Sam Stites

Sam Stites https://stites.io/ 2018-11-19T00:00:00Z Sam Stites VAE Interpretability https://stites.io/post/2018-11-19/vae-interpretability/ 2018-11-19T00:00:00Z 2018-11-19T00:00:00Z Hasktorch v0.0.1 https://stites.io/post/2018-11-02/hasktorch-release/ 2018-11-02T00:00:00Z 2018-11-02T00:00:00Z Thoughts about Hyperparameters in DL https://stites.io/post/2018-08-24/hyperparameters/ 2018-08-24T00:00:00Z 2018-08-24T00:00:00Z GAP layers https://stites.io/post/2018-08-23/gap-layer/ 2018-08-23T00:00:00Z 2018-08-23T00:00:00Z Reviewing LSTMs with ascii art https://stites.io/post/2018-08-22/lstm-notes/ 2018-08-22T00:00:00Z 2018-08-22T00:00:00Z ML Notes: autoencoders and dropout https://stites.io/post/2018-08-21/more-dl-notes/ 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Different ways to slice a network when transfer learning https://stites.io/post/2018-08-15/different-ways-to-slice/ 2018-08-15T00:00:00Z 2018-08-15T00:00:00Z Data augmentation is a hack (albeit nessecary) https://stites.io/post/2018-08-14/data-augmentation-is-a-hack/ 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z git find my bugs https://stites.io/post/2018-08-02/git-find-my-bugs/ 2018-08-02T00:00:00Z 2018-08-02T00:00:00Z Nixing (notes) https://stites.io/post/2018-07-18/nixing/ 2018-07-18T00:00:00Z 2018-07-18T00:00:00Z RL Notes (short) https://stites.io/post/2018-07-11/rl-notes/ 2018-07-11T00:00:00Z 2018-07-11T00:00:00Z Machine Learning Debugging, Unit Tests, and Production Torch https://stites.io/post/2018-07-10/debugging-ml/ 2018-07-10T00:00:00Z 2018-07-10T00:00:00Z Deep Reinforcement Learning that Matters (1709.06560) https://stites.io/post/2018-06-12/deep-reinforcement-learning-that-matters/ 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z GeForce, Quadro and Tesla https://stites.io/post/2018-01-30/geforce-quadros-and-teslas/ 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z What about that pesky 'month' feature? https://stites.io/post/2018-01-25/month-percentiles/ 2018-01-25T00:00:00Z 2018-01-25T00:00:00Z Structured Deep Learning (alt: Embeddings are not just for words) https://stites.io/post/2018-01-23/structured-deep-learning/ 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Clipping, that extra bump for loss criteria https://stites.io/post/2018-01-22/clipping-for-multiclass/ 2018-01-22T00:00:00Z 2018-01-22T00:00:00Z Sigmoid activation https://stites.io/post/2018-01-12/sigmoid-activation/ 2018-01-12T00:00:00Z 2018-01-12T00:00:00Z Cyclical Learning Rates for Training Neural Networks (paper) https://stites.io/post/2018-01-11/cyclical-learning-rates/ 2018-01-11T00:00:00Z 2018-01-11T00:00:00Z Activation functions and non-linearity https://stites.io/post/2017-12-27/activation-functions-and-non-linearity/ 2017-12-27T00:00:00Z 2017-12-27T00:00:00Z Hyperparameter guidance for ANNs https://stites.io/post/2017-12-27/hyperparameter-guidance/ 2017-12-27T00:00:00Z 2017-12-27T00:00:00Z Measuring the Size of Neural Networks https://stites.io/post/2017-12-27/measuring-the-size-of-neural-networks/ 2017-12-27T00:00:00Z 2017-12-27T00:00:00Z Optimization stream-of-conciousness https://stites.io/post/2017-12-23/optimization-notes/ 2017-12-23T00:00:00Z 2017-12-23T00:00:00Z More sane python with Maybe.py https://stites.io/post/2017-10-31/maybe-py/ 2017-10-31T00:00:00Z 2017-10-31T00:00:00Z BIC, DIC, and CV https://stites.io/post/2017-10-09/bic-dic-cv/ 2017-10-09T00:00:00Z 