I’ve spent much of the last few days reading various ICML papers and I find there’s a few pieces of feedback that I give consistently across several papers. I’ve collated some of …| Academically Interesting
I’ve switched the host of my blog to Ghost, so my blog is now located at This is different from the previous re-hosting on my personal website, which is no longer maintained. Feedly users can…| Academically Interesting
[Update: This post is out of date. My blog has now moved again, to I’ve decided to move this blog to my personal website. It’s now located here: including all the old posts and comments…| Academically Interesting
In my previous post, “Latent Variables and Model Mis-specification”, I argued that while machine learning is good at optimizing accuracy on observed signals, it has less to say about correctly infe…| Academically Interesting
Consider the following statements: The shape with the largest volume enclosed by a given surface area is the $latex n$-dimensional sphere. A marginal or sum of log-concave distributions is log-conc…| Academically Interesting