All that is under the Sun
Imagine you’re teaching an archery student. They loose an arrow, and it thuds into the target, a little off-center. You wouldn’t just say, “You missed.” To be a good teacher, you need to know how much they missed by. Was it a near-perfect shot, just a hair’s breadth from the bullseye? Or did it land …
Welcome back to All that is under the Sun, your friendly guide through the fascinating, and sometimes bewildering, world of Artificial Intelligence. This month, we’re kicking off a brand-new series that gets to the very heart of how AI learns and improves. Think of it as the AI equivalent of a motivational seminar, a Marie …
“If probability is the language of uncertainty, a PMF is its grammar: crisp, discrete, and occasionally punch‑line worthy.” Picture this: You open your favorite generative‑AI app, type “Write me a haiku about mangoes,” and in less time than it takes to blink, a tiny digital poet complies. What sorcery decides which 17 syllables appear? Beneath …
We constantly hear about AI’s incredible feats: identifying cats in photos better than your cousin Kevin, translating languages on the fly, even spotting diseases on medical scans. AI models, especially those powered by Deep Learning, are phenomenal classifiers. They can look at data and yell “CAT!” or “SPAM!” or “POTENTIAL TUMOR!” with astonishing accuracy. But …
In the real world, outcomes are rarely certain. Will it rain tomorrow? Will a stock price go up? Will a user click on an ad? Probability theory provides the mathematical framework for reasoning about uncertainty, and at the heart of this framework lies the concept of a probability distribution. A probability distribution is a fundamental …
“Every man can, if he so desires, become the sculptor of his own brain.” – Santiago Ramón y Cajal Imagine you wake up one morning to find your coffee machine has grown extra buttons overnight, ready to prepare new exotic brews you didn’t even know existed. Far-fetched? For your kitchen appliances, certainly—but what if your …