# neural network (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 112 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover neural network. Page: Feed: --- ## [Data Quality Is Still the Foundation of Information Science](https://taxodiary.com/2026/08/data-quality-is-still-the-foundation-of-information-science/) _2026-08-21 · Melody Smith · Taxodiary_ For information science professionals in higher education, data quality is hardly a new concern. Long before generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), machine learning and advanced analytics entered the conversation, the principle was simple: information systems can only be as trustworthy as the data they contain. This important topic came to us from IT Brief and their… ## [Lesson 6: Building the QueryUnderstandingAgent](https://aieworks.substack.com/p/lesson-6-building-the-queryunderstandingagent) _2026-08-20 · AI Engineering · Hands On "AI Engineering"_ Today we build: ## [Why AI Still Needs Human Insight](https://taxodiary.com/2026/08/why-ai-still-needs-human-insight/) _2026-08-20 · Melody Smith · Taxodiary_ Artificial intelligence (AI) can process millions of data points in seconds, identify patterns humans might miss and automate tasks that once consumed hours. That makes AI an extraordinarily powerful tool for data analysis. But a tool is exactly what it is. Tech Target brought this topic to our attention in their article, “Will AI replace… ## [Reinforcement Learning Part 14: Baselines, the Advantage Function, and Actor-Critic](https://shawnhymel.com/3705/reinforcement-learning-part-14-baselines-the-advantage-function-and-actor-critic/) _2026-08-19 · ShawnHymel · Shawn Hymel_ In the previous post, we ended with a straightforward application of the policy gradient in the REINFORCE algorithm, which proves to be a useful stepping stone in our deep reinforcement learning (RL) journey. Here, we updated the parameters of the policy approximator (often a neural network) using this formula: Notice that we are using the \[…\] ## SciPy 0.1 was released on this day in 2001 _2026-08-19 · janmr.com_ SciPy 0.1 was released on this day in 2001 https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-August/106419.html ## [AI and Unstructured Data: Finding Meaning in the Mess](https://taxodiary.com/2026/08/ai-and-unstructured-data-finding-meaning-in-the-mess/) _2026-08-19 · Melody Smith · Taxodiary_ Organizations have never lacked data. The bigger problem has been figuring out what to do with all of it, especially the information that doesn’t fit neatly into rows and columns. This interesting and important topic came to us from CDO Magazine in their article, “Why AI Changes Unstructured Data: Data X-Ray’s Kyle DuPont on Metadata… ## [QF Academy joins the UK Quantum Hackathon 2026](https://quantumformalism.substack.com/p/qf-academy-joins-the-uk-quantum-hackathon) _2026-08-18 · Quantum Formalism (QF) · Quantum Formalism_ The UK Quantum Hackathon, organised by the National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC), brings together early-career researchers, end-user organisations and quantum computing providers to explore practical quantum computing use cases. ## [Better Data, Better Intelligence](https://taxodiary.com/2026/08/better-data-better-intelligence/) _2026-08-18 · Melody Smith · Taxodiary_ Artificial intelligence (AI) may get the headlines, but its effectiveness still depends on something far less glamorous: data. That is where FAIR data becomes increasingly important. This interesting topic came to us from Nature in their article, “Advancing FAIR data towards comparable, organized, predictive AI-ready data for community validation.” FAIR stands for Findable, Accessible,… ## [Lesson 5: Reranking — Improving on Raw Retrieval Order](https://aieworks.substack.com/p/lesson-5-reranking-improving-on-raw) _2026-08-17 · AI Engineering · Hands On "AI Engineering"_ Today we build: ## [How Emerging Technology Is Reshaping Cloud Computing](https://taxodiary.com/2026/08/how-emerging-technology-is-reshaping-cloud-computing/) _2026-08-17 · Melody Smith · Taxodiary_ Cloud computing has been one of the defining technologies of the digital era, giving organizations access to computing power, storage and applications without requiring them to build and maintain everything themselves. Now artificial intelligence (AI) is changing that equation again. AI is not simply another workload moving to the cloud. It is influencing how