The ML framework is coming along! Thinking deeply and carefully about all of the involved math and cs. Looking really good so far! Wrote the Dense layer, the logic for forward, and backpropagation. Next up: activation functions and better cost functions! Oh, and of course, since I have the generalized Dense layer coded, I'm gonna write the Sequential model wrapper. NO, I'M NOT STEALING FROM KERAS. This is a screenshot of me training a simple Linear Regression.
This week was pretty fun! Talked to a lot of super-smart people with and without credentials. Makes me miss the university life. If *unspoken* things go well, will be starting the next big life chapter. Hopefully :) Side project: building ML framework from scratch is actually pretty interesting! Linear algebra plus vectorization and broadcasting. Definitely going to keep going with it
Found another reason to LOVE VS - you can run jupyter notebooks within it. Woah
Haven't done ML in a while, so I thought it would be nice to go over Andrew Ng's courses and maybe develop my own ML framework ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Sep 16 update: going pretty good so far! I've implemented the first dense layer and did the first simple linear regression. Yay.
Pretty interesting day. Started off with some exciting emails, then listened to a very dark episode of Sam Harris's podcast about a topic so taboo I won't even mention it here (but definitely was worth the time). After that spent some time with family, yes, we are rewatching Harry Potter yet again. Also looked over the recent Editorial contest on codeforces, but didn't think it was that interesting. The day ended in a debate on one of the discord's channels. For those who don't know and for myself from the future suffering from Alzheimers, the main reason why I joined discord was to improve my communication skills, and in today's discussion, I did really well. So well, in fact, that one real and very nice human being let me know about how clear and effective my communication was. Wouldn't lie, it felt pretty good to hear such a comment from an outsider :)
