Abstract Heresies
Unorthodox opinions on computer science and programming.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
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In the last post, I finally figured out what the equations were saying in the Heller and Ghahramani paper. I coded it up and got a bit of l...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
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...continued. I forgot something in the last post. I wanted to illustrate this process in code and I didn't write the code for the fir...
Monday, July 28, 2008
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Can I rant? (Why not, it's my blog.) The results of Heller and Ghahramani are interesting, and the technique is actually pretty cleve...
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... somewhat continued. Our first hypothesis is that we have a single generator for the data points. Since each term is generated independ...
Friday, July 25, 2008
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I had intended to write about clustering, but I went off on a tangent about Bayesian probability. Spectral clustering was disappointing. I ...
Monday, July 21, 2008
A Slightly Less Simple Answer
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If you haven't read the problem in the previous post, I invite you to do so before reading the solution here. We have a coin with an un...
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A simple puzzle
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As you're walking along the street in front of Honest Jake's Biased Coin Factory, you find a quarter on the sidewalk. You suspect i...
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