Archive of posts with category 'math'

How to visualize hypergraphs with Python and networkx - The Easy Way

Graphs are awesome, hypergraphs are hyperawesome! Hypergraphs are a generalization of graphs where one relaxes the requirement for edges to connect just two nodes and allows instead edges to connect...

Should employees be promoted at random? Science says: “IDK, maybe?”

“In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence” – Dr. Laurence J. Peter

Borwein Integrals interpreted via Path Integrals

The ability to see common patterns and analogies, to conjecture universal laws starting from the particular things we can experience, is a powerful tool, which arguably is one of the...

On Differentiable Neural Architecture Search, DARTS, and Auto-Deeplab

I recently stumbled across a very interesting paper (thanks a lot, Noam!) titled “Auto-DeepLab: Hierarchical Neural Architecture Search for Semantic Image Segmentation”, by C. Liu et al.; the authors were...

A Game of Throws

I recently had the chance to mentor a high school student who was doing an internship at the Max Planck institute for Nuclear Physics. Since every project related to my...