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Scribe notes by Manos Theodosis Previous post: A blitz through statistical learning theory Next post: Unsupervised learning and generative models. See also all seminar posts and course webpage. Lecture video - Slides (pdf) - Slides (powerpoint with ink and animation) In this lecture, we talk about what neural networks end up learning (in terms of … Continue reading What do deep networks learn and when do they learn it
Previous post: ML theory with bad drawings Next post: What do neural networks learn and when do they learn it, see also all seminar posts and course webpage. Lecture video (starts in slide 2 since I hit record button 30 seconds too late - sorry!) - slides (pdf) - slides (Powerpoint with ink and animation) … Continue reading A blitz through classical statistical learning theory
(Next post: Lecture 1 - a blitz through classical statistical learning theory . See also all seminar posts) This semester I am teaching a seminar on the theory of machine learning. For the first lecture, I would like to talk about what is the theory of machine learning. I decided to write this (very rough!) … Continue reading ML Theory with bad drawings
For many of the famous open problems of theoretical computer science, most researchers agree on what the answer is, but the challenge is to prove it. Most complexity theorists (with few notable exceptions) believe that P≠NP, but we don't know how to prove it. Similarly, most people working on matrix multiplication believe that there is … Continue reading Obfuscation: The season 4 Finale
[Announcement from Jelani Nelson --Boaz]TL;DR: https://tinyurl.com/tcs-connections A task force has been convened by CATCS to investigate possibleapproaches to modifying aspects of the TCS community, especially ourpublishing culture, to enhance connections with other areas of CS andbe as welcoming as possible to a broad range of contributions withintheory. This committee will collect and synthesize feedback from … Continue reading Making TCS more connected / less insular
Galileo Galileo has many self-appointed intellectual heirs these days. Whether it's a claim that the election has been stolen, that COVID-19 is less fatal than the flu, that climate change or evolution are hoaxes, or that P=NP, we keep hearing from people considering themselves as bold truth-tellers railing against conventional wisdom. We are encouraged to … Continue reading On Galileo Galilei and “denialism” from elections to climate to COVID
[Guest post by Claire Vernade, Jessica Sorrell, Kamalika Chaudhuri, Lee Cohen, Mary Anne Smart, Michal Moshkovitz, and Ruth Urner. I am very happy about this initiative - mentoring and community is so important for success in science, and as I've written before, there is much work to do so women will have the same access … Continue reading Announcing the WiML-T Mentorship Program (guest post)
Guest post by Aviad Rubinstein and Matt Weinberg As explained in Boaz's previous posts [1] [2], the PhD admission process can be challenging for students who discover their passion for Theory of Computer Science late in their undergraduate studies. Discovering TCS earlier is especially challenging for students who aren't exposed to CS in high school, … Continue reading Updated Research Masters programs database by Aviad Rubinstein and Matt Weinberg
Election security has been studied for many years by computer scientists, but it is not as often that it attracts so much mainstream attention. I would never have expected to see my former Princeton colleague Andrew Appel on a Sean Hannity segment tweeted by President Trump. It may seem that even if it has partisan … Continue reading Election insecurity
(Guest post by Shir Cohen and Mouna Safir) The 34th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2020) was held on October 12-16, 2020, as a virtual conference. As such, the opportunity for community members to get to know each other in an informal environment was lacking. To address this need, we arranged two types of … Continue reading MoPS and Junior-Senior Meeting (DISC 2020)
