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28 Aug 2026

The Forward-Forward Algorithm: Learning Without Going (Fully) Backward

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Geoffrey Hinton's 2022 proposal to train neural networks with two forward passes instead of one forward and one backward. What goodness means, why it needs no backward pass at all, and a from-scratch NumPy implementation that gets a small digit classifier working on it.

25 Aug 2026

Great Websites Series - #2: Orphanet

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Second in the series on websites worth a permanent bookmark. This time, Orphanet - the reference portal that gave rare diseases a shared vocabulary long before anyone was building models for them.

13 Aug 2026

Great Websites Series - #1: OEIS

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First in an occasional series on websites that have earned a permanent bookmark. Starting with the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.