Cogitate

I really dislike the analogy that neural networks ‘are similar to’ our brains. It isn’t true, nor has it ever been. We have made about 50 years of progress in neuroscience research since the misnormer happened – if they would not have the same name, you would not confuse them... [Read More]

When making (visual) changes on my blog, I used to make a commit and wait until GitHub pages rebuilt and published the site again, before I could verify that I liked the change or if I should modify it further. A single iteration often took several minutes. It worked, but... [Read More]

Abstract Point cloud is a crucial geometric data type. Due to its peculiar format, most researchers transform such data. This, however, tends to cause issues. PointNet (2017) is a novel type of neural network that directly consumes point cloud data while respecting input permutation invariance, an important characteristic of point... [Read More]

Review of Ryan Holidays book that ‘teaches us all how to maintain our focus and presence of mind amid the sometimes overwhelming conflicts and troubles of twenty-first century life’, according to Robert Greene. I got this book sometime in the end of September 2020, and read it from late November... [Read More]

Review of Andy Weir’s third book, “an epic story of redemption, discovery and cool speculative sci-fi”, according to USA Today. Several people recommended it in a larger ratonalist group, so I bought and read it sometime last month. I can only recommend it to everyone interested in ‘hard’ science fiction,... [Read More]