Fast CRDT Reconsiliation with Patricia Chains
A mean field analysis of the gossip protocol shows that distributed consensus with CRDTs can happen in constant expected time.
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Fast Slam
Instead of representing the joint distribution of an object and landmarks’ locations with a multivariate Gaussian, we can use a particle filter.
EKF Slam
A hands-on introduction to an old technique for simultaneous localization and mapping.
Conjugate Computation
This post is about a technique that allows us to use variational message passing on models where the likelihood doesn’t have a conjugate prior. There will be...
Generative ODE Models are VAEs
Generative image models based on ordinary differential equations can be seen as forms of variational auto-encoders.
A Taste Of Qmc
Error with standard Monte Carlo methods decreases as $O(n^{-1/2})$. Quasi Monte carlo methods have error that decreases as $O(n^{-1})$, as we demonstrate wit...
Sparse Variational Gaussian Processes
This notebook introduces Fully Independent Training Conditional (FITC) sparse variational Gaussian process model. You shouldn’t need any prior knowledge abou...
Differential Equations
In my freshman year of college, I took an introductory differential equations class. That was nine years ago. I’ve forgotten pretty much everything, so I tho...