Michael Nielsen

On the problems caused when you create tshirts using a data mining algorithm. As Kevin Slavin has noted, this is how our culture is increasingly being created. - Michael Nielsen

I like the idea about regularizing the regularization parameters. - Michael Nielsen

A brief skim suggests that this is a very good basic guide to making documentaries. - Michael Nielsen

A pretty good summary of how people think about regularization. - Michael Nielsen

An extremely insightful talk about the way our society thinks about not-for-profit organizations. He highlights many of the systematic ways we hobble the not-for-profit sector. - Michael Nielsen

LeCun et al's well-known 1998 paper on document recognition. - Michael Nielsen

"Learning algorithms related to artificial neural networks and in particular for Deep Learning may seem to involve many bells and whistles, called hyper-parameters. This chapter is meant as a practical guide with recommendations for some of the most commonly used hyper-parameters, in particular in the context of learning algorithms based on back-propagated gradient and gradient-based optimization. It also discusses how to deal with the fact that more interesting results can be obtained when allowing one to adjust many hyper-parameters. Overall, it describes elements of the practice used to successfully and efficiently train and debug large-scale and often deep multi-layer neural networks. It closes with open questions about the training difficulties observed with deeper architectures." - Michael Nielsen

Proposes a measure for the utility of an individual's contribution to a task. - Michael Nielsen

Makes it clear just how much human effort is involved, cleaning up and curating the data. - Michael Nielsen

Linked mostly for the title, which is the useful term "agnotology" - the study of ignorance. - Michael Nielsen

Astonishing story of how a family built a place for themselves, alone in the world. - Michael Nielsen

Documentary of Wolfgang Steiner, one of the world's top ski-jumpers in the 1970s. The spine of the documentary is a sequence of extraordinary shots of Steiner's jumps, taken with a pair of high-speed cameras. - Michael Nielsen

A reminder of the diversity of life: the passion and learning and insight people pour into calligraphy, font design, and design more generally. - Michael Nielsen

Striking for the level of emotional commitment and uncertainty (and turmoil) on the part of the creators! - Michael Nielsen

Amazing tour of the international space station. - Michael Nielsen