https://www.rehansheikh.com/blog/vae What the F*** is a VAE?Rehan SheikhJanuary 23, 2025 “A disentangled variational autoencoder aims for each latent dimension… to correspond to a single factor of variation in your dataset.”
What I Read: commonality analysis
https://lnalborczyk.github.io/blog/2025-01-07-commonality/index.html Making sense of commonality analysisLadislas Nalborczyk2025-01-07 “Commonality analysis provides a valuable tool for addressing such questions by partitioning the explained variance in multiple regression into distinct components.”
What I Read: Single-Node Processing
https://practicaldataengineering.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-single-node-processing The Rise of Single-Node Processing: Challenging the Distributed-First MindsetAlireza SadeghiJan 06, 2025 “As we move away from the “big data” era’s distributed-first mindset, many businesses are discovering that single-node
What I Read: AI, HCI
https://ianarawjo.medium.com/what-ai-engineers-can-learn-from-qualitative-research-methods-in-hci-5b29b9b7465a What AI engineers can learn from qualitative research methods in HCIIan ArawjoJan 9, 2025 “Meet inductive coding and grounded theory, the new bread-and-butter of LLMOps”
What I Read: impossible languages
https://www.quantamagazine.org/can-ai-models-show-us-how-people-learn-impossible-languages-point-a-way-20250113/ Can AI Models Show Us How People Learn? Impossible Languages Point a Way.Ben Brubaker1/13/25 11:00 AM “Certain grammatical rules never appear in any known language. By constructing artificial languages