morsels
Random talks and miscellanea.
random presentations and slides
- Restatement of a proof of the impossibility of probabilistic induction
- Slides on probability, epistemology, induction, simplicity, and content.. This talk was on a 1975 paper by I.J Good titled Explicativity, Corroboration, and the Relative Odds of Hypotheses. The paper is Good’s response to Karl Popper, and in the presentation I compare the two philosophers’ views.
- Randomized Newton’s Method for convex optimization
- Semi-legible notes on Stein Variational Gradient Descent by Liu and Wang.
- UDLS presentation about the non-existence of free will.
- An interactive introduction to Bayesian non-parametrics. Static version.
poems by others
- Wanted by Vladimir Nabokov (as Humbert Humbert)
- Do not stand at my grave and weep by Mary Elizabeth Frye
- The Love Feast by W.H. Auden
- Aedh wishes for the cloths of the heavens by W.B. Yeats
- Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
- An Irish Airman Foresees His Death by W.B. Yeats
- Insomniac by Sylvia Plath
- Fire and Ice by Robert Frost
- Figs from Thistles: First Fig by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Church Going by Philip Larkin
- The Refrigerator Awakes by Vladimir Nabokov
- On Discovering a Butterfly by Vladimir Nabokov
- Wonder by Maya Angelou
- A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe
- Just Walking Around by John Ashbery