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A Curious Topology

Aug 21 2024 · 5 min read
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When I took my first proper analysis course in undergrad, I always lacked of appreciation of the $$\varepsilon$$’s and the $$\delta$$’s in “real life problems”. Myself from a …

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MLP Approximation

Sep 12 2019 · 2 min read
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Almost always we hear about classification or machine learning problems, the go-to methods to solve the problem are neural networks, or multi-layered percetrons (MLP). Now function approximation …

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Real Analysis Notes

Aug 24 2019 · 1 min read
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When I took the course on Real Analysis, it made me very nervous. I was having fever dreams from the past when I took undergraduate real analysis and the epsilon-delta definitions just did not make a …

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But why is Compactness important?

Aug 15 2019 · 3 min read
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In my last post I touched upon the intuition behind topological compactness. We as engineers often hear about the word ‘compact’ as a soft gatekeeping tool from doing serious …

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Compactness

Aug 10 2019 · 3 min read
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This is a non-mathematical note on what I understand about compactness and what it means for a set or a space to be compact. The open cover definition is one that can be found in any textbook, but …

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