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  1. Apr 2026
    1. Can you find any pairs where the analogy doesn't work?

      sock, feet glove, hand

      is an exception - in general might not be a super interpretable in the embedded space

  2. Mar 2026
    1. What are some of the potential ethical and social impacts facial recognition surveillance could have on society

      as model gets better, the probability you are falsely recognized becomes more of a threat because we place more trust in these technologies even if there is a small chance they are wrong

      government and trust, we lose a lot of our private and personal life because that information is owned by tech companies and government.

    1. identity

      f^2 is identity does not mean that the entire layer does nothing. It only means that the activation function does nothing (f(z) = z) so a new linear transformation corresponding to the second layer is still being applied and it could push the output out of the (0,1) range making it invalid for NLL

      REMEMBER: A standard layer in a neural network does two distinct jobs

      1) Linear Transformation involving weights and bias. - z = w.Tx+b

      2) Activation Function then passes the new value (z) through an activation function to get the final output of the layer f(z) = a

    2. an ill-formed neural network

      This model is ill-formed because if it is a one layer identity network, the network computes w.Tx+b and the network doesn't alter this linear combination at all. It just passes straight through, meaning that this network can output any real number from -infinity to infinity.

      The Negative Log-Likelihood takes a probability between 0 and 1. This MISMATCH is why the network breaks down.