a method to solve constrained optimization problems

What is time? Does the past still exist? How did the universe begin and how will it end? Do particles think? Was the universe made for us? Why doesn’t anyone ever get younger? Has physics ruled out free will? Will we ever have a theory of everything? According…

After a disappointing research experience, this scientist clarified what inspired her

Dreams are so personal, subjective and fleeting, they might seem impossible to study directly and with scientific objectivity. But in recent decades, laboratories around the world have developed sophisticated techniques for getting into the minds of people…

“a man doesn’t require things more than his basic needs.”

Jiamin Hou, Zachary (Zack) Slepian and Robert (Bob) Cahn talk about their very interesting, recent paper looking for parity violation in the large scale structure. Cutting to the chase, they find evidence for it at ~7σ. They also do various systematic tests…

Scientific Reports - Emergence of life in an inflationary universe

scientific article, published 1953

This talk was originally given to an audience of school students aged 16-17 as part of a mathematics enrichment event at the University of Cambridge. Recorded 27 June 2014.

Professor David Tong describes Einstein’s theory of relativity, and examines what…

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During the 2022 Abel lectures Jim Simons had a conversation with Nils A. Baas and Nicolai Tangen. The lectures were held at The University of Oslo, May 25th, in connection with the 2022 Abel Prize Week celebrations.

Jim Simons is an American mathematician…

Video describing our NeurIPS'21 paper: "MICo: Improved representations via sampling-based state similarity for Markov decision processes" by me, Tyler Kastner, Prakash Panangaden, and Mark Rowland:

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.08229
Blog: https://psc…

Infinite sums are among the most underrated yet powerful concepts in mathematics, capable of linking concepts across math’s vast web.

MIT 18.S096 Topics in Mathematics with Applications in Finance, Fall 2013
View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/18-S096F13
Instructor: Peter Kempthorne

This is the first of three lectures introducing the topic of time series analysis, describing stochastic…

type of differential equation

There are 48 YouTube videos in my Linear Algebra for Machine Learning course, each of which is detailed in this blog post.