2017-10-09T00:00:00Z Share tmux over the wire with gotty https://stites.io/post/2017-10-06/gotty/ 2017-10-06T00:00:00Z 2017-10-06T00:00:00Z A more generous Travis-CI https://stites.io/post/2017-09-13/generous-travis/ 2017-09-13T00:00:00Z 2017-09-13T00:00:00Z DeriveAnyNewtypeReader considered harmful https://stites.io/post/2017-08-31/DeriveAnyNewtypeReader-considered-harmful/ 2017-08-31T00:00:00Z 2017-08-31T00:00:00Z Least Interesting Data (LID) caches https://stites.io/post/2017-07-16/least-interesting-data-caches/ 2017-07-16T00:00:00Z 2017-07-16T00:00:00Z Policy vs Value functions https://stites.io/post/2017-07-16/policy-vs-value-functions/ 2017-07-16T00:00:00Z 2017-07-16T00:00:00Z Tmux time - a one-liner and future thoughts for this site https://stites.io/post/2017-05-19/tmux-time/ 2017-05-19T00:00:00Z 2017-05-19T00:00:00Z Multi-step bootstrapping thoughts https://stites.io/post/2017-05-06/multi-step-bootstrapping/ 2017-05-06T00:00:00Z 2017-05-06T00:00:00Z Prism is like a Lens of Either https://stites.io/post/2017-02-15/prism-is-a-lens-of-either/ 2017-02-15T00:00:00Z 2017-02-15T00:00:00Z Minkowski Error https://stites.io/post/2017-01-02/minkowski-error/ 2017-01-02T00:00:00Z 2017-01-02T00:00:00Z Double brackets https://stites.io/post/2016-11-12/double-brackets/ 2016-11-12T00:00:00Z 2016-11-12T00:00:00Z Typefamily gotchas https://stites.io/post/2016-11-11/typefamily-gotchas/ 2016-11-11T00:00:00Z 2016-11-11T00:00:00Z Intrinsic Fear (paper) https://stites.io/post/2016-11-07/intrinsic-fear/ 2016-11-07T00:00:00Z 2016-11-07T00:00:00Z RecordWildCards as an antipattern https://stites.io/post/2016-10-31/record-wildcards/ 2016-10-31T00:00:00Z 2016-10-31T00:00:00Z Coerce for constant time newtype lists https://stites.io/post/2016-10-29/haskell-coerce/ 2016-10-29T00:00:00Z 2016-10-29T00:00:00Z Count-Min Sketch https://stites.io/post/2016-10-26/count-min-sketch/ 2016-10-26T00:00:00Z 2016-10-26T00:00:00Z Tracing in haskell https://stites.io/post/2016-09-30/tracing-in-haskell/ 2016-09-30T00:00:00Z 2016-09-30T00:00:00Z Regex TIL- Repeating capture groups https://stites.io/post/2016-06-19/regex-til-repeated-captures/ 2016-06-19T00:00:00Z 2016-06-19T00:00:00Z Consensus Algorithms https://stites.io/post/2016-05-18/consensus-algorithms/ 2016-05-18T00:00:00Z 2016-05-18T00:00:00Z Data.Text is encoded as UTF-16! https://stites.io/post/2016-04-12/Data-Text/ 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z K-nearest neighbors https://stites.io/post/2016-04-11/knns/ 2016-04-11T00:00:00Z 2016-04-11T00:00:00Z Memory-mapped files https://stites.io/post/2016-04-10/memory-mapped-files/ 2016-04-10T00:00:00Z 2016-04-10T00:00:00Z Free your Frees https://stites.io/post/2016-02-18/Free-your-Frees/ 2016-02-18T00:00:00Z 2016-02-18T00:00:00Z Found the y-combinator! https://stites.io/post/2016-02-18/found-the-y-combinator/ 2016-02-18T00:00:00Z 2016-02-18T00:00:00Z Left is for errors by notational implementation https://stites.io/post/2016-01-29/left-for-errors/ 2016-01-29T00:00:00Z 2016-01-29T00:00:00Z Infix mappend https://stites.io/post/2016-01-24/infix-mappend/ 2016-01-24T00:00:00Z 2016-01-24T00:00:00Z Orphan Instances https://stites.io/post/2016-01-20/orphan-instances/ 2016-01-20T00:00:00Z 2016-01-20T00:00:00Z Vim to remember https://stites.io/post/2016-01-19/vim-to-remember/ 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Polymorphic types https://stites.io/post/2016-01-12/polymorphic-types/ 