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The Award Budget Cuts Problem

Finding the grant cap that will impact the least number of people

Posted by Jean A. Flaherty on March 8, 2020

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The Longest Valid Parentheses Problem

Finding the longest valid parentheses substring

Posted by Jean A. Flaherty on March 7, 2020

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The Benefits of Cross Entropy Loss

A look into the advantages of using cross entropy loss for classification problems.

Posted by Jean A. Flaherty on July 22, 2019

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Batch Normalization (Part 2)

The smoothening effect of batch normalization.

Posted by Jean A. Flaherty on April 28, 2019

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Batch Normalization (Part 1)

The myths and truth surrounding batch normalization.

Posted by Jean A. Flaherty on April 10, 2019

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