Marshall Shen

Cultivate habits

As we go through a global pandemic, we need new life habits in facing a changing environment. It’s helpful to take a step back to think about how we form habits and reflect on how...

17 Apr 2020

We use the Internet to exchange countless amounts of information every day. For most of us, the Internet is a product to consume. Amazon. Instagram. Netflix. Spotify. Snapchat. Facebook. Twitter. Youtube. Gmail. Slack. We consume...

11 Apr 2020

Thinking and Experiencing

Our mind thinks and experiences, but often we are not aware of the difference between them. Thinking is a mental process that consists of ingesting information, analyzing of the ingested information, and responding based on...

31 Mar 2020

Operator, Manager, and Leader

Any business organization has three people roles: operator, manager, and leader. These three roles are not mutually exclusive but emphasize different mindset and sets of actions. When we think about individual growth in business, it’s...

29 Mar 2020

Books of 2019

My reading list of 2019 centered around a few key themes: become a better leader, emotional growth, and understand the world. These books provoked my thinking, aspired me to cultivate more compassion and love towards...

05 Jan 2020

The math of neural networks

$The math of neural networks$

Building neural networks is at the heart of any deep learning technique. Neural networks is a series of forward and backward propagations to train paramters in the model, and it is built on the unit...

05 Sep 2017

The math of logistic classifier

$The math of logistic classifier$

This post demonstrates the mathematical model behind logistic regression, which serves as the building block of the deep learning. I write this post to help others understand deep learning, I also write it for myself...

26 Aug 2017