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z What's imported from cabal repl https://stites.io/post/2016-01-06/whats-imported-from-cabal-repl/ 2016-01-06T00:00:00Z 2016-01-06T00:00:00Z Browse GHCi https://stites.io/post/2016-01-05/browse-ghci/ 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z JWTs are a no-brainer https://stites.io/post/2016-01-05/jwts-nobrainer/ 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Building json APIs with status code 401 https://stites.io/post/2016-01-04/401-invokes-popup/ 2016-01-04T00:00:00Z 2016-01-04T00:00:00Z OverloadedStrings https://stites.io/post/2015-12-29/OverloadedStrings/ 2015-12-29T00:00:00Z 2015-12-29T00:00:00Z The magic phrase for beginner's mindset https://stites.io/post/2015-12-20/the-magic-phrase-for-beginners-mindset/ 2015-12-20T00:00:00Z 2015-12-20T00:00:00Z Autocomplete your git and thoughts on bash plugin managers https://stites.io/post/2015-12-18/git-autocompletion/ 2015-12-18T00:00:00Z 2015-12-18T00:00:00Z Higher kinded types https://stites.io/post/2015-12-17/higher-kinded-types/ 2015-12-17T00:00:00Z 2015-12-17T00:00:00Z Lift your constructors for healthy data https://stites.io/post/2015-12-16/lifting-data-constructors/ 2015-12-16T00:00:00Z 2015-12-16T00:00:00Z Eq your errors https://stites.io/post/2015-12-15/eq-your-errors/ 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Contra- and Co- variance https://stites.io/post/2015-12-07/contra-co-variants/ 2015-12-07T00:00:00Z 2015-12-07T00:00:00Z Kolmogorov--Smirnov https://stites.io/post/2015-12-02/kolmogorov-smirnov/ 2015-12-02T00:00:00Z 2015-12-02T00:00:00Z Deep Work, Better Engineering, and Machine Learning Research https://stites.io/post/2015-11-24/deep-work/ 2015-11-24T00:00:00Z 2015-11-24T00:00:00Z Defender methods and multiple inheritance https://stites.io/post/2015-10-16/defender-methods-and-multiple-inheritance/ 2015-10-16T00:00:00Z 2015-10-16T00:00:00Z Why Causal States? https://stites.io/post/2015-10-09/why-causal-states/ 2015-10-09T00:00:00Z 2015-10-09T00:00:00Z Haskell N-Ary Trees https://stites.io/post/2015-10-06/haskell-nary-trees/ 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z On Genetic Algorithms vs Others https://stites.io/post/2015-10-06/on-genetic-algorithms/ 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z Eclipse hangs on git status computation https://stites.io/post/2015-09-27/eclipse-hanging-git-status/ 2015-09-27T00:00:00Z 2015-09-27T00:00:00Z Trait Internals https://stites.io/post/2015-05-03/trait-internals/ 2015-05-03T00:00:00Z 2015-05-03T00:00:00Z Self Types in Traits https://stites.io/post/2015-04-25/self-types-in-traits/ 2015-04-25T00:00:00Z 2015-04-25T00:00:00Z Trait Similarity to Classes https://stites.io/post/2015-04-19/trait-similarity-to-classes/ 2015-04-19T00:00:00Z 2015-04-19T00:00:00Z Trait Fields in Scala https://stites.io/post/2015-04-07/trait-fields-in-scala/ 2015-04-07T00:00:00Z 2015-04-07T00:00:00Z Abstract Methods in Scala Traits https://stites.io/post/2015-04-02/abstract-methods-in-scala-traits/ 2015-04-02T00:00:00Z 2015-04-02T00:00:00Z Trait Inheritance https://stites.io/post/2015-03-28/trait-inheritance/ 2015-03-28T00:00:00Z 2015-03-28T00:00:00Z Overriding Traits During Instantiation https://stites.io/post/2015-03-13/overriding-traits-during-instantiation/ 2015-03-13T00:00:00Z 2015-03-13T00:00:00Z Introduction to Scala Traits