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Alfredo Canziani @alfcnz.bsky.social · Jul 2

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Alfredo Canziani @alfcnz.bsky.social · Jul 2

To compute the movement of the state x(t), we need to temporally integrate its velocity field ẋ(t). 🤓
The control signal steering angle stays at 0, then 0.05π, then linearly to −0.20π. The vehicle moves along circumferences.
Finally, a sweep of initial velocity is performed.

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Alfredo Canziani @alfcnz.bsky.social · Jun 30

No, it’s just a non native speaker making silly mistakes. 😅😅😅
Thanks for catching that! 😀

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Alfredo Canziani @alfcnz.bsky.social · Jun 30

Currently, writing chapter 10, «Planning and control».
Physical constrains for the evolution of the state (e.g. pure rotation of the wheels) are encoded through the velocity of the state ẋ = dx(t)/dt, a function of the state x(t) and the control u(t).

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Kosta Derpanis @csprofkgd.bsky.social · Jun 14

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Alfredo Canziani @alfcnz.bsky.social · Jun 10

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Alfredo Canziani @alfcnz.bsky.social · Jun 10

Oh! The undergrad feedback came in! 🥹🥹🥹

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Alfredo Canziani @alfcnz.bsky.social · Jun 9

Releasing the Energy-Book 🔋 from its first appendix's chapter, where I explain how I create my figures. 🎨
Feel free to report errors via the issues' tracker, contribute to the exercises, and show me what you can draw, via the discussion section. 🥳
github.com/Atcold/Energ...

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Alfredo Canziani @alfcnz.bsky.social · Jun 7

On a summer Friday night,
the first chapter sees the light.
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Alfredo Canziani @alfcnz.bsky.social · May 29

Yeah, it took me 20 days to get back 🥹🥹🥹
I swear I respond to instant messages as they get through! 🥲🥲🥲
Anyhow, one more successful semester completed. 🥳🥳🥳

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Alfredo Canziani @alfcnz.bsky.social · Apr 10

This is the first semester I'm teaching this course.
I think I want to wait until version 2 (coming out this fall) before deciding to push the entire course online.
This of this lesson as a preview of what's coming next.
I'll be using it for advertising my course with the upcoming students.

Alfredo Canziani @alfcnz.bsky.social · Apr 9

You've been asking what I've been up to and how the book 📖 was coming along… well, since this new course is under construction, all my energy has been diverted to this project.
It's been exhausting 🥵 but rewarding 😌. It forced me to cover the history and the basics of my field.

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Alfredo Canziani @alfcnz.bsky.social · Apr 9

In this lecture from my new undergrad course, we review linear multiclass classification, leverage backprop and gradient descent to learn a linearly separable feature vector for the input, and observe the training dynamics in a 2D embedding space. 🤓

youtu.be/saskQ-EjCLQ

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Alfredo Canziani @alfcnz.bsky.social · Apr 8

This is different from the video I made 5 years ago, where the input-output linear interpolation of an already trained network shows what a neural net does to its input. Namely, it follows a piece-wise linear mapping defined by the hidden layer.

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Alfredo Canziani @alfcnz.bsky.social · Apr 8

Training of a 2 → 100 → 2 → 5 fully connected ReLU neural net via cross-entropy minimisation.
• it starts outputting small embeddings
• around epoch 300 learns an identity function
• takes 1700 epochs more to unwind the data manifold

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khipu.ai @khipu-ai.bsky.social · Mar 11

Did you enjoy Alfredo Canziani's lecture as much as we did?! If so, check out his website to find more about his educational offer: atcold.github.io
You can also find really cool material on Alfredo's YouTube channel! @alfcnz.bsky.social

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khipu.ai @khipu-ai.bsky.social · Mar 7

📣 A pocos días del comienzo del Khipu 2025, nos complace anunciar que tanto las actividades del salón principal como el acto de clausura del viernes se retransmitirán en directo por este canal: khipu.ai/live/. ¡Los esperamos!

khipu.ai

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Alfredo Canziani @alfcnz.bsky.social · Mar 11

I *really* had a blast giving this improvised lecture on a topic requested on the spot without any sleep! 🤪
The audience seemed enjoying the show. 😄
To find more about my educational offer, check out my website! atcold.github.io
Follow here and subscribe on YouTube! 😀

khipu.ai @khipu-ai.bsky.social · Mar 10

➡️ The lecture ML & DL Foundamentals II with Alfredo Canziani @alfcnz is now starting at #KHIPU2025

Remember you can watch it live at khipu.ai/live

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Alfredo Canziani @alfcnz.bsky.social · Feb 11

In today's episode, we review the concepts of loss ℒ(𝘄, 𝒟), per-sample loss L(𝘄, x, y), binary cross-entropy cost ℍ(y, ỹ) = y softplus(−s) + (1−y) softplus(s), ỹ = σ(𝘄ᵀ𝗳(x)).
Then, we minimised the loss by choosing convenient values for our weight vector 𝘄.
@nyucourant.bsky.social

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Alfredo Canziani @alfcnz.bsky.social · Feb 1

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Alfredo Canziani @alfcnz.bsky.social · Jan 30

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Alfredo Canziani @alfcnz.bsky.social · Jan 30

Tue morning: *prepares slides*
Tue class: *improv blackboard lecture*
Outcome: unexpectedly great lecture.
Thu morning: *prep handwritten notes*
Thu class: *executes blackboard lecture*
Students: 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
@nyucourant.bsky.social @nyudatascience.bsky.social

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Alfredo Canziani @alfcnz.bsky.social · Jan 26

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Alfredo Canziani @alfcnz.bsky.social · Jan 26

I had linear algebra, calculus, and machine learning. I just removed the latter. 😅😅😅

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Alfredo Canziani @alfcnz.bsky.social · Jan 26

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