All that is under the Sun
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 …
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 …
“The only confusing thing about a confusion matrix is its name. 🤔”— Inspired by my friend Raymond’s FB post When diving into the world of machine learning, one of the most crucial tasks is evaluating how well your model performs. For classification tasks (where the goal is to assign items into distinct categories), the confusion …