josh bowlesDangerous questions for technical interviewees n(v1)I’d like to experiment and ask (some) of these questions in my next technical interview.Feb 15, 2020Feb 15, 2020
josh bowlesAn n-gram model is a technique of counting sequences of characters or words that allows us to…I’ll focus on natural language; specifically just English. A little more formally, a natural language n-gram model is a sequence of…Dec 11, 2019Dec 11, 2019
josh bowlesJulia version of Goldberg’s “The unreasonable effectiveness of Character-level Language Models”The Julia version of the Python code in Yoav Goldberg’s original notebook is not intended to be a line by line copy, though I tried to…Aug 30, 2019Aug 30, 2019
josh bowlesM2.1 Softmax in JuliaThe goal of this post is not to motivate and explain softmax, nor to provide the best softmax function for Julia, nor to introduce the…Dec 30, 2018Dec 30, 2018
josh bowlesM2: Softmax Poetic in the Mathematical IdealI often wax poetic about mathematics, I can’t help it, it’s an instinct and I don’t fight it. But I truly, genuinely feel this way about…Dec 30, 2018Dec 30, 2018
josh bowlesThoughts on Rust in 20192018 was a success with the stated goals of releasing “editions” and working on usability/ergonomics. My first encounter with Rust was…Dec 28, 20181Dec 28, 20181
josh bowlesM1: LiftedI turn towards mathematics to enrich my life. My human beingness is folded into thinking about mathematics. When young I wanted to direct…Nov 10, 2018Nov 10, 2018
josh bowlesinQ.E.D.M0. I’m just getting started: A Mathematical Love StoryI was asked to share my story and to write about it consistently; this is the first post.Oct 7, 20181Oct 7, 20181
josh bowlesKnowledge Automation……the task of automating mundane knowledge-work that typically only humans have been able to execute.Dec 16, 2017Dec 16, 2017