Maybe Copernicus isn’t coming
Before Copernicus promoted the heliocentric model of the solar system, astronomers added epicycle on top of epicycle, creating ever more complex models of the solar system. The term epicycle is often used derisively to mean something ad hoc and unnecessarily complex. Copernicus’ model was simpler, but it was less accurate.
Read moreTrigonometric interpolation
Suppose you want to interpolate a set of data points with a combination of sines and cosines. One way to approach this problem would be to set up a system of equations for the coefficients of the sines and cosines. If you have N data points, you will get a
Read moreHow Google is helping developers get better answers from AI
Today’s guest is Logan Kilpatrick, a senior product manager at Google, who tells Ben about his journey from software engineering to machine learning to product management, all with an emphasis on reducing developer friction. They talk through the challenges of non-determinism in AI models and how Google is addressing these
Read moreMoments with Laplace
This is a quick note to mention a connection between two recent posts, namely today’s post about moments and post from a few days ago about the Laplace transform. Let f(t) be a function on [0, ∞) and F(s) be the Laplace transform of f(t). Then the nth moment of f, is
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