DSC Weekly Digest 04 Jan 2022: Can Machine Learning Do Symbolic Manipulation?
Can Machine Learning Do Symbolic Manipulation? I spent some time over the holidays engaged in a fascinating online conversation. The gist of it was a variation of a...
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DSC Weekly Digest 28 December 2021: An Auld Lang Syne (and Cosyne Too)
The last week of the year has traditionally been about reflections and planning, taking stock of the old (or auld), and preparing for the changes of the new. I’ve a...
Could we Live in a Universe with Fewer than Three Dimensions?
No, I am not a flat-earther. Quite the contrary, the ideas suggested here assume advanced scientific knowledge, such as quantum physics. The famous Cambridge-based physic...
DSC Weekly Digest 7 December 2021: Unevenly Distributed Futures
An Unevenly Distributed Future Once again, the specter of a new n-Cov-2 variant, in this case, omicron, is making its way around the world, like some grim ghost of Christ...
Machine Learning Inference for Point Processes: A General, Simple Introduction with Simulations
In part 1 here, we introduced an original class of point processes, generalizing the Poisson process which is a limiting case, in a simple and intuitive way. We started ...
DSC Weekly Digest 30 November 2021: Season's Greetings
The harvest festival goes back millennia, almost to the dawn of agriculture itself. It is held after the barley and corn and rice have been brought in from the fields, af...
A Gentle, Original Approach to Stochastic Point Processes
Update: Part 2 of this article is now available, here. In this article, original stochastic processes are introduced. They may constitute one of the simplest examples a...
DSC Weekly Digest 16 Nov 2021: The Importance of Dimensional Modeling
The Importance of Dimensional Modeling When I was in high school, I had a superb chemistry teacher, something I, unfortunately, failed to appreciate until long after I we...
A New Class of Non-standard Probability Distributions
The probability distributions introduced in this article generalize what is known as infinite convolutions of centered Bernoulli or Rademacher distributions. Some of them...
DSC Weekly Digest 9 November 2021: Standardizing the Metaverse
In the DSC November 2 editorial, I posed a question I’ve wondered about for a while. Why is it so hard to create a shared-reality world, whether it’s called V...