2020 – julianrdcosta

UncategorizedDecember 21, 2020

Notes on AlphaFold2

These are some cleaned-up notes based on Preetham Venkatesh’s talk to IISc Naturalists on AlphaFold2’s recent CASP win. For a basic summary of what happened, see Deepmind’s blog post AlphaFold:Continue readingNotes on AlphaFold2

UncategorizedOctober 28, 2020

Generating SARS-CoV-2 Protease Inhibitors with Variational Autoencoders

These are some thoughts I wrote up as a retrospective on https://github.com/ddhackiisc/code/blob/master/smiles-pipeline/SMILES%20VAE.ipynb, a project I worked on a few months ago. In future posts I hope to go into moreContinue readingGenerating SARS-CoV-2 Protease Inhibitors with Variational Autoencoders

UncategorizedSeptember 25, 2020

On the 2D Rotation Rounding Problem

Here’s a simple dynamical system. You start with a 2D integer vector $latex v = (x,y) $. Now you rotate this vector around the origin by a fixed angle. ThisContinue readingOn the 2D Rotation Rounding Problem

UncategorizedJuly 9, 2020

How Come Deep Neural Networks Generalize?

This is a short review of the paper Understanding Deep Learning Requires Rethinking Generalization by Zhang et al, published in ICLR 2017, which I wrote as part of the applicationContinue readingHow Come Deep Neural Networks Generalize?

UncategorizedJune 10, 2020

Qubits and the Kernel Trick: The power of working in a bigger space

I’ve been reading Mermin’s account of Deutsch’s Problem, and it’s given me a new insight into where the power of quantum computing comes from. If you look at the originalContinue readingQubits and the Kernel Trick: The power of working in a bigger space

UncategorizedApril 22, 2020

Book Review: T. Tembarom by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Hodgson Burnett (henceforth FHB) is well known as the author of The Little Princess and The Secret Garden, which are books I vaguely remember as classics from my childhoodContinue readingBook Review: T. Tembarom by Frances Hodgson Burnett