The Incorrect Assumption Behind Sweden's COVID-19 Strategy
Sweden has chosen a nearly unique path through the COVID-19 pandemic, one that is raising eyebrows around the world. The official story is that our...
Hybrid Generative-Discriminative Deep Models
Deep discriminative classifiers perform remarkably well on problems with a lot of labeled data. So-called deep generative models tend to excel when labeled training data is scarce. Can...
Variational Coin Toss
Variational inference is all the rage these days, with new interesting papers coming out almost daily. But diving straight into Huszár (2017) or Chen et al...
Bayesian Wi‑Fi: Materials & Methods
First of all, a big thanks for the great response to the previous post in this series. For a brief time it occupied the top spot in...
Bayesian Wi‑Fi
TLDR: Bayes rule is cool. Stable Wi‑Fi rules. The former can give us the latter.
Welcome to the Institute
Every year about two hundred scholars are welcomed to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, USA. Former faculty include Albert Einstein, John von Neumann...
