Category: First Principles

  • The magic ingredient

    I stopped my research quite some time ago. I hope to get back to it soon, but a few words of excuses are appropriate I believe. I was beyond busy. I was doing my daily job, desperately looking for a new job (finished very successfully) and doing a capstone project to finish the program, meanwhile…

  • First encounter with clustering

    Unsupervised learning is as challenging to comprehend as solving the Gordian Knot, precisely because it starts with the fundamental unknown—what to expect is not predefined, capturing the very essence of its complexity. However, one aspect particularly struck me. There’s no simple answer to the question, ‘Are there clusters in the data?’ Given the plethora of…

  • What really matters

    It’s the most important question: What really matters? We could journey far back in history, when the ancient Greeks discovered the phalanx and the hoplite, thereby democratizing power structure. A few ordinary citizens could now halt a nobleman in his chariot from the mythical Trojan age and that in essence is how democracy could be…