We have a new poet laureate, W.S. Merwin. Here is one of his: Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color. and another: Rain Light All day the stars watch from long ago my mother said I am going now when you are alone you will be all right whether or not you know you will know look at the old house in the dawn rain all the flowers are forms of water the sun reminds them through a white cloud touches the patchwork spread on the hill […]
John L. Taylor
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I recently started reading Topology for Computing by Afra J. Zomorodian, and before it launched into its admirably lucid explanation of topology, group theory and the like, it featured a clever illustration by the author:
These are my links for May 27th from 02:21 to 09:21: Introduction to Graphical Modelling – The aim of this chapter is twofold. In the first part we will provide a brief overview of the mathematical and statistical foundations of graphical models, along with their fundamental properties, estimation and basic inference procedures. In particular we will develop Markov networks (also known as Markov random fields) and Bayesian networks, which comprise most past and current literature on graphical models. In the second part we will review some applications of graphical models in systems biology. [1005.0437] A Unifying View of Multiple Kernel […]
These are my links for May 4th through May 14th: [1005.1320] The myth of equidistribution for high-dimensional simulation – A pseudo-random number generator (RNG) might be used to generate w-bit random samples in d dimensions if the number of state bits is at least dw. Some RNGs perform better than others and the concept of equidistribution has been introduced in the literature in order to rank different RNGs. We define what it means for a RNG to be (d,w)-equidistributed, and then argue that (d,w)-equidistribution is not necessarily a desirable property. [1005.1327] Statistical Model Checking : An Overview – Quantitative properties […]
These are my links for April 26th through April 30th: DoCIS: Documents in Computer and Library & Information Science – DoCIS is a service of the rclis digital library. rclis is dedicated to promoting free access to data about documents in computing and library and information science.DoCIS provides an integrated browsing/searching interface to rclis data. To start browsing our collection, please look at the list of journals and conference proceedings that we cover. See our service principles and our internal documentation for details. Mathematical Problems by David Hilbert – The supply of problems in mathematics is inexhaustible, and as soon […]
A functioning Turing machine! OK, it doesn’t have an indefinitely extensible tape, but you get the idea.