cloud… ## [Dissecting Series A Rounds (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/UoEq1oh4Yv5E) _2026-08-17 · **Sponsored**_ Two real Series A cases: timelines, investor sequencing, and common founder mistakes. ## [Latent Lie-Poisson Neural Networks (LLPNNs): Discovering the motion of Lie-Poisson systems through observable data and latent dynamics](https://quantumformalism.substack.com/p/latent-lie-poisson-neural-networks) _2026-08-17 · Quantum Formalism (QF) · Quantum Formalism_ In this session, we reviewed ‘Latent Lie-Poisson Neural Networks (LLPNNs): Discovering the motion of Lie-Poisson systems through observable data and latent dynamics’, a paper on learning physical dynamics when the variables we can observe are not necessarily the full dynamical state. ## Introduction to the Finite Element Method: Weak Formulation of Elliptic PDEs _2026-08-16 · janmr.com_ Introduction to the Finite Element Method: Weak Formulation of Elliptic PDEs https://janmr.com/posts/finite-element-method/continuous/elliptic-weak-form/ ## [Fields Medal Hour Part 1: Yu Deng’s Path to the Fields Medal](https://quantumformalism.substack.com/p/fields-medal-hour-part-1-yu-dengs) _2026-08-14 · Quantum Formalism (QF) · Quantum Formalism_ The HD recording of our first live session honouring the 2026 Fields medallists is now available below. ## [Week 25-26: Natural Language Processing (NLP)](https://aieworks.substack.com/p/week-25-26-natural-language-processing) _2026-08-14 · sdr · Hands On "AI Engineering"_ NLP Intelligence Platform: From Fragmented NLP Scripts to a Unified Production Stack ## [Garbage In, Garbage Out: Why Are We Still Having This Conversation?](https://taxodiary.com/2026/08/garbage-in-garbage-out-why-are-we-still-having-this-conversation/) _2026-08-14 · Melody Smith · Taxodiary_ Artificial intelligence (AI) may be advancing at breakneck speed, but one stubborn truth hasn’t changed: AI is only as good as the data behind it. RT Insights brought this topic to us in their article, “Why AI Systems Are Only as Good as the Data Being Fed into Them“. This is not new news. “Garbage… ## [Lesson 4: Hybrid Search — Combining Keyword and Vector Retrieval](https://aieworks.substack.com/p/lesson-4-hybrid-search-combining) _2026-08-13 · AI Engineering · Hands On "AI Engineering"_ Today we build: ## [From Information to Action: Turning Data into Better Decisions](https://taxodiary.com/2026/08/from-information-to-action-turning-data-into-better-decisions/) _2026-08-13 · Melody Smith · Taxodiary_ Organizations today have access to more data than ever before. Customer behavior, operational performance, financial trends, market activity and employee insights can all be measured and analyzed. But having data and making good decisions with it are two very different things. This interesting topic came to us from IDB in their article, “How Can Governments… ## [What will happen in the 2030s](https://thenextwavefutures.wordpress.com/2026/08/13/what-is-coming-in-the-2030s/) _2026-08-13 · thenextwavefutures · the next wave_ We already know quite a lot about the shape of the coming decade. The question is how best to manage it. ## [AI Chatbots Comparison 2026](https://www.thrivewithai.live/ai-chatbots) _2026-08-13 · Thrive With AI - AI Education & Resources_ Compare ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity and more AI chatbots ## [Best AI Assistants 2026](https://www.thrivewithai.live/ai-assistants) _2026-08-13 · Thrive With AI - AI Education & Resources_ Top 10 AI assistants for productivity, coding, writing and research ## [8.1% APY Plus Free Stock (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/s40xiFVV1Eq2) _2026-08-13 · **Sponsored**_ Claim 8.1% APY and up to $1,030 in SK hynix and Nvidia stock. ## [LLM Comparison Guide](https://www.thrivewithai.live/llms) _2026-08-13 · Thrive With AI - AI Education & Resources_ Compare GPT-5, Claude 4, Gemini 3, DeepSeek V3 and 10+ more LLMs ## [What is Artificial Intelligence?](https://www.thrivewithai.live/what-is-ai) _2026-08-13 · Thrive With AI - AI Education & Resources_ Complete guide to AI fundamentals, types, and applications ## [Generative AI Explained](https://www.thrivewithai.live/generative-ai) _2026-08-13 · Thrive With AI - AI Education & Resources_ Understanding generative AI, diffusion models, and transformers ## [AI Platforms Comparison](https://www.thrivewithai.live/ai-platforms) _2026-08-13 · Thrive With AI - AI Education & Resources_ Compare