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Merry Christmas + PSA concerning blog's future
First, a digression. For some reason or another, my Twitter feed and email inbox contains quite many messages from people celebrating “happy holidays” or the “season”. This phenomena is both amusing and sad, because it is a particular holiday with a name that people are celebrating.
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Link: Concerning octopuses (no maths)
Breaking the blogging silence with a story which is too cute not to remark upon (and is there a better place to record random news factoids than a half-dead blog yoy never update; no, there are not):
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Link: Concerning multidimensional spheres
Linkblog entry!
Earlier his week I spotted a fun article about some fascinating properties of high-dimensional volumes:
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Ursula K. LeGuin 1929-2018
SF&F author Ursula K. LeGuin passed away recently.
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Links: Bryan Caplan on Reading News
Linkblog entry: Bryan Caplan on why reading news is mostly, waste of time.
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Quote: [FI] Victor Hugo on *Les Misérables* in a letter to Lamartine
(Summary: Came across a most poetic quotation from Hugo’s letter to Alphonse de Lamartine, translated to Finnish by V. A. Koskenniemi. The English version I found is less striking.)
V. A. Koskenniemi esipuheessaan Hugon romaaniin Kurjat vuonna 1927:
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Link/Paper: Black Death possibly spread by human fleas and body lice, not rats
Previously this week I spotted a mildly interesting news item.
BBC reports that …
Rats were not to blame for the spread of plague during the Black Death, according to a study.
The rodents and their fleas were thought to have spread a series of outbreaks in 14th-19th Century Europe.
But a team from the universities of Oslo and Ferrara now says the first, the Black Death, can be “largely ascribed to human fleas and body lice”.
Then I spotted it again on HN, and noticed that one of the authors participated in the discussion.
Hey, look, it’s Bayesian! So I thought to take a look at the study itself (maybe I can learn something form it?!)
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Link/Book: Computational Complexity, A Modern Approach
More books that I don’t have time to read:
Sanjeev Arora and Boaz Barak
Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach
2007
pdf linkvia this tweet by Susan Holmes:
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Links: DSP resources
As a M.Sc. student with an “applied math” major, I’ve always felt uneasy about the fact that I don’t really know DSP as well as I’d like; only bits and pieces I’ve picked up “on the side”. After all, isn’t DSP a classic applied math topic? OTOH I’m not probably going to be a classic applied math graduate, but nevertheless …
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Notes: Deep learning, review of basics
This autumn I had the opportunity to attend Deep Learning 2017. Here are my review notes for the final course exam.