Alex Alemi's Blog| blog.alexalemi.com
Going overboard to prove the local newspaper wrong.| Blog.AlexAlemi.com
A simple tool for live editing copyable LaTeX pngs.| Blog.AlexAlemi.com
I'm a big fan of the new generation of reactive notebooks that don't have internal state,| blog.alexalemi.com
Sliderules are cool. I'm rather enamored with them.| blog.alexalemi.com
Let's tour some fun ways to do mental math to various precisions.| blog.alexalemi.com
With the upcoming election, I found myself thinking about the old NYTimes Needle and, more generally, about how to best represent and communicate probabilities.1| blog.alexalemi.com
Modern machine learning is a sea of initialisms: VAE, VIB, VDM, BBB, VB, etc.| blog.alexalemi.com
Performing Bayesian inference requires a full joint distribution over both our| blog.alexalemi.com
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Let's see if we can very quickly prove the Jarzynski Equality and related non-equilibrium statistical mechanics results. Much like the mathematical underpinnings of thermodynamics are pretty mathematically simple, e.g. the existence of a convex surface on which mixed partial derivatives commute, I believe most of the results in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics are similarly due to a rhetorical reinterpretation of a simple mathematical manipulation.| blog.alexalemi.com
The Kullback-Liebler| blog.alexalemi.com
We all stand on the shoulders of giants.| blog.alexalemi.com
Benford's Law is the| blog.alexalemi.com
Years ago I decided that I didn't know how to tie any knots and needed to| blog.alexalemi.com
Diffusion models have made quite a splash, especially after the open-source release of Stable Diffusion. What are diffusion models, where does the loss come from and what does a simple example look like? I've recently helped open-source a simple, pedagogical, self-contained| blog.alexalemi.com