OpenAI, Google Cloud AI, Azure, AWS, and Anthropic ## [ChatGPT-4 Complete Guide](https://www.thrivewithai.live/chatgpt-4) _2026-08-13 · Thrive With AI - AI Education & Resources_ Everything about ChatGPT-4, features, pricing, and use cases ## [DeepSeek V3 Review](https://www.thrivewithai.live/deepseek-v3) _2026-08-13 · Thrive With AI - AI Education & Resources_ DeepSeek V3 model review, benchmarks, and comparison ## [Midjourney vs DALL-E](https://www.thrivewithai.live/midjourney-vs-dalle) _2026-08-13 · Thrive With AI - AI Education & Resources_ AI image generators compared - Midjourney vs DALL-E 3 ## [AI Interview Questions](https://www.thrivewithai.live/interview) _2026-08-13 · Thrive With AI - AI Education & Resources_ 300+ AI/ML interview questions for engineers and data scientists ## [Free AI Tools](https://www.thrivewithai.live/tools) _2026-08-13 · Thrive With AI - AI Education & Resources_ Free AI career tools - salary calculator, resume checker, prompt generator ## [AI Glossary](https://www.thrivewithai.live/glossary) _2026-08-13 · Thrive With AI - AI Education & Resources_ 200+ AI/ML terms explained - from algorithms to transformers ## [Web Coding With AI, Live (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/zN1oKXoMP8pU) _2026-08-13 · **Sponsored**_ Collaborative screen sharing with simultaneous remote control, open source. ## [What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)?](https://www.thrivewithai.live/glossary/undefined) _2026-08-13 · Thrive With AI - AI Education & Resources_ undefined ## [Have You Seen This Statue?](https://quantumformalism.substack.com/p/have-you-seen-this-statue-9f5) _2026-08-12 · Jac Novak · Quantum Formalism_ Alexander Grothendieck: The Traveller ## [Peer Review in the Age of AI: Is It Time for an Upgrade?](https://taxodiary.com/2026/08/peer-review-in-the-age-of-ai-is-it-time-for-an-upgrade/) _2026-08-12 · Melody Smith · Taxodiary_ For generations, peer review has been a cornerstone of scholarly publishing. Before research enters the academic record, experts evaluate its methodology, evidence, originality and conclusions. The system is imperfect, but its purpose remains essential: protecting the credibility and integrity of scholarship. The Scholarly Kitchen brought this interesting topic to our attention in their… ## [Reinforcement Learning Part 13: Policy Gradient Causality Trick and REINFORCE](https://shawnhymel.com/3648/reinforcement-learning-part-13-policy-gradient-causality-trick-and-reinforce/) _2026-08-11 · ShawnHymel · Shawn Hymel_ In the previous post, we showed how we can substitute our usual ε-greedy policy with a parameterized approximation (often a neural network), we then derived the policy gradient theorem required to optimize this approximator function, and demonstrated how it can be estimated using Monte Carlo sampling. At the very end, we pointed out that the \[…\] ## [Data Layers and Semantic Layers: Where AI Finds Meaning](https://taxodiary.com/2026/08/data-layers-and-semantic-layers-where-ai-finds-meaning/) _2026-08-11 · Melody Smith · Taxodiary_ Artificial intelligence (AI) depends on data, but having access to enormous amounts of data does not automatically mean an AI system understands what that data means. That distinction helps explain the relationship between two important components of modern AI applications: the data layer and the semantic layer. DATAVERSITY brought this topic to our attention in… ## [Lesson 3: Embeddings — Turning Text Into Searchable Vectors](https://aieworks.substack.com/p/lesson-3-embeddings-turning-text) _2026-08-10 · AI Engineering · Hands On "AI Engineering"_ Today we build: ## [Deep Learning: How AI Is Expanding the Reach of Machine Intelligence](https://taxodiary.com/2026/08/deep-learning-how-ai-is-expanding-the-reach-of-machine-intelligence/) _2026-08-10 · Melody Smith · Taxodiary_ Artificial intelligence (AI) is often discussed as though it is a single technology. In reality, AI is an umbrella encompassing many approaches designed to enable computers to perform tasks that traditionally required human intelligence. Machine learning sits beneath that umbrella, and deep learning is a specialized and increasingly powerful branch of machine learning. Understanding the… ## [Visualising How Neural Networks Learn](https://daniel-bethell.co.uk/posts/visualising-embeddings/) _2026-08-10 · Home Page on Daniel Bethell_ Neural networks learn complex internal representations of their inputs, but