Billiards Meets Deep Learning (and Some Other Stuff)
In 2017, I had just gotten a Raspberry Pi and was looking for something fun to do with it. At the time, I was working in downtown Boston on the 20th floor in a tricked out office space, replete with cornhole and foosball and pool tables. The pool table caught my eye and the wheels…
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As someone who works in analytics and the exact sciences, I’ve spent a career seeking optimal results. “Optimal” has two meanings in my world. First, it’s about being thorough and rigorous, having explored all reasonable options and parameters before settling on a result. Second, it’s about truly optimizing something – finding a specific configuration or…
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I’ve often wondered whether I’m a generalist or a specialist. In technical work, we tend to celebrate depth: mastering a specific domain until you know every aspect of it. But many of the most pressing problems today don’t fit neatly inside a single box. Specialists dive deeply into one area — signal processing, embedded design,…
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