In the last few years, deep neural networks have dominated pattern recognition. They blew the previous state of the art out of the water for many computer vision tasks. Voice recognition is also mo…| Christopher Olah's Blog
On a website called fanfiction.net, users write millions of stories about their favorite stories. They have diverse opinions about them. They love some stories, and hate others. The opinions are no…| Christopher Olah's Blog
Recently, there’s been a great deal of excitement and interest in deep neural networks because they’ve achieved breakthrough results in areas such as computer vision. However, there remain a number…| Christopher Olah's Blog
Functions of the form $latex G \to \mathbb{R}$ or $latex G \to \mathbb{C}$, where $LATEX G$ is a group, arise in lots of contexts. One very natural way this can happen is to have a probability dist…| Christopher Olah's Blog
(Trigger warning: descriptions of severe animal injury.) Today a squirrel was hit by a car a few feet away from me while I was walking down the side walk.| Christopher Olah's Blog
What is the distribution of the maximum of $latex n$ random variables? What started out a utilitarian question in my exploration of some generalized versions of the secretary problem turns out to b…| Christopher Olah's Blog
I’ve been talking about writing a topology textbook introductory notes on topology for years. Basically since I wrote my Rethinking Topology (or a Personal Topologodicy) post 2 years ago R…| Christopher Olah's Blog
Previously, I discussed training a neural net to clean up images. I’m pleased to say that, using more sophisticated techniques, I’ve since achieved much better results. My latest approa…| Christopher Olah's Blog
For the last few months, every time someone hears that I work with 3D printers they bring up 3D printed guns. I can’t say how many times it has happened in this month alone. And I’m get…| Christopher Olah's Blog
For the last few weeks, I’ve been taking part in a small weekly neural net study group run by Michael Nielsen. It’s been really awesome! Neural nets are very very cool! They’re so…| Christopher Olah's Blog
