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