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
Here are two strange facts about matrices, which I can prove but not in a
satisfying way.
1. If $A$ and $B$ are symmetric matrices satisfying $0 \preceq A \preceq B$,
then $A^