NeurIPS 2023 Retrospect Table of Contents Introduction MEKRR Expo hall and companies What I would have done differently Meetings and parties The actual research conference MEKRR Poster Introduction Thus another NeurIPS has ended. This is the third one for me, and for every one I've attended I feel it has increased in size. I reflect on my experience this time around. Some context: I have just…
RC Half-batch Retrospect Table of Contents Morning me is very ambitious Reflecting on in-person reflection Less social meetings, more coding Finished setting up my workstation Since I've been lazy and not written update for RC Week 5 and 6, I decided to ease the burden and roll them both into a half-batch retrospect instead so that I can bring myself to actually write it and reduce…
RC Retrospect Table of Contents RC is a place and a context Thinking back on what I did So long, see you around This is a long overdue retrospect of my time at RC. I've been super busy with job searching and preparing, but the other day I looked at the niceties sent out to me by email, and it filled me with absolute joy (thanks to all who wrote them, it really made me a little bit teary-eyed and…
RC: Week 1 Table of Contents Hello RC! A truly hybrid week Socializing is fun, but how am I supposed to remember all of these people? The Manual and online resources Going forward Hello RC! I just started the winter 1 batch of 2023 at the Recurse Center (RC)! I'm very happy, I wasn't sure that I was going to make it as I applied very late and worried that I would miss the deadline for this batch.…
RC: Week 2 Table of Contents Building a social connection Building this website Getting focused on project Setting intention on events to attend Building a social connection This week I kept talking and meeting with people, a combination of scheduled talks and impromptu meetings in the hub and especially the kitchen (especially especially the coffee machine). I found the coffee bot to be a good…
RC: Week 3 Table of Contents This is now a remote RC for me Sharing and pairing Presentations Pairing Impossible day This is now a remote RC for me I moved to NY just a couple of months before RC started. In order to get settled I need to fix my J2 visa as my partner has a J1 visa already. To do this I had to return to Sweden (where I am currently in the area of Malmo and Lund where some of my…
RC: Week 4 Table of Contents Zig-zags in my road Machine learning project Learning algorithms Zig-zags in my road This week was a bit all over the place. I felt like I got some things done, but on the other hand I also felt like I lacked some focus with respect to the project. Often I feel that I overestimate what I can get done in a day; I see this in my daily checkins as I often have several…
Building this website Table of Contents Starting out How to structure posts Starting out What spurred me to redo my website and blog is the fact that I got accepted to RC and they encourage us to learn openly. This is something that I've wanted to do for a long time anyway, so I felt that now is the time to get this website up and running. Basically, I know nothing (or very little ) about web…
Diffusion and score-based generative modeling Table of Contents Diffusion and score-based generative modeling Setup Score matching Generating samples Implementation Imports Tractable mixture models Learning the score function Conclusion Reference Diffusion and score-based generative modeling There are great blog posts of what diffusion and score matching is elsewhere, in particular, see Lilian…
Notes RC Retrospect [2024-02-22 Thu] Diffusion and score-based generative modeling [2024-02-05 Mon] Intro to Jax [2024-01-22 Mon] RC Half-batch Retrospect [2024-01-01 Mon] NeurIPS 2023 Retrospect [2023-12-20 Wed] RC: Week 4 [2023-11-27 Mon] RC: Week 3 [2023-11-20 Mon] RC: Week 2 [2023-11-15 Wed] RC: Week 1 [2023-11-14 Tue] Notes for showcasing design [2023-11-10 Fri] Building this website…
Intro to Jax Table of Contents Imports Introduction Backend: XLA What is jax? Jax primitives: jit , grad , vmap jit grad vmap Composition Building a neural network from scratch Creating the neural network Training Imports Some of the libraries we will use throughout this post are imported below. import time import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import matplotlib as mpl import seaborn…
Notes for showcasing design Table of Contents What this is Markup Headlines Headline: 1 level down Lists Tables Links Tags Dates Blocks What this is This note is strictly for showcasing how the things that org-mode has functionality for translates into the actual html output itself. If you don't know what org-mode is, you can read about it here . I'll basically copy/paste the source they used…