Federico Errica (he/him)
Author

Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous - Confucius

Biography

I believe Artificial Intelligence (AI) can bring immense benefits to ordinary people like me, and I am grateful I get the everyday chance to do research on improving how AI learns.

I dare think about the work I do as art – as did others – though I am not really an art person (sigh) and surely not a great artist. But art is fuelled by curiosity, curiosity is the driver of science, and curious people seek beauty. Quoting Poincaré “Of course I do not here speak of that beauty that strikes the senses […] I mean that profounder beauty which comes from the harmonious order of the parts.”

How can order raise from a chaotic interaction of entities?

How are we influenced by processes and people around us?

Ultimately, why we become who we are?

If you’d like to chat about it, either philosophically or more concretely, press one of the buttons above. See you soon =)

Notes on Reparametrization trick

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Notes on t-SNE derivation

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