ISIT highlights request
ISIT 2013 is over, and there were lots of good talks. Just as a few quick impressions — the conference felt a bit more fragmented to me, topic-wise. I almost didn’t see many of the coding theorists...
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a cute paper: finding a most biased coin with fewest flips
I saw this paper on ArXiV a while back and figured it would be a fun read, and it was. Post-ISIT blogging may have to wait for another day or two. Finding a most biased coin with fewest flips...
View ArticleDe-anonymized reviewers in discussion
One big difference between reviewing for conferences like NIPS/ICML and ISIT is that there is a “discussion” period between the reviewers and the Area Chair. These discussions are not anonymized, so...
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David McAllester, my department chair at TTI, has a started a new blog. I thought it was pretty well known that people are fairly unique by ZIP code, but Forbes has an article about it now (h/t Raj)....
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ISIT Blogging, part 1
Here are my much-belated post-ISIT notes. I didn’t do as good a job of taking notes this year, so my points may be a bit cursory. Also, the offer for guest posts is still open! On a related note the...
View ArticleISIT Plenary Lectures on ITSOC website
I added the slides from the ISIT plenaries to the ITSOC website. We’re still not sure when the video will arrive — figuring out media storage is one of the goals of the online committee (as reported to...
View ArticleUCI Repository Citation Change
When making an editing pass over a bibliography today, I noticed that the citation for the UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository has changed. It used to be @misc{Bache+Lichman:2013 , author = "A....
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ISIT Blogging, part 2
Logarithmic Sobolev inequalities and strong data processing theorems for discrete channels Maxim Raginsky (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Max talked about how the strong data...
View ArticleISIT 2013: Read that other post
Max has blogged about the plenary lectures given by Katalin Marton (the Shannon Lecture) and Gabor Lugosi. It’s a much nicer job than I could do, naturally.
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ISIT Blogging, part 3
I’ll round out the end of my ISIT blogging with very brief takes on a few more papers. I took it pretty casually this year in terms of note taking, and while I attended many more talks, my notes for...
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