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Understanding neural networks | Part 3: Activation function
Part 2 (https://x.com/siddhantangore/status/2085986321705873679) ended with 2 layers and a problem. My second layer did nothing. I had worked out the single layer that produces its exact output, printed both, and...
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Understanding neural networks | Part 2: Writing code
Part 1 (https://x.com/siddhantangore/status/2086546991266648097?s=20): Introduction and my wild thoughts was only English and no code. This is the code. Everything below is a complete file. Copy it, run it, compare...
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Understanding neural networks | Part 1
I decided to build Neural Networks from Scratch in Go. The book is written by Sentdex & friend and every line of code in it is Python, most of it NumPy. That last part is the reason I picked Go. The book has two spines...
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Go (basic) + Notion on Investments | Part 3: Optimising the system
Part 3: Optimising the system The job was deployed and running. 11 writes, 7.888 seconds. I wanted to know where that went, so I broke it down. AMFI takes about a second. The other seven are eleven requests to Notion,...
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Go (basic) + Notion DB for Investments | Part 2: Packing it up
If you have followed along from Part 1 of this: https://x.com/siddhantangore/status/2085833331195937227 What we will building now The program works. It runs when I open a terminal and type a command. Which means I have...
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Go (basic) + Notion DB for Investments | Part 1: Setting up
I keep eleven mutual funds in a Notion table. Every column in it was right except two: the price of each fund, and the date that price was published. Those two I typed in by hand, most evenings, reading them off my...
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Michael — A Surprisingly Good Biopic of the King of Pop
We got to the theatre a little late; my colleague and I both assumed the first chunk would be ads. Nope. The movie had already started and I walked in about 10 minutes deep. Lesson learned. The movie itself Honestly, it...
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Podcast Inference: Elon Musk x Nikhil Kamath
Morning Routine and Cognitive Optimization Elon Musk begins each day with a single cup of coffee. He sees it as a useful cognitive stimulant enough to activate the mind without overwhelming it. His approach is...
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Build Your Own Mini-NAS with Raspberry Pi 5 + 128 GB USB Drive
What you're making (in kid-sized words) Think of your Raspberry Pi like a tiny library computer at home. Your USB stick is the bookshelf. We'll teach the Pi to share that bookshelf with everyone on your home Wi-Fi or...
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First Principles Thinking
First Principles Thinking First principles thinking is a fancy way of saying "think like a scientist." It involves breaking down complicated problems into basic elements and then reassembling them from the ground up....
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