by Dr. Owns | May 6, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
This article uses concepts from this brilliant paper. For a deeper understanding of the mathematics please refer to the paper. Here we try to present the math in a more intuitive and explicit way, with some important nuances highlighted. 1 Introduction Discussions...
by Dr. Owns | May 6, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
As a data scientist and professor, I often need to explain the inner workings of learning algorithms and mathematical concepts, whether in technical presentations, classroom lectures, or written articles. In many cases, static plots can show the final outcome, but...
by Dr. Owns | May 6, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
In the previous posts, we explored Part I of the seminal book Reinforcement Learning by Sutton and Barto [1] (*). In that section, we delved into the three fundamental techniques underlying nearly every modern Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithm: Dynamic Programming...
by Dr. Owns | May 6, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin, Originator of Evolutionary Theory Not long ago, I came across an article about a CEO, who was visibly frustrated with their...
by Dr. Owns | May 5, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
Introduction The invention of ViT (Vision Transformer) causes us to think that CNNs are obsolete. But is this really true? It is widely believed that the impressive performance of ViT comes primarily from its transformer-based architecture. However, researchers from...
