Category: Academia

  • Neuro 140/240 – Lecture 1

    Lecture by Gabriel Kreiman at Harvard University. My personal takeaway on auditing the presented content. Course overview at https://klab.tch.harvard.edu/academia/classes/BAI/bai.html Biological and Artificial Intelligence Eventually, we will have ultraintelligent machines, that is machines that are more intelligent than humans. Going back to 1950, The Turing test denotes the first test to understand whether a machine is…

  • Geometry of Big Data – Monday session

    All talks are summarised in my words which may not accurately represent the authors’ opinion. The focus is on aspects I found interesting. Please refer to the authors’ work for more details. Session 1 – Learning DAGs The talk DAGs with NO TEARS: Continuous Optimization for Structure Learning is given by Pradeep Ravikumar. A draft…

  • Starting “Geometry and Learning from Data in 3D and Beyond” at IPAM, UCLA

    Today is the first day of my stay at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Over the coming weeks I wil try to discuss interesting talks here at the long course Geometry and Learning from Data in 3D and Beyond. Stay tuned for the first workshop…

  • A Manifesto to Cite 50/50

    I recently came across Women Also Know Stuff. I think it is a great initiative that helps to slowly combat systemic and structural inequality. They point to many female scientists in most social sciences and I wondered whether I could find a similar program in computer science. The answer was no because apparently we first…