Dan SaundersBook Review — Reinforcement Learning: An IntroductionAuthors: Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto (go UMass!)Apr 23, 2019Apr 23, 2019
Dan SaundersNotes on “Supervised learning in spiking neural networks with FORCE training”Paper available here.Sep 23, 2018Sep 23, 2018
Dan SaundersBook review: “Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science”Reinventing Discovery by Michael Nielsen (an excellent writer across the board, IMHO) is a book about the impending revolution in the…Aug 22, 2018Aug 22, 2018
Dan SaundersBook Review: “Theoretical Neuroscience: Computational and Mathematical Modeling of Neural Systems”This book, by Peter Dayan and LF Abbott, is an exciting exploration of brains and their components. Basic differential equations…Aug 13, 2018Aug 13, 2018
Dan SaundersNotes on “ Task-Driven Convolutional Recurrent Models of the Visual System”This recent paper (it’s a pre-print / work in progress) explores how to incorporate useful recurrence in convolutional neural networks…Jul 30, 2018Jul 30, 2018
Dan SaundersBook Review: Computer Age Statistical InferenceIt’s time for another book review!Jun 22, 20181Jun 22, 20181
Dan SaundersSome thoughts on writingI keep a journal for a number of reasons, chief among them to practice my writing. Some days, I don’t know what it is that I want to put…Jun 19, 2018Jun 19, 2018
Dan SaundersBook Review: Deep Learning textbookI’ve finished reading the Deep Learning textbook (by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville) after owning it for about 1.5…Jun 6, 20182Jun 6, 20182