Linkblogging

(.all) > Sep 20, 2018 > Link: Concerning octopuses (no maths)
  ... Breaking the blogging silence with a story which is too...

(.all) > Mar 11, 2018 > Link: Concerning multidimensional spheres
  ... Linkblog entry! Earlier his week I spotted a fun article...

(.all) > Jan 24, 2018 > Ursula K. LeGuin 1929-2018
  ... SF&F author Ursula K. LeGuin passed away recently.

(.all) > Jan 20, 2018 > Links: Bryan Caplan on Reading News
  ... Linkblog entry: Bryan Caplan on why reading news is mostly,...

(.all) > Jan 20, 2018 > Quote: [FI] Victor Hugo on *Les Misérables* in...
  ... (Summary: Came across a most poetic quotation from Hugo’s letter...

(.all) > Jan 17, 2018 > Link/Paper: Black Death possibly spread by human fleas...
  ... Previously this week I spotted a mildly interesting news item....

(.all) > Jan 1, 2018 > Link/Book: Computational Complexity, A Modern Approach
  ... More books that I don’t have time to read: Sanjeev...

(.all) > Dec 30, 2017 > Links: DSP resources
  ... As a M.Sc. student with an “applied math” major, I’ve...

(.all) > Dec 18, 2017 > Link: Illustrative example (from radiology) why data quality...
  ... Spotted this on Twitter: Luke Oakden-Rayner is a PhD candidate...

(.all) > Dec 17, 2017 > Link + Notes: Statistical Crisis in Science (Gelman...
  ... YouTube link: The Statistical Crisis in Science and How to...

(.all) > Dec 16, 2017 > Link: Fun image scatterplot visualization
  ... Exactly what it says in the title: https://alexander.engineering/imagescatter/

(.all) > Dec 16, 2017 > Link: Kid-reviewed science journal
  ... What a fun idea: Frontiers for Young Minds is a...

(.all) > Dec 1, 2017 > Link: Five Ways to Fix Statistics
  ... Via Andrew Gelman’s blog: “Five Ways to Fix Statistics”, comment...

(.all) > Nov 29, 2017 > Link: Annealing and Ensembling RMNIST
  ... Nielsen: RMNIST with annealing and ensembling. (Short notes.)

(.all) > Nov 29, 2017 > Link: Chidambaram On Research Statements
  ... Short post: Advice on writing research statements, tweetstorm by Vijay...

(.all) > Nov 29, 2017 > Link (+ scattered notes): Impossibility of Intelligence Explosion...
  ... As you might’ve have already noticed, I think Francois Chollet...

(.all) > Nov 26, 2017 > Links/Papers: Word2Vec + History + Stuff
  ... Another topic of today: Word2Vec and predecessors. This post belongs...

(.all) > Nov 26, 2017 > Link/Paper: Feature Visualization + Notes
  ... Okay, let’s try to get started with this idea of...

(.all) > Nov 26, 2017 > Meta: Monthly Links Posts Discontinued
  ... I don’t know if I have any readers, but as...

(.all) > Nov 9, 2017 > Links: Notes about MCMC on bounded domains
  ... A note to self: Recently I had an exercise task...

(.all) > Oct 21, 2017 > Notes: Evolutionary Computation
  ... Topic of use of evolutionary computation in development of AI...

(.all) > Sep 2, 2017 > Link (+ Short comment): Math still not everywhere...
  ... Remember Barany’s claim that math isn’t everywhere? The adventure continues!...

(.all) > Jul 18, 2017 > Link: Chollet on limitations of deep learning
  ... Francois Chollet: The limitations of Deep Learning. (17 July 2017.)...

(.all) > Jul 9, 2017 > Links: Concerning Momentum Methods [Goh]
  ... Main link content: Gabriel Goh, 2017. “Why Momentum Really Works”....

(.all) > Jun 25, 2017 > Link: Michael Nielsen on Cognitive Interfaces (2016) +...
  ... Another topic for today: Thought as a Technology, a fascinating...

(.all) > Jun 24, 2017 > Link, Paper: Measuring Gerrymandering with MCMC Electoral Redistricting...
  ... Bangia et al. 2017. “Redistricting: Drawing the Line”. Arxiv preprint:...

(.all) > Jun 21, 2017 > Link: Fields Medalist Cédric Villani elected to the...
  ... Pain, Elisabeth: “Q&A: Why a top mathematician has joined Emmanuel...

(.all) > Jun 2, 2017 > Link: git --force-with-lease
  ... I recently heard about git --force-with-lease and why it is...

(.all) > May 1, 2017 > Unsorted links, April 2017: More AI misinformation, Tolkien,...
  ... A monthly collection of random links and commentary. Topics include:...

(.all) > Apr 15, 2017 > Unsorted links for March 2017: Earth has always...
  ... An assorted selection of random links!

