Until recently, I thought of stochastic gradient descent as gradient descent… with a little bit of randomness. However, when I first looked up the details of stochastic gradient descent I was confused how it could possibly work. This post is...

A narrow language feature leaves little ambiguity to the intent of the code. Therefore, an experienced reader can selectively skip details of the expression without loss of understanding. In contrast, a reader is forced to carefully inspect an expression that...

Back off is the amount of time to wait before retrying a failed action. There are many choices for how to back off, including constant backoff (wait 10 seconds, then try again), random backoff (wait x seconds, where x is...

If you are reading this, there is a good chance an Exception was thrown in one of your async blocks and something unexpected happened. If you are using at least Clojure 1.6.0, your exception printed to stderr and the go...