Readings
The Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa the African (Olaudah Equiano) — a classic autobiography of a 18th century African who was captured and sold into slavery, managed to save enough to buy...
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This is an awesome approach to getting consensus on neighborhood boundaries in Boston. They should do that for Chicago! A history of currywurst. Classical Movies in Miniature Style. I like the horses...
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Myopic adversaries in the Gaussian channel
I’m writing this (but not posting it) from somewhere above Belarus, on my way to Delhi and then on to Bangalore for SPCOM 2012. I was extended a very kind invitation to give a talk there, and I decided...
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I am pleased as punch that Katalin Marton won the 2013 Shannon Award. She made seminal contributions in information theory in the earlier years but has been active in combinatorics and stochastic...
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I have an iPad now (hooray research funds) and I’ve been trying to figure out how to make it more useful for me research-wise. Here are some apps I’ve found, but I would love recommendations on others...
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A comment about maximal versus average error
In my previous post I made some vague comments about maximal and average error which I think are not complicated but don’t often arise when we think about plain vanilla information theory problems....
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Strategies in the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma
Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma contains strategies that dominate any evolutionary opponent William H. Press and Freeman J. Dyson PNAS 109(26), June 26, 2012 This was an interesting little paper that I...
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SPCOM 2012
After a fun trip to Mysore this weekend, I have landed at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore (Bengaluru for those more PC), for SPCOM 2012. This is a 4 day conference (yesterday was...
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SPCOM 2012 : the talks
Well, SPCOM 2012 is over now — it was a lot of fun and a really nice-sized conference. I missed the first day of tutorials, which I heard were fantastic. Qing Zhao couldn’t make it due to visa issues...
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ArXiV notes : July 2012 part 1
I usually tag things from ArXiV that I want to skim later, so I figured I would post the ones I found interesting in the last month or so. Some of them may deserve their own post later. Jet lag is not...
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