Notebooks

http://bactra.org/notebooks/density-estimation.html

(19 Sep 2014 14:35)
Yet Another Inadequate Placeholder, spun off from statistics...

http://bactra.org/notebooks/thought-and-society.html

(22 Sep 2014 20:28)

Not thinking about society, but how society and culture shape thought...

http://bactra.org/notebooks/historical-materialism.html

(22 Sep 2014 20:28)
An appalling name for an important idea...

http://bactra.org/notebooks/america.html

(22 Sep 2014 20:40)

The furnace where the future is being forged...

http://bactra.org/notebooks/statistics.html

(22 Sep 2014 20:41)


An application of probability, with intimate
ties to machine learning,
non-demonstrative inference and induction...

http://bactra.org/notebooks/regression.html

(25 Sep 2014 11:57)
"Regression", in statistical jargon, is the problem of guessing the average
level of some quantitative response variable from various predictor variables...

http://bactra.org/notebooks/classical-era-mediterranean.html

(29 Sep 2014 12:36)

I couldn't have been more than nine or ten when I started reading books
about Greek mythology...

http://bactra.org/notebooks/neuro-synch.html

(28 Sep 2014 21:59)
See also:
Synchronization;
Neural Coding;
Neuroscience

Recommended:
Andreas K...

http://bactra.org/notebooks/maya.html

(26 Sep 2014 12:15)

A deeply inadequate placeholder...

http://bactra.org/notebooks/computation.html

(25 Sep 2014 21:37)
Computers aren't made of matter...

http://bactra.org/notebooks/manifold-learning.html

(25 Sep 2014 20:17)
Suppose that we observe random vectors $X$ in some $p$-dimensional space,
most of ordinary Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^p$...

http://bactra.org/notebooks/neuroscience.html

(25 Sep 2014 20:17)




Esp...

http://bactra.org/notebooks/hyperbolic-networks.html

(25 Sep 2014 20:03)
An idea for generating lots of the properties commonly observed
of complex networks --- highly-skewed
degree distributions especially --- from a nice, continuous underlying
manifold...

http://bactra.org/notebooks/lit-crit.html

(29 Sep 2014 12:40)

There are a great many books to read; there are many place to travel to...

http://bactra.org/notebooks/memes.html

(29 Sep 2014 12:40)
Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man...