In 2019, Rich Sutton authored an essay entitled “The Bitter Lesson”, where he made the observation that general purpose methods that leverage computation eventually win over bespoke solutions that incorporate human domain knowledge. The essay has been the source of debate and evoked both positive and negative reactions.
Within the …
more ...Ben Recht got my attention with a tweet about his blog post "The Higgs discovery did not take place.” I’m generally a fan of Ben’s writing, but I think he’s off base on a number of issues, and I’ll explain why. [Updated Oct 23rd, 2024]
more ...I've been wanting to add some semi-automated way to handle papers and bibliography information in this website. I found pelican-bibtex and pelican-cite. I'll need to look into pelican-bibtex to see if I can make a nice automated page based on a .bib file, but pelican-cite looked pretty easy to setup …
While updating this website, I considered migrating it to Sphinx based on Chris Holdgraf's blog post and my recent experience with JupyterBooks for Statistics and Data Science for Physicists. Chris has this nice timeline on his about page.
I'm not ready to migrate this website away from pelican, so I …
more ...We held the third Machine Learning for Physical Sciences workshop at NeurIPS2020 on December 11, 2020.
We had more than 150 posters and more than 200 people attend the poster session on Gather Town. Gather Town worked surprisingly well.
more ...We …
I've just started to collect material that I use for a class at NYU into a Jupyter book. It's here:
https://cranmer.github.io/intro-exp-phys-book/introduction
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