Let’s start by writing the letter T using numpy in Python, encoded in a 0/1 array. Let’s visualize this. This is what we get, indeed the array represents the letter “T”. Now, let’s generate a corrupted version of this image by flipping each bit with some probability p. We can also do it a bit faster […]
Pythia was a powerful and respected woman in Ancient Greece. She was the high priestess of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. I was surprised to read in the Wikipedia article that the name Pythia is derived from the verb πύθειν (púthein) which means “to rot”; I find this to be unlikely. An etymology that sounds […]
I am blogging from Lyon where I find myself for the Web Conference 2018. So far, I’ve attended many interesting talks. I enjoyed a lot Jon Kleinberg’s talk on procrastination. George Akerlof noticed that instead of sending a package by mail with one time-effort of cost , he preferred to postpone this every day until […]
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