- jmpeax parentI like the surface dots like it is. It gives me two points of reference at the poles, and adds intuition for how long it takes to go around the sphere.
- The description of the algorithm is frustratingly confusing.
"Now pick another random black dot to start from and color it white too. From this black dot" from which black dot, the white one?
"single step in a random direction, coloring the new dot white and drawing a line between the two dots". How big of a step is we need to draw a line? Ok, so where not talking about pixels, and where drawing black and white dots on a background of... let's imagine grey?
"backtrack along your path until you’re back at the dot that you were trying to color white" does this algorithm ever terminate in any tractible time?
- Yes, the two are orthogonal concepts. Text did not disappear just because we invented photography. Bayesian data analysis is for inverse problems, such as using data to learn about the properties of the system/model that could have generated the data, and neural networks are for forward problems such as using data to generate more data or make predictions.
You can use BDA for forward problems too, via posterior predictive samples. The benefit over neural networks for this task is that with BDA you get dependable uncertainty quantification about your predictions. The disadvantage is that the modalities are somewhat limited to simple structured data.
You can also use neural networks for inverse problems, such as for example with Neural Posterior Estimation. This approach shows promise since it can tackle more complex problems than the standard BDA approach of Markov Chain Monte Carlo and with much faster results, but the accuracy and dependability are still quite lacking.
- > Leadership in technical environments isn't about being the smartest person in the room. It's about being the most effective translator.
Only if you don't make the final decision, but if you do, you better be the smartest person in the room by far. Otherwise, you're not a leader but a post turtle.