Book Notes: Women of Wonder
Adam Rowe
Women of Wonder, a 2015 collection edited by Cathy Fenner, focuses much more on fantasy art than on science fiction, but there's a lot of interesting recent art by women artists in here.
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Book Notes: The Science Fiction Book - An Illustrated History
Adam Rowe
Featuring Virgil Finlay, John W. Campbell Jr., uncredited Howard V. Brown covers, Frankenstein, and Almos Zaschtk, but not in that order.
Book Notes: Paint or Pixel
Adam Rowe
A 2008 essay collection of artists discussing the merits of digital tools, including Jael, John Berkey, Jill Bauman, Tom Kidd, Frank Wu, and more.
Book Notes: Anthony Frewin on Various '30s SF Illustration
Adam Rowe
Part 3 of my notes on Anthony Frewin's 1974 art history 'One Hundred Years of Science Fiction Illustration.'
Dropout as Shared-Parameter Bagging
Alex Leung's Blog
A concrete way to understand dropout in deep learning: sampled subnetworks with shared weights, standing in for a much more expensive ensemble.
Representation, Efficiency, and Learnability
Alex Leung's Blog
Goodfellow Chapter 6 sharpened how I separate representation, parameter efficiency, and optimization when thinking about deep feedforward networks.
Math Foundations for Deep Learning
Alex Leung's Blog
Part I of Goodfellow, Bengio, and Courville works best as shared vocabulary for later chapters, with proof details still worth supplementing.
Zecharia, Jesuits, Lions and an Antidote for the Overthinker
Alastair Johnston
Luke chapter 1. Zecharia is in the temple and an angel appears.The angel says to him, “Don’t be afraid, Zechariah! God has heard your prayer. Your wife Elizabeth will have a son, and you will name him John. He will be your pride and joy, and many people will be glad that he was born. As far as...