Writing
Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra
Some follow up questions from my video on Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra
A View into Government Cybersecurity
I attended the Rocky Mountain Cyberspace Symposium to understand government and industry efforts to bolster the nation's cybersecurity.
Reinforcement Learning at Lyft
A few comments on the Reinforcement Learning work done by my colleagues at Lyft
When does the Delta Method approximation work?
I explore when the Delta Method approximation works and fails.
Good Data Science is Mostly Dispatch
Most of what explains a job well done is the choice of tool.
Summaries
This briefly summarizes each part of the series on Probabilistic Graphical Models.
Notation Guide
Notation can be confusing. This post is to address it directly.
Part 7: Structure Learning
Structure learning precedes parameter learning, whereby a graph or similarly abstract structure must be learnd from data. Doing so presents a formidable integration, but with techniques and approximations, a fruitful search over structures can be performed. For theoretical reasons, the task is considerably easier in the Bayesian Network case than in the alternative.
Part 6: Learning Parameters of a Markov Network
The theory of Markov Network parameter learning is intuitive and instructive, but it exposes an intractable normalizer, forbidding the task from reducing to easier ones. Ultimately, the task is hard.
Part 5: Learning Parameters of a Bayesian Network
Learning parameters of a Bayesian Network enjoys a decomposition that it makes a much friendly endeavor than that of it's cousin, the Markov Network.