Carlos Miguel Patiño
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  • Quantifying Prediction Difficulty

    How can we tell if an example is difficult for a model?

    6 min read   ·   December 22, 2024

    2024

  • Mean vs. Total Cross-Entropy Loss

    Mainly a reminder to myself after wasting a full day debugging gradients

    4 min read   ·   November 6, 2024

    2024

  • Initializing the Bias in Output Layers

    Should you initialize the bias in the output layer to predict the positive rate?

    6 min read   ·   February 29, 2024

    2024

  • Why is Numpy Faster than Pure Python?

    TLDR; Numpy leverages contiguous memory allocation and vectorizes operations over entire arrays.

    5 min read   ·   February 2, 2024

    2024