(.all) > Mar 28, 2017 > Link: Zachary C. Lipton on AI Misinformation Epidemic...
  ... This might be interesting: Zachary C. Lipton, blogging at Approximately...

(.all) > Mar 4, 2017 > Link: WaPo, artificial intelligence, kids, and Asimov
  ... Washington Post: How millions of kids are being shaped by...

(.all) > Feb 16, 2017 > Link: Visualizing the Riemann Hypothesis [Devlin/Sanderson]
  ... “…just remember that this is not magic and it is...

(.all) > Dec 26, 2016 > Link: AMS Open Math Notes
  ... AMS recently launched a repository of mathematics lecture notes /...

(.all) > Dec 26, 2016 > Link: Gelman, Dickens, Coincidences and Network Sampling
  ... To continue with the Christmas theme: What Charles Dickens’ works...

(.all) > Dec 24, 2016 > Link (Finnish): Simo K. Kivelän funktioteoreettiset piparit
  ... Simo K. Kivelä presents totally-not-so-serious Christmas-themed application of higher maths:...

(.all) > Oct 19, 2016 > Link(s): Junaid Mubeen on maths education
  ... I strongly dislike Medium as platform. Nevertheless, here are links:...

(.all) > Oct 17, 2016 > Link: A Dramatic Tour through Python's Data Visualization...
  ... TL;DR Woah, Seaborn looks nice. (via HN a couple of...

(.all) > Oct 12, 2016 > Links/Notes: (Restricted) Boltzmann Machines
  ... What I’ve been reading about lately: Restricted Boltzmann machines.

(.all) > Sep 27, 2016 > Link: New Realism
  ... A claim: “The Hottest Trend” in philosophy today is “New...

(.all) > Sep 27, 2016 > Link: ...hot hand fallacy isn't necessarily a fallacy...
  ... J. B. Miller, A. Sanjurjo: Surprised by the Gambler’s and...

(.all) > Sep 27, 2016 > Link: What Every Coder Should Know About Gamma...
  ... Johan Novak blogged last week about gamma correction: What Every...

(.all) > Sep 25, 2016 > Link: Gelman / '... the winds have changed'...
  ... Andrew Gelman: What has happened down here is the winds...

(.all) > Sep 25, 2016 > Blogroll: The Renaissance Mathematicus
  ... The Renaissance Mathematicus blogs about the history and philosophy of...

(.all) > Sep 25, 2016 > Link: Math is / is not everywhere
  ... Michael J. Barany on Scientific American: Mathematicians Are Overselling the...

(.all) > Aug 28, 2016 > Link: Scientific papers contain Excel errors (WaPo)
  ... WaPo’s Wonkblog: An alarming number of scientific papers contain Excel...

(.all) > Aug 28, 2016 > Link: Facial Feedback Hypothesis
  ... Looks like holding pens in your mouth does not influence...

(.all) > Aug 28, 2016 > Link: In Mathematics, Mistakes Aren't What they used...
  ... Nautilus: a nice article about proof assistants and future of...

(.all) > Aug 27, 2016 > Link: Introduction to Stochastic Processes
  ... Introduction to Stochastic Processes, lecture notes by Gordan Žitković from...

(.all) > Aug 27, 2016 > Links/Notes: Random walks, processes and human notion of...
  ... Notes about random walks, stochastic processses, and stuff.

(.all) > Aug 26, 2016 > Link: FMI Wave height observations
  ... FMI provides wave height measurements from several stations

(.all) > Aug 26, 2016 > Linkblog: Git Undo (Enrico Campidoglio)
  ... Git Undo, presented by Enrico (‘Italian programmer in Sweden’).

(.all) > Aug 26, 2016 > Linkblog: xkcd 1724 - Proofs
  ... Recent XKCD on proofs.

(.all) > Aug 26, 2016 > Linkblog: Applied Mathematical Programming by BHM (and other...
  ... Applied Mathematical Programming by Bradley, Hax, and Magnanti (Addison-Wesley, 1977)...

(.all) > Aug 26, 2016 > Linkblog: Warm Starting Bayesian Optimization (arxiv)
  ... Preprints from arxiv: Poloczek, Wang, Frazier: Warm Starting Bayesian Optimization....

(.all) > Aug 25, 2016 > Linkblog: How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds
  ... Related to the previous post. How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds...

(.all) > Aug 25, 2016 > Linkblog: Static site generators are harmful to the...
  ... Something I found while DDG’ing for something totally different: A...

(.all) > Aug 25, 2016 > Linkblog: Two curious integrals
  ... H. Schmid: Two curious integrals and a graphic proof. Elem....

(.all) > Aug 25, 2016 > Linkblog: Tsoha [in Finnish]
  ... Lecture notes for Tsoha (Database application Project / Tietokantasovellus) course...

