Tag: diagrams

As a stellar astrophysicist myself, I can’t help but falling in love with this diagram, which is the key in the understanding of stellar evolution and stellar population analysis. This tool was developed independently by Ejnar Hertzsprung and Henry Norris Russell in the early 1900s. What it...

The figure above is what we call a Voronoi diagram. The black dots represent the shops, and the entire rectangle represents the town. On basis of proximity to shops, the town is divided into colorful cells! Such diagrams that encode proximity information, help us (quickly) answer questions...

Uncertainty calibration is one of the most misunderstood concepts in machine learning. It can be encapsulated in this simple question: “Are you taking an umbrella given the above probabilities of rain?” We use the concepts of subjective probability and uncertainty calibration in our d...