Weekly summary 2016-08-27

Goals

• Review/learning
  • HDP Ch. 4
  • Index-card AI safety notes
  • Convex optimization, bandit optimization
• PMI
  • Organize code, data; write up what I’ve found so far.
• Representation learning
  • Experiment?
• Tensorflow
  • Get basic LSTM running.
  • Play with parameters in MNIST.

Summary:

• PMI
  • Run weighted SVD and compared
• HDP started Ch. 4
• Reviewed convex optimization.