Mathematician uses SVGD to evenly distribute Christmas tree lights

Prompted by his daughter's complaint about unevenly distributed Christmas lights, mathematician Paul Thompson demonstrated in a blog post how Stein Variational Gradient Descent (SVGD) can be used to spread lights uniformly over a cone-shaped tree.

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