What are geometric neural networks?
Some notes for a Clifford algebra NN study group
Posts by Year
2024
Why mathematicians should care about Large Language Models
What implications does modern AI have for mathematics?
2023
Neural networks in single-celled organisms
How does nature process information without a nervous system?
Predicting the rank of an elliptic curve
An application of data science to a problem of pure mathematics
Zombie bots and neural bots
Friday afternoon fun with genetic algorithms and neural networks
How to code interactive graphics with R shiny
Behind the scenes of the blog ‘A Topological Trick for Data Visualisation’
Language barriers in global conservation
Conservation of species across language barriers
2022
Navigating the PLOS ONE topic tree
Crawling the PLOS ONE site to figure out the tree of all subtopics
2021
COP26: seeing the wood for the trees
Third of three COP26 blogs - what’s a ‘safe’ carbon budget?
COP26: why 1.5 degrees?
Second of three COP26 blogs - how to think about global temperature increase
COP26: the climate crisis today
First in a series of three blogs at the start of COP26
2019
Watching a neural network learn a Markov chain
If the state of a neural network state is represented by the outputs of its hidden units, what does this look like in the controlled scenario of inputs coming from a known Markov chain?
Mean-squared error versus cross-entropy
A simple demo comparing the Euclidean and cross-entropy ‘distances’ on trinomial probability distributions
Using topology to help visualise word vectors
Picturing 72,000 words from Wikipedia content by their word2vec representations
A demo of the $t$-test
An interactive demo of how the 2-sample t-test works
A topological trick for data visualisation
Using the ‘mapper’ construction to visualise how 7,291 hand-written digits are arranged in pixel space
2018
Exploring a computer network from its netflow traffic II
Second of two blogs visualising computers on a network from their netflow traffic
Exploring a computer network from its netflow traffic I
First of two blogs visualising computers on a network from their netflow traffic