Blog Posts
Building an Autodiff Library
- Jack Norrie
- Machine Learning , Deep Learning
- 10 May, 2025
Until recently, despite my extensive experience with auto-differentiation frameworks, I have never implemented one myself. I believe that implementing a tool that you commonly use yourself can yield g
read moreBackpropagation A Modern Explanation
- Jack Norrie
- Machine learning , Deep learning
- 05 May, 2025
Manual differentiation is prone to errors and does not scale to functions that involve thousands of parameters, e.g. neural networks. This necessitates procedures which are able to take functions and
read moreHardware Accelerated Bootstrapping
- Jack Norrie
- Statistics
- 12 Apr, 2025
Following my investigation into bootstrap confidence intervals, I set out to run some simulation experiments to observe how the coverage of these confidence intervals approached their nominal levels.
read moreUnderstanding Bootstrap Confidence Intervals
- Jack Norrie
- Statistics
- 06 Apr, 2025
Recently I set out to understand Bias-Corrected Accelerated (BCa) bootstrap confidence intervals. I was aware that it was the "gold standard" for bootstrapping and that many statistical packages used
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