I was playing around with GAN face generation in TensorFlow the other night. The iterations turned better and better except in one …
Solutions to Exercises in Statistical Learning
I did a bit of spring cleaning and found some solutions to a course using exercises from the book The Elements of …
How to print colored or bolded strings in Matlab
From not very in-depth research there seems to be no way to color strings being output to the terminal in Matlab when …
C++ Pipeline for Learning Fisher Vectors Using VLFeat
I implemented a C++ pipeline for learning Fisher feature vectors using VLFeat since Matlab should be avoided whenever possible. Also I found …
Benchmarking Python fancy indexing vs. taken
I recently discovered that fancy indexing is not that fast in Python. If you do a lot of it, it can eat …
The Rayleigh Quotient and the Norm Constraint
This post will try to explain why in the optimization of the Rayleigh Quotient one constrains the norm of $$x$$ to be …
Deliver first, fix later
Came across this interesting talk where Adriel Wallick talks about creating 52 games in a year. The main take away to me …
BubbleSort: Computer Science Zines
Came across this on Kickstarter. Awesome.
Why Latex is broken and what needs to be fixed
Having programmed too much HTML and CSS gets your mindset gets warped; in the right direction. You start to believe religiously that …
On the Trick for Computing the Squared Euclidean Distances Between Two Sets of Vectors
Many times one wants to compute the squared pairwise Euclidean distances between two sets of observations. As always it is enlightening to …