Here’s an interesting puzzle which was part of the application for SPARC 2016. (Applications are now closed) Suppose you have 240 cookie jars, one of which has been poisoned, so
Writing
I edited Resistance; Tales from a Post-Antibiotic World, an anthology of short fiction themed around antibiotic resistance. While microbiologists and other scientists have been warning about the dangers of drug-resistant bacteria for years, as far as I know there haven’t been significant reductions in the amount of antibiotics given to livestock, which is a major cause of resistance, and relatively easily reduced. You can buy it on Amazon.
Gaurang Sriramanan and I had some fun messing around with Wasserstein training to build robust image classifiers. (pdf link)