these representations are usually difficult to inspect directly. In this post, I constrain an image classifier to a two-dimensional embedding space and interactively visualise how different training objectives organise that space over time. ## TheoremDB — A public workspace for machine mathematics: open problems, permanent records of proofs and attempts, evidence and credit _2026-08-09 · janmr.com_ TheoremDB — A public workspace for machine mathematics: open problems, permanent records of proofs and attempts, evidence and credit https://theoremdb.org ## [Hype Fast, Verify Later: The Incentive Problem in AI Mathematical Breakthroughs](https://quantumformalism.substack.com/p/hype-fast-verify-later-the-incentive) _2026-08-08 · Quantum Formalism (QF) · Quantum Formalism_ At Quantum Formalism (QF), we have been following the progress of AI in mathematics with real interest. ## [Can agentic AI really do research?](https://fetchdecodeexecute.substack.com/p/can-agentic-models-really-do-research) _2026-08-07 · Michael Lones · Fetch Decode Execute_ And what's going to happen to us if they can't? ## [When Meaning Meets Machines: AI, Semantics and Knowledge Graphs](https://taxodiary.com/2026/08/when-meaning-meets-machines-ai-semantics-and-knowledge-graphs/) _2026-08-07 · Melody Smith · Taxodiary_ Semantics and knowledge graphs have been quietly doing important work for years. Semantics helps systems understand that words, concepts and context are related. Knowledge graphs turn those relationships into structured networks of people, places, products, ideas and facts. This interesting topic came to us from Bio-IT World in their article, “Trends from the Trenches: Why… ## [The Irony of an Unnamed Medal](https://quantumformalism.substack.com/p/the-irony-of-an-unnamed-medal) _2026-08-06 · Jac Novak · Quantum Formalism_ How a medal born in one of the most divided periods of modern mathematical history became a symbol of the international mathematical community. ## [Ceph 101](https://leelearns.bearblog.dev/ceph-101/) _2026-08-06 · leelearns · Lee Learns_ Ceph is a distributed storage system built that consists of a few daemon processes. OSDs - object storage daemons are the workers that actually store bytes, one per disk. your data gets broken into objects and spread across OSDs monitors (mons) - hold the cluster map and know which OSDs exist, which are up, where data lives. RADOS - reliable autonomic distributed object store. the object layer… ## Introduction to the Finite Element Method: Example of Weak Solution to the Poisson Problem _2026-08-06 · janmr.com_ Introduction to the Finite Element Method: Example of Weak Solution to the Poisson Problem https://janmr.com/posts/finite-element-method/continuous/poisson-weak-example/ ## [Lesson 2: Ingestion — Getting Real Data Into the System](https://aieworks.substack.com/p/lesson-2-ingestion-getting-real-data) _2026-08-06 · AI Engineering · Hands On "AI Engineering"_ Today we build: ## [Viewing HTML pages from Github.com](https://leelearns.bearblog.dev/viewing-html-pages-from-githubcom/) _2026-08-05 · leelearns · Lee Learns_ Today a colleague shared some mockups via a Github.com link. The link led me to the raw HTML file. I don't wanna see that, I wanna see the mockup. I couldn't find a button in the Github UI that allowed me to do that. I could download the file and open it up in my browser, but I would rather be able to do it in one click. So I worked with an agent to build this browser extension that lets me right… ## [Trusting self-signed certificates on a Macbook](https://leelearns.bearblog.dev/trusting-self-signed-certificates-on-a-macbook/) _2026-08-05 · leelearns · Lee Learns_ Sometimes I need to create self-signed certificates and interact with an application in the browser. The browser and OS don't really like that. But I know its secure, and temporary, so I want to tell my computer to chill out and trust the CA. Command I use to generate the self-signed cert: openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 \\ -keyout mycert.key -out mycert.crt \\ -subj… ## [The Fields Medal Is Not the Nobel Prize of Mathematics](https://quantumformalism.substack.com/p/the-fields-medal-is-not-the-nobel) _2026-08-04 · Quantum Formalism (QF) · Quantum Formalism_ Dear QF Community, ## A peer-reviewed video journal for mathematical research talks _2026-08-03 · janmr.com_ A peer-reviewed video journal for mathematical research talks https://www.mathematicaldiscourse.org