https://stites.io/post/2015-03-07/introduction-to-scala-traits/ 2015-03-07T00:00:00Z 2015-03-07T00:00:00Z Sparknotes from Rob Eisenbergs Article https://stites.io/post/2015-01-06/sparknotes-from-Rob-Eisenbergs-article/ 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Languages for 2015 https://stites.io/post/2014-12-31/languages-for-2015/ 2014-12-31T00:00:00Z 2014-12-31T00:00:00Z Just shook hands with John Carmak https://stites.io/post/2014-12-19/John-Carmak/ 2014-12-19T00:00:00Z 2014-12-19T00:00:00Z Various Scripts for Bash Statistics https://stites.io/post/2014-11-11/bash-statistics-scripts/ 2014-11-11T00:00:00Z 2014-11-11T00:00:00Z Bash Statistics https://stites.io/post/2014-11-10/bash-statistics/ 2014-11-10T00:00:00Z 2014-11-10T00:00:00Z Manage your git branches https://stites.io/post/2014-09-24/clean-out-git-branches/ 2014-09-24T00:00:00Z 2014-09-24T00:00:00Z Writing a small bootstrap 3 downgrader in sed https://stites.io/post/2014-09-04/bootstrap3-downgrader-in-sed/ 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Idempotence in Programming https://stites.io/post/2014-08-11/idempotence-in-programming/ 2014-08-11T00:00:00Z 2014-08-11T00:00:00Z Rebuilding Angular in simpleNg - Scope Inheritance https://stites.io/post/2014-08-09/simple-ng-scope-inheritance/ 2014-08-09T00:00:00Z 2014-08-09T00:00:00Z Case-sensitive git https://stites.io/post/2014-08-01/case-sensitive-git/ 2014-08-01T00:00:00Z 2014-08-01T00:00:00Z Rebuilding Angular in simpleNg https://stites.io/post/2014-07-22/simple-ng-the-digest-loop/ 2014-07-22T00:00:00Z 2014-07-22T00:00:00Z Hard reset a single file in git https://stites.io/post/2014-07-01/git-reset-a-single-file/ 2014-07-01T00:00:00Z 2014-07-01T00:00:00Z Backbone to Angular Part II https://stites.io/post/2014-06-17/Backbone-to-Angular-Part-II/ 2014-06-17T00:00:00Z 2014-06-17T00:00:00Z Adding forgotten files to your commits https://stites.io/post/2014-06-12/ammend-your-commits/ 2014-06-12T00:00:00Z 2014-06-12T00:00:00Z Moving from Backbone to Angular Part I https://stites.io/post/2014-06-11/Backbone-to-Angular-Part-I/ 2014-06-11T00:00:00Z 2014-06-11T00:00:00Z A useful == in Javascript https://stites.io/post/2014-05-17/A-useful-double-equals-in-javascript/ 2014-05-17T00:00:00Z 2014-05-17T00:00:00Z Node Streams https://stites.io/post/2014-04-16/Node-Streams/ 2014-04-16T00:00:00Z 2014-04-16T00:00:00Z So you want to learn web development? https://stites.io/post/2014-03-02/So-you-want-to-learn-web-development/ 2014-03-02T00:00:00Z 2014-03-02T00:00:00Z Everyday Uses of Javascript Design Patterns https://stites.io/post/2014-02-21/Everyday-uses-of-Javascript-Design-Patterns/ 2014-02-21T00:00:00Z 2014-02-21T00:00:00Z 5 reasons you should use Bookshelf.js https://stites.io/post/2013-12-26/5-reasons-you-should-use-Bookshelfjs/ 2013-12-26T00:00:00Z 2013-12-26T00:00:00Z A Succinct look at Pseudo-Classical Selectors https://stites.io/post/2013-12-08/A-Succinct-look-at-Pseudo-classical-selectors/ 2013-12-08T00:00:00Z 2013-12-08T00:00:00Z Bloom Filters for Data Detectives https://stites.io/post/2013-11-26/Bloom-Filters-for-Data-Detectives/ 2013-11-26T00:00:00Z 2013-11-26T00:00:00Z Backus-Naur Form Grammar https://stites.io/post/2013-11-03/BNF-Grammar/ 2013-11-03T00:00:00Z 2013-11-03T00:00:00Z Building a Backbone Twitter Clone Part 1 Introduction https://stites.io/post/2013-10-17/Backbone-Twitter-Clone-part-1/ 2013-10-17T00:00:00Z 2013-10-17T00:00:00Z