I'm experimenting with open research notes now I'm a free agent. I thought this might be a fun project to share, because it ended up being a small metaphor for every ML project I've ever done. Not a serious software project, just me thinking out loud.
It's not that long ago in human history that basically none of the jobs we do now existed. So it is kind of myopic to think that any current career is a calling. Art can become a craft again, not a career. There is nothing wrong with that.
Probably due to the really idiosyncratic way I think about things and from the post it is not at all clear what I mean, sorry for the imprecision! I think of cross correlation of 1D signals with a kernel as sliding one of the functions over the other [0]. In my head I imagine drawing the signal and kernel next to each other one a big piece of paper and literally folding it over and sliding it back over the signal to intuit the convolution (with an imaginary see through piece of paper). I really don't think that was obvious from what I posted, so definitely not dyscalculia!
I might be wrong (so happy to be corrected by a native speaker) but I liked when I heard that the German word for convolution is "faltung" which translates to "folding". This is a much nicer word to metaphorically understand the operation. Maybe it still confuses the hell out of German undergrads though?
