Trung Huynh's tech blog http://www.trungh.com Even god made mistakes, please let me know what mistakes I have made Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:03:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 Tutorials to Deep Learning http://www.trungh.com/2012/04/tutorials-to-deep-learning/ http://www.trungh.com/2012/04/tutorials-to-deep-learning/#comments Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:54:33 +0000 trung http://www.trungh.com/2012/04/tutorials-to-deep-learning/ An introduction to Deep Learning by Ludovic Arnold, Sébastien Rebecchi, Sylvain Chevallier, Hélène Paugam-Moisy: http://www.lri.fr/~arnold/_media/bib:esann2011.pdf?cache=

Nice survey about Learning Deep Network by Yoshua Bengio:

http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~bengioy/papers/ftml_book.pdf

More about Contrastive Divergence: http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~ojw/files/NotesOnCD.pdf

Autoencoder: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs294a/sparseAutoencoder.pdf

Stacked Autoencoders: http://ufldl.stanford.edu/wiki/index.php/Stacked_Autoencoders

Convolutional Neural Network: http://www.inf.ufsc.br/~otuyama/eng/academic/cnn/index.html

Markov Chain Monte Carlo & Gibbs sampling:

http://web.mit.edu/~wingated/www/introductions/mcmc-gibbs-intro.pdf

http://users.aims.ac.za/~ioana/

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Donald Knuth

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And you know what? He’s right.

The world doesn’t need another Dell or HP. It doesn’t need another manufacturer of plain, beige, boring PCs. If that’s all we’re going to do, then we should really pack up now.

But we’re lucky, because Apple has a purpose. Unlike anyone in the industry, people want us to make products that they love. In fact, more than love. Our job is to make products that people lust for. That’s what Apple is meant to be.

What’s BMW’s market share of the auto market? Does anyone know? Well, it’s less than 2%, but no one cares. Why? Because either you drive a BMW or you stare at the new one driving by. If we do our job, we’ll make products that people lust after, and no one will care about our market share.

Apple is a start-up. Granted, it’s a startup with $6B in revenue, but that can and will go in an instant. If you are here for a cushy 9-to-5 job, then that’s OK, but you should go. We’re going to make sure everyone has stock options, and that they are oriented towards the long term. If you need a big salary and bonus, then that’s OK, but you should go. This isn’t going to be that place. There are plenty of companies like that in the Valley. This is going to be hard work, possibly the hardest you’ve ever done. But if we do it right, it’s going to be worth it.

– Steve Jobs

The story is reblogged from Adam Nash’s blog

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Steve Jobs

]]> http://www.trungh.com/2011/10/focus-ability-to-say-no/feed/ 0 Remembering that you are going to die is… http://www.trungh.com/2011/09/remembering-that-you-are-going-to-die-is-2/ http://www.trungh.com/2011/09/remembering-that-you-are-going-to-die-is-2/#comments Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:25:23 +0000 trung http://www.trungh.com/2011/09/remembering-that-you-are-going-to-die-is-2/ Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Steve Jobs

]]> http://www.trungh.com/2011/09/remembering-that-you-are-going-to-die-is-2/feed/ 0 Success is the ability to go from one fa… http://www.trungh.com/2011/08/success-is-the-ability-to-go-from-one-fa/ http://www.trungh.com/2011/08/success-is-the-ability-to-go-from-one-fa/#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2011 10:03:56 +0000 trung http://www.trungh.com/2011/08/success-is-the-ability-to-go-from-one-fa/ Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

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WILLIAM GIBSON, 1994

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