wei2912’s blog

I maintain a Mastodon account at @wei2912@sigmoid.social, where I post updates on blog posts and other related content.


Shallow Dives

These articles are intended to let people dip their toes into unfamiliar technical topics, hopefully beyond a superficial level of understanding.

Regularisation & Redundancy: Examining Generalisation in Deep Learning #ml-theory

(WIP) A brief look into generalisation in deep learning (namely in Convolutional Neural Networks), examining recent empirical findings which run contrary to common intuition.

Why AES is Secure #crypto

(January 1, 2017) An explanation of how AES, a commonly used modern cryptosystem, was designed to be resistant to many different types of cryptographic attacks.

Miscellaneous

Introduction to Haskell #haskell

(November 27, 2014) A brief introduction to Haskell, for programmers wondering what functional programming languages have to offer over imperative languages.


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The design of this blog was inspired by Mike Bostock’s website.