Robustify Verb To Make More Robust You often lose performance when you choose to robustify something. Missing Words English is a dynamic and ever-evolving language. Unfortunately, it’s finite in size so there are concepts and ideas that even it cannot currently describe. In the missing words series, I’ll be noting words that come up in…
I had a problem. I had trained a model in Keras using a TensorFlow backend. Unfortunately, and for reasons I won’t get into here, I wanted to use that trained model with PyTorch. I couldn’t find a good library to transfer the models whole or a good writeup on how to transfer the weights manually…
Space Debris From dead satellites to flecks of paint, there are over 500,000 pieces of space debris currently being tracked. Space debris, and the problems they can cause is a hot topic with everything from a major Hollywood movie to TED talks being given about them. In this post I’m going to go over a less…
Book Review As a grad student, I read a lot of papers. For some reason, I like to relax by reading more. This post will be a review of 3 books that I’ve read whose authors are from academia. Below a each review, I give my recommendations for it to both a lay audience and…
Welcome! Welcome to the 169th edition of the Carnival of Mathematics! This monthly roundup of some of the best and latest math blogs. As per tradition let’s begin with some trivia about the number 169. It’s a square! And if we reverse every number above, it still remains a square Blogs First up we…
This Thursday, April 11th, a washing machine sized-spacecraft will attempt to land on the Moon. If it succeeds, it will be the first privately funded spacecraft on the Moon, and make Israel the fourth country to land on the Moon after Russia/USSR, the USA, and China. This post will go over the basics of what…
2 Months It’s been two months since New Horizon’s new year flyby of Ultima Thule, proper name (486958) 2014 MU69. Data from the flyby is still trickling in and being poured over by planetary scientist, but the results so far show Ultima Thule to both be a good fit for data taken from the ground, as…
Introduction to the Library As I’m doing research I end up writing a lot of code. Most of the time it’s one-off scripts and functions for a specific task, but sometimes I do something enough that I add it to my permanent in-house library. I’ve decided to collect several of these functions related to astrodynamics,…
Picture This Humans are a visual species, we look for patterns in life and we are great at finding them when they are visual. We can tell two people apart just by looking at their faces. Sometime’s we’re too good at seeing patterns and we see faces in a piece of burnt toast. If we’re…
One Pendulum Less A few weeks ago we looked at how to balance an inverted pendulum as part of a 3 part series on balancing inverted pendulums. Part 2 is still being worked on, but here’s part 3, an exploration of how shaking an inverted pendulum up and down really fast can make it stable.…
