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![[Translation] 1. Information theory + ML. Entropy](https://times42.com/media/5/5/4/7026554_640x200.jpg "[Translation] 1. Information theory + ML. Entropy")
I've long wanted to create educational materials on the topic of Information Theory + Machine Learning. I found some old drafts and decided to polish them up here, on Habr. Information Theory and Machine Learning seem to me like an interesting pair of fields, the deep connection between which is often unknown to ML engineers, and whose synergy has not yet been fully revealed. Let's start with basic concepts like Entropy, Information in a message, Mutual Information, and channel capacity. Next, there will b
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![[Translation] PostgreSQL 18: Part 1 or CommitFest 2024-07](https://times42.com/media/6/3/6/9539636_640x200.jpg "[Translation] PostgreSQL 18: Part 1 or CommitFest 2024-07")
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The explicit reparameterization trick is often used to train various latent variable models due to the ease of calculating gradients of continuous random variables. However, due to its peculiarities, explicit reparameterization trick is not applicable to several important continuous standard distributions, such as mixture, Gamma, Beta and Dirichlet.An alternative method for calculating reparameterization gradients relies on implicit differentiation of cumulative distribution functions. The implicit reparame Read more ›
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