September 2022 – Spot C++

C++ comma operator and parallelization

I have never had a reason to use the comma operator, however, writing some modern code, it seems required. Say you have some series of variables and you want to perform a common operation on the group. New C++ is always a fun thing, I know. We could change this to be a generic functionContinue reading “C++ comma operator and parallelization”

Errors and Progress in mnist recognition

So, in my earlier post, I said I had a “convergent mnist network”. At the time I was excited and I wrote that in haste. What that network had been doing, it had been trained on null and digits, but only one image for each of these digit was actually ever trained into the network.Continue reading “Errors and Progress in mnist recognition”