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ISIT 2009 : more talks
This is the second post on talks at ISIT — it’s been going a bit more slowly because of extra travel. Mismatched Estimation and Relative Entropy Sergio Verdú This talk looked at how to characterize the...
View ArticleNeat LaTeX Symbol-finding program
Via MetaFilter, I learned of Detexify, which is a neat widget for finding pesky symbols in LaTeX. I tried it out and it’s not too bad. It also tells you what package to add for more esoteric symbols....
View ArticleThe Electric Company is on Hulu
I guess I’m nostalgic for old educational TV shows, but The Electric Company, which I barely remember, is (partially) on Hulu now. The commercial interruptions are new, however. It’s not on the PBS...
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ISIT 2009 : talks part three
This is the penultimate post on papers I saw at ISIT 2009 that I thought were interesting and on which I took some notes. I think I’m getting lazier and lazier with the note taking — I went to lots...
View ArticleReads from the first half of 2009
Some reads from the first half of this year, in no particular order… American Karma (Sunil Bhatia) — A qualitative study of a professional South Asian community in New England. Bhatia explores issues...
View Articlecopyright and the ex-avant-garde
Kyle Gann had a rather disturbing revelation about how copyright intersects with scholarship, and in particular scholarship about experimental music: … you are no longer allowed to quote texts that are...
View ArticleF-22s and the Indian Menace
I learned today that Sen. John Cornyn’s (R-Texas) believes we are in danger from India… We’re fighting — we have graver threats and greater threats than that: From a rising India, with increased...
View ArticleIn Memoriam Dorothy Vickers-Shelley
I learned today that my grade school librarian, Dorothy Vickers-Shelley, passed away last week. It’s difficult for me to explain how much she affected my life and the lives of all the children she...
View ArticleUpdated LaTeX Poster Package
I updated the poster package that I had written for doing large-format conference posters in LaTeX. The updated package uses PGF and TikZ, which is a way of making beautiful figures in LaTeX. I’ve been...
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