Tag: Functions

What do contemporary archeologists, art collectors, and funerary directors have in common? All groups deal with cultural heritage and all of them are dominated by the “cult of the original atoms”. By this I mean the (implicit) belief that the identity of an object or person is tied to th...

Let’s kick off by first understanding what exactly is a loss function. A loss function is a magic wand that converts theoretical concepts into practical reality. Loss function helps us identify and understand the efficiency of a statistical function / model by estimating the variation of predi...

In past articles, we have seen how neural networks approximate non-linearities and the reason for their extraordinary efficiency. In this article, let us expand our understanding by exploring loss functions. Firstly, what exactly is a loss function, and what purpose does it serve? To answer our q...

Understanding Probability Density Functions (PDFs) is foundational in the realm of statistics, probability, and investment. These mathematical functions are indispensable for studying continuous random variables. A Probability Density Function, while not a probability, offers deep insights into the ...

Deep learning has revolutionized various fields, from computer vision and natural language processing to healthcare and finance. One of the key components that enable the success of deep neural networks is the activation function. Activation functions introduce non-linearity into neural networks, al...

We like to think of ourselves as singular beings, as individuals with one brain, mind and consciousness. But this is mostly a consequence of the fact that we can treat our hyper-connected brain as one network. Yet that network isn’t perfectly uniform. Some parts have specific func...

Shell Scripting is a programming technique that involves writing scripts or programs in a shell language, which is a command-line interface used in Linux and Unix operating systems. Shell scripts are used to automate tasks, execute commands, and manipulate system resources through a set of commands ...

Certainly! Here’s a collection of essential Kotlin functions that every developer should know, along with examples for each function: let: Use let to execute a block of code on a non-null object. val name: String? = "John" name?.let { println(&qu...

When I first started with Terraform to write configuration to deploy infrastructure on AWS and GCP, I did not know how powerful Terraform is. I wrote configuration code like an armature — repeated code blocks, hardcoded values, bloated and inflexible infrastructure configuration code. It t...