Around the blogs in 78 hours

Meteors: Nature's way of asking "How's that space program coming along?" 

Since the last Around the blogs in 80 summer hours, the main discussion groups have gathered the following number of people: 

• Google+ Community (226), 
• the CompressiveSensing subreddit (82), 
• the LinkedIn Compressive Sensing group (2058) or 
• the Matrix Factorization (561) 
• Gaussian Belief Propagation: Theory and Practice (81
• Robust Mathematical Modeling / Modélisation Mathématique Robuste (68)
• The Calibration Club (29)

Please, join the conversations !

Different blogs featured the following items of interest:

Larry:

• Rise of the Machines

AIB:

• Bengio LeCun Deep Learning Video

Vladimir

• Eric Fossum Talks about Image Sensors at Dartmouth

OpenPicus

• Cut your development time from several months to two weeks: the HighStep Systems Ltd case.

Danny

• A few useful things to know about machine learning
• Literature survey of graph databases
• The world's coolest machine learning internships - part 2
• Label propagation in GraphChi
• Setting up Java GraphChi development environment - and running sample ALS
• GraphLab team 3rd place in Yandex WSDM contest
• Case study: million songs dataset

Tianyi

• Greedy Bilateral (GreB) Paradigm for Large-scale Matrix Completion, Robust PCA and Low-rank Approximation

MathBlogging:

• Mathematical Instruments: Nassif Ghoussoub
• Mathematical Instruments: Alexander Bogomolny

Bob

• Comparing two classifiers using a contingency table, pt. 1
• Paper of the Day (Po'D): Three current issues in music autotagging edition
• Paper of the Day (Po'D): Automatic classification of musical genres using inter-genre similarity edition
• Test results for inter-genre similarity, part 1
• Test results for inter-genre similarity, part 2
• Test results for inter-genre similarity, part 3
• Test results for inter-genre similarity, part 4
• Paper of the Day (Po'D): Multi-tasking with joint semantic spaces

HackaDay

• Quadcopter brain

Leon

• Survey on Non Parametric Bayesian with some marginal applications
• Featured MO Question- Message Passing in GM

Suresh

• TCS+ hangout on the TSP polytope.

John

• Remote large scale learning class participation

Muthu

• DIMACS/Stanford/Technicolor workshop on Economics of Info

Djalil

• Euclidean kernel random matrices in high dimension
• What is a good journal?

Terry

• The pseudoconformal and conformal transformations

Lupi:

• Mind your tail

What about over on Nuit Blanche ? Over the course of the past few weeks, we have seen a number of entries on hardware, hardware hacking and related issues such as calibration. Here they are:

Hardware Hacking:

• Hardware Hacking: ParisEmbedded Meetup #2 
• Ben's Chicken Challenge 
• Call for Interest in a CubeSat experiment 

Hardware and Calibration

• Coded Hyperspectral Imaging and Blind Compressive Sensing
• InView Announces Compressive Sensing Workstation 
• Phase Diagram and Approximate Message Passing for Blind Calibration and Dictionary Learning
• Three-dimensional ghost imaging ladar
• Spread spectrum compressed sensing MRI using chirp radio frequency pulses
• Analog to Information: Breaking the Nyquist barrier 

Derin reminded me to put an implementation on the list as I had promised (Welcome back to the Jungle) but we had a few implementations showing up since the last around the blogs. They are:

• Correcting Camera Shake by Incremental Sparse Approximation - implementation -
• Structure-Based Bayesian Sparse Reconstruction - implementation -

Publishing: We had a public review of two papers, one strengthened the paper, the other pointed to a weakness:

• That Netflix RMSE is way too low or is it ? ( Clustering-Based Matrix Factorization - implementation -) 
• This Week's Guardians of Science: Zeno Gantner and Peyman Milanfar 
• Negative reviews and the weak minded 

Sunday Morning Insight, I updated this entry since I first wrote it:

• Sunday Morning Insight: Stripe Physics, Wavelets and Compressive Sensing Solvers

More in-depth entries:

• The Unbearable Lightness of Seeing 
• Tolerance to Ambiguity: Sparsity and the Bayesian Perspective 
• Binary Compressed Imaging
• Exact Sparse Recovery with L0 Projections 
• Non-adaptive pooling strategies for detection of rare faulty items / Improved Constructions for Non-adaptive Threshold Group Testing 
• Breaking the coherence barrier: asymptotic incoherence and asymptotic sparsity in compressed sensing 
• When Does Computational Imaging Improve Performance?
• Nuit Blanche in Review (January 2013 edition) 
• Part Deux: This (Past) Month in Compressive Sensing and Matrix Factorization 
• This (Past) Month in Compressive Sensing and Matrix Factorization 
• A Randomized Parallel Algorithm with Run Time $O(n^2)$ for Solving an $n \times n$ System of Linear Equations - implementation -
• Tensor completion based on nuclear norm minimization for 5D seismic data reconstruction
• Linear Bandits in High Dimension and Recommendation Systems
• Signal reconstruction in linear mixing systems with additive error metrics (video introduction)

Job:

• CSJob: Signal processing summer internship Computational Sensing and Imaging Group, Rambus Labs, Sunnyvale, CA

Meeting:

• ROKS 2013 International Workshop on Advances in Regularization, Optimization, Kernel Methods and Support Vector Machines

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