February 2021 – Page 6 – Andrew Fairless, Ph.D.

What I Read: Brain Cell DNA Refolds to Aid Memory

By Andrew Fairless on February 3, 2021January 8, 2021

https://www.quantamagazine.org/brain-cell-dna-refolds-itself-to-aid-memory-recall-20201102/ November 2 2020 3:37 PMBrain Cell DNA Refolds Itself to Aid Memory Recallby Elena Renken “…neuroscientists have made progress in their hunt for exactly how our brains form memories.Continue readingWhat I Read: Brain Cell DNA Refolds to Aid Memory

What I Read: What Color Is This? Part 2

By Andrew Fairless on February 3, 2021January 8, 2021

https://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2020/10/13/what-color-is-this-part-2/ What Color Is This? Part 2Blog post by Dan TasseDan TasseOctober 13, 2020 – San Francisco, CAWhat Color Is This, Part 2: The Computational Parts “We have to findContinue readingWhat I Read: What Color Is This? Part 2

What I Read: Reinforcement learning is supervised learning

By Andrew Fairless on February 2, 2021January 8, 2021

https://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2020/10/13/supervised-rl/ Reinforcement learning is supervised learning on optimized dataBen Eysenbach and Aviral Kumar and Abhishek Gupta Oct 13, 2020 “This suggests that we can simply use inverse RL to relabelContinue readingWhat I Read: Reinforcement learning is supervised learning

What I Read: Software Tips for Data Science

By Andrew Fairless on February 2, 2021January 8, 2021

https://medium.com/swlh/software-engineering-tips-and-best-practices-for-data-science-5d85dbcf87fd Software Engineering Tips and Best Practices for Data ScienceWith great code comes great machine learningAhmed BesbesAug 28 “However, jupyter notebooks hide some serious pitfalls that may turn your codingContinue readingWhat I Read: Software Tips for Data Science

What I Read: Neural Networks Help Explain Brains

By Andrew Fairless on February 1, 2021January 7, 2021

https://www.quantamagazine.org/deep-neural-networks-help-to-explain-living-brains-20201028/ neuroscienceDeep Neural Networks Help to Explain Living Brains Deep neural networks, often criticized as “black boxes,” are helping neuroscientists understand the organization of living brains.“If their CNN mimicked aContinue readingWhat I Read: Neural Networks Help Explain Brains

Month: February 2021