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Archive for June, 2017

Plotting the characteristic polynomial of a matrix

Wednesday, June 28th, 2017

Next step is determining the roots of the characteristic polynomial of a matrix. Before working on extracting the roots using Newton’s method I wanted to be able to visualize the function.

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Determinant of a matrix in JS

Saturday, June 10th, 2017

I’m currently reading Deep Learning, from Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville. While reading I got interested in calculating the determinant of a square matrix, I know there are many existing libraries to do that but the algorithm looked simply enough to give it a try.

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