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Greetings from Allerton 2014
This is not a weeping angel. I hope. “In the battle of ideas for metaphors for explaining these phenomena, graphs are doing pretty well for themselves.” — Jon Kleinberg (at the plenary). Greetings from...
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Allerton 2014: privately charging your information odometer while realizing...
Here are a few papers that I saw at Allerton — more to come later. Group Testing with Unreliable Elements Arya Mazumdar, Soheil Mohajer This was a generalization of the group testing problem: items are...
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Some old links I meant to post a while back but still may be of interest to some… I prefer my okra less slimy, but to each their own. Via Erin, A tour of the old homes of the Mission. Also via Erin,...
View ArticlePostdoctoral position at University of Michigan
A postdoctoral position is available at the University of Michigan Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department for a project related to anomaly detection in networked cyber-physical systems....
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MAP and ML in practice on the New Jersey Turnpike
Since I might be teaching detection and estimation next semester, I’ve been thinking a little bit about decision rules during my commute down the New Jersey Turnpike. The following question came to...
View ArticleDetection and Estimation: book recommendations?
It’s confirmed that I will be teaching Detection and Estimation next semester so I figured I would use the blog to conjure up some book recommendations (or even debate, if I can be so hopeful). Some of...
View ArticleAllerton 2014: hypercontracting interference channels while noisily feeding...
Before the expiration window passes, here are few more short takes from Allerton… for some talks I couldn’t take notes because I didn’t get a seat or I missed half the talk shuttling between sessions....
View ArticleData: what is it good for? (Absolutely Something): the first few weeks
So Waheed Bajwa and I have been teaching this Byrne Seminar on “data science.” At Allerton some people asked me how it was going and what we were covering in the class. These seminars are meant to be...
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Fenchel duality, entropy, and the log partition function
[Update: As Max points out in the comments, this is really a specialized version of the Donsker-Varadhan formula, also mentioned by Mokshay in a comment here. I think the difficulty with concepts like...
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