Julien

Isaac Julien’s canalside London studio was designed by David Adjaye at the same time the architect was working on his National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC; its library space, where we talk, is warm, luxurious and boat-like. Adjaye’s team has also designed Julien’s imminent career retrospective at Tate Britain, which will display the artist and film-maker’s exploration of migration, history, sexuality and culture through composite multiscreen installations that can make you feel as if…

“In another life we were arsonists,” goes a lyric on this first album from Boygenius, the supergroup consisting of Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus – three of the most thoughtful, wry and quietly powerful indie-rock songwriters of the past decade. It’s a telling line for music that blazes with feeling, and is unabashed about drolly skewering and examining the male ego (see: songs about internalised notions of masculinity and lines such as “And I am not an old man having an existential crisis at a Buddhist…

Visualize the differences and similarities between gradient descent, gradient descent with momentum, RMSprop, and AdamPhoto by Kristen Munk from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/photo/photo-of-person-walking-on-unpaved-pathway-2599546/If you are like me, equations do not speak for themselves. To understand them, I need to see what they do with a concrete example. In this blog post, I apply this visualization principle to popular optimization algorithms used in machine learning.Nowadays, the Adam algorithm is a very popular…

The art of combining neural networks, fixed points and ordinary differential equationsSource: https://pixabay.com/photos/sea-waves-nature-light-ripples-7484743/Recently, smart researchers have realized that we can combine seemingly unrelated ideas to reinterpret how neural networks work and how we train them. First, if we increase the number of hidden layers of a neural network toward infinity, we can see the output of the neural network as a fixed point problem. Second, there is a deep connection between neural networks…

Screenshot: The CWIn what was arguably the great flex ever seen on a CW show, Percival sent a series of biblical plagues upon the town, including killing every first-born person in Riverdale. Sons, daughters, the elderly, etc.—all of ‘em. Archie, Jughead, Toni, and Fangs all died, leaving Betty, Veronica, Tabitha, and Cheryl wondering what the hell to do next. Please note that I almost certainly have done a “22 Insane Things That Happened on Riverdale” list on the last five episodes of season six alone. (s6, ep18)…