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C.R. Rao and information geometry
On Lalitha’s recommendation I read Frank Nielsen’s paper “Cramer-Rao Lower Bound and Information Geometry,” which is a survey how C.R. Rao’s work has impacted information geometry. I remember spending...
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Endless Things [John Crowley] — Book four of the Aegypt Cycle, and the one most grounded in the present. The book moves more swiftly than the others, as if Crowley was racing to the end. Many of the...
View ArticleA new job for me
I’m happy to announce that in January 2014 I will be joining the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, as an Assistant Professor.
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I’ve been on some flights lately and skived off of work to read a bit more. The White Tiger (Aravind Adiga) — a farce told from the perspective of a murderer-turned entrepreneur in Bangalore writing...
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Learning from transcriptomes can be cheaper for organisms which have never been sequenced. A fancy Nature article on mobility privacy, in case you weren’t convinced by other studies on mobility...
View ArticleRAR : a cry of rage
I’ve been trying to get a camera-ready article for the Signal Processing Magazine and the instructions from IEEE include the following snippet: *VERY IMPORTANT: All source files ( .tex, .doc, .eps,...
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Expected number of faces in Gaussian polytopes
Last week I was reading Active Learning via Perfect Selective Classification by El-Yaniv and Wiener, and came across a neat result due to Hug and Reitzner that they use in some of their bounds for...
View ArticleDagadful and nag kesar
A few months ago I was home visiting my parents and we had a lunch with a few other Maharashtrians. The conversation turned towards food, and in particular ingredients that are important for making...
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More ArXiV skims
Assumptionless consistency of the Lasso Sourav Chatterjee The title says it all. Given -dimensional data points the Lasso tries to fit the model by minimizing the penalized squared error . The paper...
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HGR maximal correlation revisited : a corrected reverse inequality
Sudeep Kamath sent me a note about a recent result he posted on the ArXiV that relates to an earlier post of mine on the HGR maximal correlation and an inequality by Erkip and Cover for Markov chains...
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