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A nice formula for the volume of an L_p ball
I recently came across this paper: Volumes of Generalized Unit Balls Xianfu Wang Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 78, No. 5 (Dec., 2005), pp. 390-395 which has nice formula for a “generalized unit ball” in :...
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Cosma has posted a short proof of an ergodic theorem, which makes for some light weekend reading…
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ISIT 2010 : Abbas El Gamal and Te Sun Han
I seem to have gotten all behind on wrapping up the ISIT blogging, so the remainder may be more compressed takes on things. This is not in the compressed sensing world, where the signals are sparse and...
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ISIT 2010 : a few more talks
I think I lack the willpower to write up more notes on talks, and there are other things I’d like to blog about, but here are one or two sentences on some other talks that I found interesting… I also...
View ArticleSome interesting links
I owe Lav a response about birthdays, but in lieu of that, here are some links. Via Matt Pugh, a grad student here, when intuition and math probably look wrong. Via my father, what poetry and...
View ArticleDavid Blackwell has passed away
Via Inherent Uncertainty I learned that David Blackwell passed away on July 8th. Prof. Blackwell’s original paper (with Leo Breiman and Aram Thomasian) on the arbitrarily varying channel was an...
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