🎓 Ah yes, another 8-minute math lecture turned #snoozefest where "Generative Adversarial Networks" are explained like a bedtime story for data science insomniacs. 🤖💤 Spoiler: it's just another epic battle between a generator and a discriminator, but don't hold your breath for any worthwhile entertainment or clarity. 🥱
https://jaketae.github.io/study/gan-math/ #GenerativeAdversarialNetworks #MathLecture #DataScience #AIEntertainment #HackerNews #ngated
The Math Behind GANs

Generative Adversarial Networks refer to a family of generative models that seek to discover the underlying distribution behind a certain data generating process. This distribution is discovered through an adversarial competition between a generator and a discriminator. As we saw in an earlier introductory post on GANs, the two models are trained such that the discriminator strives to distinguish between generated and true examples, while the generator seeks to confuse the discriminator by producing data that are as realistic and compelling as possible.

Jake Tae

A short excursion on the invariant from the article:

Holly Krieger: The Dollar Game (Numberphile)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U33dsEcKgeQ

At first it had reminded me of how Norman Wildberger approaches the ADE graphs with his "mutation game". It's related, but different: a mutation at a graph vertex takes the negative at that vertex and adds the values of its neighbours to it:

N. Wildberger: The Ubiquity of ADE graphs, and the Mutations and Numbers game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPtnEZeuzH0

#combinatorics #mathLecture

The Dollar Game - Numberphile

YouTube

Well, no, it's not really a 'recent' interview. But it's a good one, from the 70's. You can find many cool lectures searching for

"knuth christmas tree lecture"

on youtube. They're all about counting problems related to trees. My current favorite is still the one about "3/2 trees", but I didn't get very far watching them all, yet!

more #knuth #mathLecture's, on #counting #trees, #mathematics