Around the blogs in 78 Summer hours

It's been a while since the last Around the blogs in 78 hours, here is what I could gather from the past month and a half:

Dustin

• Gordon’s escape through a mesh theorem
• My research explained, using only the 1000 most common English words
• Deterministic RIP matrices: Breaking the square-root bottleneck, III

Rich

• Everybody Must Get STOne
• Personalized Learning Workshop 2 April 2014
• Connexions Conference 30 March-3 April 2014
• The Future of Online Education
• OpenStax College @ Consumer Electronics Show

Muthu

• Streaming PhD, MSR, Cambridge and Cormode
• Friends Making Things
• Let us start 2014
• Quick ACM Notes
• ISAAC Talk on Social Ad Markets

Stephen

• Compressed sensing and genomes v2
• Looking back at the credit crisis
• Miserable bankers
• Darwin, Mendel and statistical fluctuations
• $alaries in the City
• WhatsApp?
• Caltech honor code and cheating
• Genetic architecture of intelligence (video with improved sound)
• Hints of genomic dark matter: rare variants contribute to schizophrenia risk
• Genetic engineering of monkeys using CRISPR
• Locality and Nonlinear Quantum Mechanics
• Hoxby: elite universities as venture investors in human capital
• “We basically have the whole genome sequence of an entire nation.”
• Flying robot jellyfish
• Cancer genomics

Thomas

• Rock Your Paper
• Transforming Peer Review Bibliography
• There’s a new journal in town…
• Academia.edu acquires Plasmyd to bring peer review into the 21st century
• More on anonymity in peer review
• Science Publishing Laboratory
• An emerging consensus for open evaluation: 18 visions for the future of scientific publishing
• Third-party review platforms
• A look at the process of submitting articles to OA journals | Open Science

Moritz

• False Discovery and Differential Privacy

Carson

• (Lack of) Progress in neuroscience
• Brain discussion
• The Stephanie Event
• The myth of maladaptation
• The Bitcoin economy
• Symplectic Integrators

Vladimir

•   NHK Imaging Projects
• ST on Image Sensor Market, More
• Maru LSI Demos Background Elimination
• How to Measure MTF
• Pelican Imaging CEO Promotes Array Camera
• Microsoft ToF Kinect Presentation at ISSCC
• Grand View on Image Sensor Market
• Low Cost IR Imagers Coming
• ISSCC 2014 Review
• Recent Patent Applications

John

• What good is an old weather forecast?
• Probability is subtle

Terry

• Polymath8b, IX: Large quadratic programs
• Polymath8b, VIII: Time to start writing up the results?
• Polymath8b, VII: Using the generalised Elliott-Halberstam hypothesis to enlarge the sieve support yet further
• “New equidistribution estimates of Zhang type, and bounded gaps between primes” – and a retrospective
• Finite time blowup for an averaged three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation

WR

• Checkpointing MATLAB Programs

Djalil

• Back to basics – A moment with moments
• Dyson about Littlewood
• Random bits

Gael

Work with us on putting machine learning in the hand of cognitive scientists


Kaggle

• Kaggle Newsletter: Looking up at the presents, down on the map, and out to the galaxy in 2014
• Kaggle Newsletter: Intel puts more Mania into March

Afonso

• The Lowner-Heinz Theorem and a simple result that should have a simpler proof
• Boolean annulus-avoiding subspace problem
• Guest post by Andy Zhu: Alignment and Unique Games
• Some of my work explained in the ten hundred most used words

PTR

• News for January 2014
• Open problem for Jan 2014: Explicit lower bound for MAPs
• SODA 2014
• ITCS 2014
• On Quantum Property Testing

Cable

• Fun with Boiling

Deep Learning

• Google Acquires Deep Mind

Danny

• O'Reilly Blog Post on GraphLab SFrames
• Drug repurposing using GraphLab
• Spotlight: Treato - big data analytics for patient reaction to medication
• DARPA* project contributes graphical models toolkit to GraphLab
• Prof. Joe Hellerstein intreviews @ BigDataSV
• Dendrite: Combining Titan+GraphLab into a powerful suite
• Yeppp! math library
• TunkRank on GraphLab
• HP Titan - a notable presentation by Dr. Ira Cohen, HP Software
• Benchmarking GraphLab vs. Hadoop
• GraphLab tutorial @ the iSocial Summer School in Stockholm June 2-4, 2014
• MLConf NY event - April 11, 2014
• Sense: collaborative data science in the cloud

Josh

• SU2 Community Verification Studies
• TPS Sizing with Complex Step Method
• SU2 v3 Released
• CFD Vision 2030: Discretizations, Solvers, and Numerics
• Flight Demo Program Lessons Learned
• RAND: no life-cycle cost savings from joint aircraft
• Phil Roe: Colorful Fluid Dynamics
• Algorithmic Improvements: just as important as Moore's Law

SAGE

• What is SageMathCloud?

Anna

• Mostly Math Manipulatives

Martin

• Borromean Rings

Brian

• Digesting 2013 results from Cognex
• New reading material
• Cognex staying above the fray?
• Knowing when it’s a bin job
• Design-in data capture from the start
• Don’t give me half the story!

