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Ryan Adams---September 13, 2020anemptytextllineInformation theory is a fascinating topic that informs many of the ways we think about structure in data. This video provides a brief overview of some of the concepts, inspired by the lectures of my PhD advisor, the late David MacKay. This is part of a series...
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Ryan Adams---September 6, 2020anemptytextllineIt's difficult to overstate the centrality of the Gaussian distribution to machine learning, statistics, and many other natural sciences. This video talks about some of the reasons this distribution is special. This is part of a series of videos for COS 302: Mathematics for Numerical Computation and...
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Ryan Adams---August 30, 2020anemptytextllineThis video talks about Chebyshev, Markov, Jensen, and friends. This is part of a series of videos for COS 302: Mathematics for Numerical Computation and Machine Learning, replacing lectures after the course went remote due to the COVID-19 pandemic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij3f__U-iH8
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