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Borun Chowdhury Ph.D.

Borun Chowdhury Ph.D.

Gambler’s Problem — When Inaction Is Infact Optimal

The Gambler’s Problem from Barto and Sutton has attracted a lot of discussion and confusion. I give a seemingly paradoxical and ultimately…

Dec 21, 2022

Gambler’s Problem — When Inaction Is Infact Optimal

Dec 21, 2022

Borun Chowdhury Ph.D.

Monty Hall Done Right

The Monty Hall problem is solved with an arbitrary number of cars and goats using conditional probabilities. As a bonus, I include a colab…

Dec 8, 2021

Monty Hall Done Right

Dec 8, 2021

Borun Chowdhury Ph.D.
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Towards Data Science

Billiards with Fred the Frequentist and Bayer the Bayesian [Bayer wins :)]

I discuss here an experiment due to Bayes himself that highlights the beauty, elegance and CORRECTNESS of Bayesian approach even as the…

Oct 9, 2021

Billiards with Fred the Frequentist and Bayer the Bayesian [Bayer wins :)]

Oct 9, 2021

Borun Chowdhury Ph.D.

Do you understand Newton’s Laws?

Many do not know Newton’s Laws of motion but think they do

Oct 5, 2021

Do you understand Newton’s Laws?

Oct 5, 2021

Borun Chowdhury Ph.D.
in
Towards Data Science

Understanding classification metrics

For a simple binary classification task the beginner is often confused by a ton of metrics. Here I give a bottom up explanation of…

Jun 10, 2021

Understanding classification metrics

Jun 10, 2021

Borun Chowdhury Ph.D.
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Towards Data Science

Class weights for categorical loss

May 22, 2021

Class weights for categorical loss

May 22, 2021

Borun Chowdhury Ph.D.
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Towards Data Science

The Cauchy Distribution — Your distribution so fat…

The Cauchy distribution is so fat tailed that it does not have a mean or variance. We look at a physically motivated example and its…

Dec 28, 2020

The Cauchy Distribution — Your distribution so fat…

Dec 28, 2020

Borun Chowdhury Ph.D.
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The Startup

Why Most Articles on the Central Limit Theorem Are Misleading

Most articles say that sample means of random variables drawn from any distribution tends to Gaussians but this is incorrect

Dec 26, 2020

Why Most Articles on the Central Limit Theorem Are Misleading

Dec 26, 2020

Borun Chowdhury Ph.D.
in
Towards Data Science

Making Docker and Conda play well together

Build a Docker image running a multi-kernel Jupyter notebook server in fifteen minutes

Dec 26, 2020

Making Docker and Conda play well together

Dec 26, 2020

Borun Chowdhury Ph.D.
in
Towards Data Science

Custom metrics in Keras and how simple they are to use in tensorflow2.2

Keras has simplified DNN based machine learning a lot and it keeps getting better. Here we show how to implement metric based on the…

Jul 2, 2020

Custom metrics in Keras and how simple they are to use in tensorflow2.2

Jul 2, 2020

Borun Chowdhury Ph.D.

Borun Chowdhury Ph.D.

Formless and shapeless pure consciousness masquerading as a machine learning researcher, a theoretical physicist and a quant.

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