A primer on universal function approximation with deep learning (in Torch and R)
Arthur C. Clarke famously stated that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” No current technology embodies this statement …
Category Archives: mathematics
Using Occam’s Razor to solve genius math puzzles
Math puzzles always tickle the brain, and this one has tickled quite a few on LinkedIn. Why are these puzzles …
Modeling data with functional programming – lists
UPDATE: This draft is obsolete. Please see latest draft at The latest update of my book includes a chapter on …
The Data-Driven Weekly #1.2
Last week witnessed a number of exciting announcements from the big data and machine learning space. What it shows is …
Understanding a basis in linear algebra
Chapter 7 of Cherney, Denton, and Waldron begins by introducing the concept of a basis. The essence of a basis …
How to stay 29 forever (and other secrets of math)
It’s a fact of life that we age. As we age, the more we wish we didn’t. What if I …
The secrets of a linear world exposed
Like many concepts in mathematics, linearity has multiple interpretations and meanings. What do we mean when we say something is …
Deducing the mechanics of matrix multiplication
For question 1.4.6 of Cherney, Denton, and Waldron, there is a question about how matrix multiplication works. Indeed, part (b) …
Probability and Monte Carlo methods
This is a lecture post for my students in the CUNY MS Data Analytics program. In this series of lectures …
Matrix factorizations and social network graph analysis
This is a lecture post for my students in the CUNY MS Data Analytics program. In this series of lectures …
Cartesian Faith 