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Courage to Learn ML: A Detailed Exploration of Gradient Descent and Popular Optimizers

Are You Truly Mastering Gradient Descent? Use This Post as Your Ultimate Checkpoint

22 min readJan 9, 2024

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An Unfiltered Review of My Parenting So Far

And it’s been good.

5 min readFeb 29, 2024

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An Unfiltered Review of My Parenting So Far

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Courage to Learn ML: Tackling Vanishing and Exploding Gradients (Part 1)

Melting Away DNN’s Gradient Challenges: A Scoop of Solutions and Insights

13 min readFeb 5, 2024

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Courage to Learn ML: Tackling Vanishing and Exploding Gradients (Part 1)

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Courage to Learn ML: Explain Backpropagation from Mathematical Theory to Coding Practice

Transforming Backpropagation’s Complex Math into Manageable and Easy-to-Learn Bites

19 min readJan 17, 2024

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Courage to Learn ML: Explain Backpropagation from Mathematical Theory to Coding Practice

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Courage to Learn ML: An In-Depth Guide to the Most Common Loss Functions

MSE, Log Loss, Cross Entropy, RMSE, and the Foundational Principles of Popular Loss Functions

13 min readDec 28, 2023

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Courage to Learn ML: An In-Depth Guide to the Most Common Loss Functions

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Relax Your Butt and Be Gentle with Yourself

My Personal Tale and a Heartfelt Message to the Recently Laid Off

6 min readDec 18, 2023

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Relax Your Butt and Be Gentle with Yourself

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Courage to Learn ML: A Deeper Dive into F1, Recall, Precision, and ROC Curves

F1 Score: Your Key Metric for Imbalanced Data — But Do You Really Know Why?

12 min readDec 17, 2023

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Courage to Learn ML: A Deeper Dive into F1, Recall, Precision, and ROC Curves

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Courage to Learn ML: Demystifying L1 & L2 Regularization (part 4)

Explore L1 & L2 Regularization as Bayesian Priors

8 min readDec 11, 2023

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Courage to Learn ML: Demystifying L1 & L2 Regularization (part 4)

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Courage to Learn ML: Decoding Likelihood, MLE, and MAP

With A Tail of Cat Food Preferences

10 min readDec 3, 2023

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Courage to Learn ML: Decoding Likelihood, MLE, and MAP

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Courage to Learn ML: Demystifying L1 & L2 Regularization (part 3)

Why L0.5, L3, and L4 Regularizations Are Uncommon

6 min readNov 29, 2023

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Amy Ma

Amy Ma

👩‍💻 Data Scientist & Machine Learning Enthusiast 🚀 | 🐾 Cat Lover & New Mom 🍼 | Video Game Adventurer 🎮 | Here to make ML fun and accessible! 🌟

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