As we all know, new advances in Artificial Intelligence are making waves these days, there are rumours that its major reason for Layoffs in industry. Though nothing to fear, its a matter of realignment to explore new ideas of its use.
I have been playing with Machine Learning well before evolution of major frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch. Used to work at grass root level doing multidimensional Matrix & its Manipulation, Statistics & Probability.
Strangely during my formative years while learning CS & Algorithms, found the concepts were part of 1860’s Maths books in my library @St. Stephens.
New frameworks & libraries hide all these complexities under the hood & many a times we tend to ignore maths underneath.
However, to be successful, understanding basics will go a long way in this journey. , creating new systems & frameworks by hand helps in long run, builds solid foundation, specially research.
Based on my experiences, it’s Maths makes Machines Learn.
For example in LLMs, interpretation of words based on Vectors a the word tensor in Tensor Flow is matrices and its manipulation..
Numbers (Vectors) help in deciphering interpretation & relationship between words in a sentence, sounds amazing!
Path breaking Transformer Paper in 2017 is all about Maths under hood so is the case with Generative AI , like Diffusion Models & other innovations are basically Mathematics & Probability at play.
All those who want to jump on the new bandwagon, makes sense to brush class XII maths and focus on building blocks Matrices, Calculus, Probability and its Distributions, Statistics. This will makes your journey enjoyable.
You can contact me @ asheesh.mathur@gmail.com for any help and clarifications. I offer trainings and consultancy as well
WilliamCak
April 3, 2025 — 1:59 pm
“You have a government that is reckless about what is going to happen to Guyana,” said Melinda Janki, an international lawyer in Guyana who is handling several lawsuits against Exxon. It’s pursuing “a supposed course of development that is actually backward and destructive,” she told CNN.
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And while plenty of Guyanese people welcome the new oil industry, some say Guyana’s startling economic statistics do not reflect a real-world prosperity for ordinary people, many of whom are struggling with the higher prices accompanying the oil boom. Inflation rose 6.6% in 2023, with prices of some foods shooting up much more rapidly.
“Since the oil extraction began in Guyana, we have noticed that our cost of living has gone sky high,” said Wintress White, of Red Thread, a non-profit that focuses on improving living conditions for Guyanese women. “The money is not trickling down to the masses,” she told CNN.
CNN contacted President Ali, the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Ministry of Finance for comment but received no response.
Guyana, a former Dutch then British colony which gained independence in 1966, is one of only a handful of countries that is a “carbon sink,” meaning it stores more planet-heating pollution than it produces. This is due to its vast rainforest; trees remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as they grow.
The country has protected its biodiversity where others have destroyed theirs, President Ali said in a BBC interview last year. In 2009, the country signed an agreement with Norway, which promised Guyana more than $250 million to preserve its 18.5 million hectares, or nearly 46 million acres, of forests.
Ali insists the country can balance climate leadership and fossil fuel exploitation. The new oil wealth will allow Guayana to develop, including building climate adaptations such as sea walls, he has said. He has also pointed to the continued failures of wealthy countries, already grown rich on their own fossil fuels, to help poorer countries with climate finance.
But there are concerns Guyana could fall victim to the “resource curse,” in which vast, new wealth ?can actually make life worse for those who live there.
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