A year ago I wrote a personal essay about the failures that informed my acceptance into grad school and my anxieties of being someone into "esoteric" and "occult" topics while working alongside generally kind and magnanimous Christian theologians. Didn't post until now:
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The Esoteric Impulse
Part 1: Failure in the Borderlands When a computer scientist develops a machine learning algorithm using a cost function, the program will run repeated trials to reduce the variables designated by …
