 weeks
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Least Recently Used cache in C++
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