Self-driving motorhomes are the solarpunk future. Acknowledgements: Co-authored with Opus 4.7 and 4.6 as an experiment in AI-assisted writing. This essay was inspired by John Loeber’s excellent piece on howContinue readingAgglomeration Without Land
Say you’re shuffling a deck of cards. It’s poker night and your friends are watching with gimlet eyes to make sure you shuffle properly. Under pressure, you keep shuffling untilContinue readingMarkov Chains, Mixing Times and Couplings
I recently read the surprisingly well-written paper Impacts of biodiversity on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases by Keesing et al. Here are some quick notes and highlights. First,Continue readingDoes Biodiversity Prevent Pandemics?
These are some cleaned-up notes based on Preetham Venkatesh’s talk to IISc Naturalists on AlphaFold2’s recent CASP win. For a basic summary of what happened, see Deepmind’s blog post AlphaFold:Continue readingNotes on AlphaFold2
Here’s a simple dynamical system. You start with a 2D integer vector . Now you rotate this vector around the origin by a fixed angle. This gives you a vectorContinue readingOn the 2D Rotation Rounding Problem
This is a short review of the paper Understanding Deep Learning Requires Rethinking Generalization by Zhang et al, published in ICLR 2017, which I wrote as part of the applicationContinue readingHow Come Deep Neural Networks Generalize?
