Back in the early 1990s, I worked in a large telecoms research lab, as part of the Advanced Local Loop group. Our problem domain was the “last mile”—getting services to peoples’ homes. One of my ...

One of the fundamental operations in machine learning is computing the inverse of a square matrix. But not all matrices have an inverse. The most common way to check if a matrix has an inverse or not ...

Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of computing a matrix inverse using the Newton iteration algorithm. Compared to other algorithms, Newton ...