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April 4, 2013April 10, 2013 xcorr

Why second-order methods can be futile in non-convex problems

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The secret ingredient in stochastic gradient descent

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xcorr is the blog of Patrick Mineault, neuroscientist and technologist.

Previously, I was a BCI engineer with Oculus and a software engineer at Google. I was a postdoc at the Ringach lab at UCLA studying vision. I did my PhD at the Pack lab, McGill University.

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