(.all) > Aug 21, 2016 > Linkblog: Building Machines That Learn and Think Like...
  ... More stuff I’ve been reading: Lake, Ullman, Tenenbaum, Gershman. Building...

(.all) > Aug 21, 2016 > Linkblog: Rankings Versus Ratings (Gödel's Lost Letter)
  ... Stuff I read during this weekend: Gödel’s Lost Letter: Rankings...

(.all) > Aug 21, 2016 > Linkblog: What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About...
  ... D. Goldberg: What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point...

(.all) > Aug 21, 2016 > Linkblog: Python + Excel
  ... Stuff I found out this week: There exists multiple Python...

(.all) > Aug 21, 2016 > Linkblog: Habits of Highly Mathematical People
  ... Habits of Highly Mathematical People. Jeremy Kun on why studying...

(.all) > Aug 21, 2016 > Linkblog: Fortran resources
  ... re: f2py. todo: it might be useful to learn Fortran...

(.all) > Aug 21, 2016 > Linkblog: f2py
  ... note to self: f2py. Fortran + Python for speed.

(.all) > Aug 21, 2016 > Linkblog: GMT
  ... GMT

(.all) > Aug 21, 2016 > Blogroll: Computational Complexity (L. Fortnow, W. Gasarch)
  ... Blogroll: Computational Complexity

(.all) > Aug 20, 2016 > Linkblog: What is a Proof?
  ... with high probability blogged not a long time ago about...

(.all) > Aug 20, 2016 > Blogroll: with high probability (Sami Davies)
  ... Adding with high probability by Sami Davies to blogroll.

(.all) > Aug 16, 2016 > Linkblog: A Surprise For Big-Data Analytics (Gödel's Lost...
  ... Gödel’s Lost Letter blogs about a proof by Landweber, Lazar...

(.all) > Aug 16, 2016 > Blogroll: Gödel's Lost Letter (R. J. Lipton, K....
  ... Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP.

(.all) > Aug 15, 2016 > Linkblog: List of paradoxes
  ... Wikipedia has a lot of lists (of lists of lists)....

(.all) > Aug 15, 2016 > Linkblog: vision.cs.tut.fi
  ... vision.cs.tut.fi

(.all) > Aug 15, 2016 > Article/Linkblog: Kobak et al: Integer percentages as electroral...
  ... Dmitry Kobak, Sergey Shpilkin, M. S. Pshenichnikov: Integer percentages as...

(.all) > Aug 15, 2016 > Article/Linkblog: Brown and Heathers: the GRIM test
  ... Nicholas Brown, James Heathers: The GRIM test: A simple technique...

(.all) > Aug 15, 2016 > Linkblog: Economic History Readings
  ... Pseudoerasmus: Economic History Reading list

(.all) > Aug 14, 2016 > Linkblog: Common mistakes in statistics.
  ... Common Mistakes in Using Statistics: Spotting and Avoiding them.

(.all) > Aug 14, 2016 > Article/Linkblog: Bunerjee et. al.: Efficient Gaussian process regression...
  ... Looks interesting: Anjishnu Bunerjee, David D. Dunson, Surya Tokdar: Efficient...

(.all) > Aug 14, 2016 > Article/Linkblog: Brochu et al.: A Tutorial on Bayesian...
  ... Arxiv paper: Eric Brochu, Vlad M. Cora, Nando de Freitas:...

(.all) > Aug 13, 2016 > Linkblog: Sarjakuvapoliisit [Finnish]
  ... Awesome: Sarjakuvapoliisit. Podcasts, vodcasts, etc. on comics.

(.all) > Aug 13, 2016 > Linkblog: E-Mail from Bill
  ... The New Yorker in January 1994: E-mail from Bill.

(.all) > Aug 13, 2016 > Linkblog: MathPages.com
  ... MathPages.

(.all) > Aug 13, 2016 > Linkblog: Mathematical discussions (Gowers)
  ... Gowers’s mathematical discussions.

(.all) > Aug 13, 2016 > Linkblog: Gowers' Maths Links
  ... Gowers extensive list of math researchers’ home pages. (Oh hey,...

(.all) > Aug 13, 2016 > Blogroll: Gowers's Weblog
  ... Sir Timothy Gowers has a weblog.

(.all) > Aug 13, 2016 > Blogroll: Combinatorics and more (Gil Kalai)
  ... Gil Kalai’s blog: Combinatorics and more.

(.all) > Aug 12, 2016 > Linkblog: Mathematicians on Math Competitions
  ... A LessWrong post from 2010: a bunch of quotes on...

(.all) > Aug 12, 2016 > Linkblog: The best linear algebra books
  ... Begriffs has a nice list of linear algebra textbooks.