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Vinicius C. Costa

Vinicius C. Costa

My Academic Experience before Yale

Some people ask me about my experience applying to American colleges from Brazil. I figured I would write some of my experience here.

2 min readJun 11, 2021

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Vinicius C. Costa

A set is open if, and only if, its complement is closed!

This was a write up I did as I digested the definitions of topology and analysis from scratch. Here I prove some of the basic theorems…

1 min readJul 12, 2019

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Vinicius C. Costa

How I discovered the Axiom of Choice

Constructing a function f, we don’t always need to have an explicit construction.

1 min readJul 12, 2019

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Vinicius C. Costa

On Developing Theory from Scratch, or how there’s more to Maths than rigor.

First, I should disclaim I got this title from Terry Tao’s blog.

4 min readJul 1, 2019

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Vinicius C. Costa

KL-divergence

Reading on the paper “Efficient 8-Bit Quantization of Transformer Neural Machine Language Translation Model” (Bhandare et al. 2019), I was…

2 min readJun 20, 2019

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Vinicius C. Costa

Understanding the Structure of a CNN

To understand how a convolutional neural net works, it’s important to learn how a simple feedforward neural net works first. That’s…

3 min readApr 17, 2019

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Understanding the Structure of a CNN

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Vinicius C. Costa

Softmax Function

Just a simple write-up about the softmax function.

2 min readMar 23, 2019

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Reflections on the Mystery of Neural Networks

When humans learn language, we sometimes can explain why we speak the way we speak, but many times we can’t. It’s not always logical.

2 min readMar 18, 2019

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Reflections on the Mystery of Neural Networks

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Vinicius C. Costa

First Blog Post

This is my first blog post. I’ll be posting about my adventure on learning. I’ve been learning a lot about Deep Learning, NLP…

1 min readMar 8, 2019

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Vinicius C. Costa

Vinicius C. Costa

Second-year Math Ph.D. student. Previously worked in Machine Learning. Big fan of human languages and the art of problem-solving.

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