Bob

• Faults in the Latin Music Database
• One solution to the wine puzzle
• Faults in the Ballroom dataset
• Paper of the Day (Po'D): Cross-validation and bootstrap edition
• A Wine Puzzle
• DFF FTP Independent Postdoc Project Results 2012-2013

Greg
Lets build something together, the Tin Can Radar Forum




Carson



While on Nuit Blanche, we had:

• Saturday Morning Video: Project Tango
• Organizing Meetups: Some Tips
• Interest Zone Matrix Approximation - implementation -
• REMODE: Probabilistic, Monocular Dense Reconstruction in Real Time - implementation -
• Randomized LU Decomposition - implementation -
• Nonlinear estimation of material abundances in hyperspectral images with L1-norm spatial regularization - implementation -
• Kernel LMS algorithm with forward-backward splitting for dictionary learning - implementation -
• Sunday Morning Insight: Phase transitions and sample complexity in Bayes-optimal matrix factorization
• Blind Image Deblurring with Unknown Boundaries Using the Alternating Method of Multipliers - implementation -
• Signal to Noise Ratio in Lensless Compressive Imaging / Compressive and Adaptive Millimeter-wave SAR / Efficient Low Dose X-ray CT Reconstruction
• Ce soir/Tonight: Paris Machine Learning Meetup #8: Finding a needle in a Haystack, Beyond SGD, Analyzing Wikipedia, Kolibree, Winning Kaggle "Dogs vs Cats"
• Is Bad Learning Learning ?
• Model-based Sketching and Recovery with Expanders / For-all Sparse Recovery in Near-Optimal Time
• Sparse Factor Analysis for Learning and Content Analytics
• Paris Machine Learning Meetup #8: Finding a needle in a Haystack, Beyond SGD, Analyser Wikipedia, Kolibree, Winning Kaggle "Dogs vs Cats"
• Compressed sensing fMRI using gradient-recalled echo and EPI sequences
• Extrinsic Methods for Coding and Dictionary Learning on Grassmann Manifolds
• Phase Retrieval for Sparse Signals: Uniqueness Conditions
• Sparse Coding and Dictionary Learning for Symmetric Positive Definite Matrices: A Kernel Approach - implementation -
• SparseFHT: A Fast Hadamard Transform for Signals with Sub-linear Sparsity in the Transform Domain - implementation -
• Properties of spatial coupling in compressed sensing / On Convergence of Approximate Message Passing
• Video Compressive Sensing for Dynamic MRI
• Sunday Morning Insight: A Compressive Sensing Approach to Quanta Image Sensor (QIS)
• CAI: Cable And Igor's Adventures in Matrix Factorization: A Tornado Through a Parking Lot
• The Graceful Rendez-Vous Pitch Maneuvers
• Remembering Columbia STS-107
• From Direct Imaging to Machine Learning … and more, in 15 minutes
• Nuit Blanche in Review (January 2014)
• Sparse Spikes Deconvolution with Continuous Basis-Pursuit
• Sparse Randomized Kaczmarz for Multiple Measurement Vectors
• GrAMPA: Generalized Approximate Message Passing for Analysis Compressive Sensing
• Nonlinear Basis Pursuit
• Blind Identification via Lifting
• Additions to the Advanced Matrix Factorization Jungle Page
• Highly Technical Aggregators - request -
• Nonlinear Compressive Sensing - request -
• Quantum Biosystems Provides Raw Data Access to New Sequencing Technology
• A Compressed Sensing Framework for Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting
• Matrix Factorization with Binary Components
• Sparse Packetized Predictive Control for Networked Control over Erasure Channels
• Sharp Phase Transition for Joint Sparse Recovery (MMV)
• Sparse Matrix Factorization: Simple rules for growing neural nets and Provable Bounds for Learning Some Deep Representations
• The Why and How of Nonnegative Matrix Factorization
• Far-field subwavelength imaging from a single broadband antenna in combined with strongly disordered medium
• Democratic Representations
• How Close is Compressive Sensing to Random Features with Random Kitchen Sinks?
• Binary Linear Classification and Feature Selection via Generalized Approximate Message Passing
• Dynamics and termination cost of spatially coupled mean-field models
• Frugal Streaming and Sparse Recovery with Very Sparse Compressed Counting
• Indiegogo: Atheer One: What it feels like to have superpowers!
• Around the blogs in 78 hours
• First French-German Mathematical Image Analysis Conference starting today
• CfP: Advances in sparse modeling and low-rank modeling for speech processing
• Novel meetings: Image processing for materials characterization (ICIP 2014, special session), Spin Glass and Beyond: An old tool for new problems, ITWIST'14 deadline extended
• Two PhD positions on compressive imaging for astronomical and biomedical applications, Edinburgh
• Saturday Morning Video: CMOS Image Sensors: Tech Transfer from Saturn to your Cell Phone
• Saturday Morning Video: Unraveling dolphin communication complexity: Past approaches and next steps
• Saturday Morning Videos: Analyzing Animal Vocal Sequences Investigative Workshop

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
This image was taken by Rear Hazcam: Left B (RHAZ_LEFT_B) onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 552 (2014-02-24 07:57:39 UTC).
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