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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.

I helped launch Neuromatch Academy as CTO. Previously, I was a BCI engineer at Facebook and a software engineer and data scientist at Google. I did my PhD at the Pack lab, McGill University.

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