Consider the following statements:
1. The shape with the largest volume enclosed by a given surface area is the
$n$-dimensional sphere.
2. A marginal or sum of log-concave distributions is log-concave.
3.
Machine learning is very good at optimizing predictions to match an observed
signal --- for instance, given a dataset of input images and labels of the
images (e.g. dog, cat, etc.), machine
In my post on where I plan to donate in 2016
[https://jsteinhardt.wordpress.com/2016/12/28/donations-for-2016/], I said that
I would set aside \$2000 for funding promising projects that I
The following explains where I plan to donate in 2016, with some of my thinking
behind it. This year, I had \$10,000 to allocate (the sum of my giving from 2015
and
When I meet someone who works in a field outside of computer science, I usually
ask them a lot of questions about their field that I'm curious about. (This is
still
