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2) Thanks for pointing this out. I've fixed.

Thanks! I'll fix this.

I have a theory that whatever popularity my blog has comes from writing to the level of the reader. My favorite example of the opposite behavior is how every blog post on a topic i…

I really like Katex. I used to use MathJax for my blog, but the page reflow was annoying. Now I use Katex with server-side rendering, and even pages with a lot of math load quickly…

There are many good resources! A few, depending on your inclination: - For intuition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNk_zzaMoSs - For rigor: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-06-lin…

Re: the first sin, I was told to not invert matrices but never given a satisfying reason. So I wrote a blog post about it: http://gregorygundersen.com/blog/2020/12/09/matrix-invers…

Thank you!

https://gregorygundersen.com/blog/ Simple research blog on ML, stats, etc.

I didn't implement a CNN from scratch, but a few years ago, I wrote a blog post on CNNs [1] because, like the other commenters, I could find almost no decent blog content on what e…

Ever since reading Bertrand Russell's "The Conquest of Happiness", I've thought a lot about the importance of being able to sit inside my own head. One quote that I wrote down: > A…

I like this framing. In graduate school, I worked for 2+ years before my first paper was published. In that time, I passed my PhD qualifying exam, took classes, wrote code, read pa…

This is great. I've written previously about why I write as a researcher [1], but none of my reasons were this author's reason: that narrative structure clarifies understanding. Th…

This is good advice, and both parts rely on being aware of your own mind and even tricking it a bit. This reminded me of a Moxie story about nearly dying while sailing [1]: > Stran…

This sounds a lot like a tool I built for myself [1], sans the database. I agree that Markdown + Katex with a local server seems like the right move for most technical people. Lots…

I didn't want to make the post overly long by adding a section on "failure modes," but certainly one of them is: spend a long time building and tweaking a blog rather than writing.…

Thanks Chris!

I write drafts in Markdown + MathJax and then build everything into a static site using Jekyll. I didn't use a theme or template, since I found most were too noisy. It's just custo…

I just use Jekyll to build a static site (Markdown + MathJax). I wrote the HTML/CSS myself, but maybe I can put the "theme" on GitHub later today.

Hey, it sounds like you're still programming. Glad to hear it's going well!