tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-211294452024-03-13T13:24:37.226-07:00my slice of pizzabooks, stories, poems, algorithms, math and computer science.
some art and anecdotes too.metoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192519900962182610noreply@blogger.comBlogger1171125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21129445.post-49273131161007873132021-05-06T06:46:00.001-07:002021-05-06T08:39:20.852-07:00Scaling Research Training<p>There is a lot of need in the Industry for engineers who know the art (edited to <i>craft</i>)of research (pursue and find the right literature and algorithms, understand prior art, adopt and modify for a specific context with domain awareness, interpret results, dive deeper into the unique insights), or researchers who can apply this art with engineering finesse. I wondered yesterday in a meeting if our technological lessons from COVID times have helped us identify a way to train many more in the ways of research, more than what we produce as PhDs in universities (the MS programs seem to train advanced engineers more than padawan researchers). <br /></p>metoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192519900962182610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21129445.post-12741070597350401052021-04-07T21:56:00.001-07:002021-04-07T21:56:18.144-07:00Postdoctoral openings at Amazon<p><a href="https://www.amazon.science/amazon-advertising-opens-applications-for-early-career-scientists" target="_blank">Amazon Advertising opens applications for early career scientists.</a> The new program, which offers full-time two-year positions, is aimed at recent PhD graduates who want to innovate, publish, and have their work impact millions of customers. The application deadline is May 14.</p>metoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192519900962182610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21129445.post-36807930877599624482021-04-05T06:05:00.005-07:002021-04-05T06:05:43.989-07:00Rembrandt and Shah Jahan<p>The <a href="https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/rembrandt_india/">Paul Getty Museum did an exhibition</a> juxtaposing Mughal art of Shah Jahan from 1600's with the sketches of Rembrandt 1000's of miles away inspired by the tales. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bQesEDJKiAE/YGrfXzwjOKI/AAAAAAAAB8Q/fqvMOQSpZlw_p1jRmlnDdhzYABzIGhsHACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/banner_x2048.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="2048" height="157" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bQesEDJKiAE/YGrfXzwjOKI/AAAAAAAAB8Q/fqvMOQSpZlw_p1jRmlnDdhzYABzIGhsHACLcBGAsYHQ/w419-h157/banner_x2048.jpg" width="419" /></a></div>A <a href="https://shop.getty.edu/products/rembrandt-and-the-inspiration-of-india-978-1606065525">book</a> goes with it. NY times could not resist making the connection in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/02/arts/design/shah-jahan-chitarman.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Art%20%20Design">a recent, beautiful examination of one miniature work on Shah Jahan</a>. <br />metoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192519900962182610noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21129445.post-42737146151414734242020-08-30T11:44:00.002-07:002020-08-30T11:44:17.049-07:00Burning Wood, Paper and Books<p>My childrens' book "<a href="https://www.emmemmpublishing.com/" target="_blank">Redwood Tree and its Friends</a>" was written from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5wySa6cvEs">China Grade Road </a>in the Big Basin State Park. </p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>This road was on fire
last week.</li><li>The park headquarters got gutted (the gift shop carried this book for sale). From <a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/08/29/exclusive-race-to-protect-big-basins-mother-father-of-the-forest-other-ancient-redwood-trees-after-inferno/" target="_blank">here:</a> " Six of seven employee-housing structures burned to the ground. Many wooden bridges over creeks are damaged. Wooden stairs and steps have been torched to coals. Ablutions blocks look like they’ve been bombed. Big trees are still thundering to the ground regularly on their own, and countless others are partially burned and will pose a deadly threat until they’re taken down. Small fires still burn in stumps and fallen trees. Steep hillsides are bare of vegetation and will be vulnerable to landslides. A utility building was cloven virtually in two by a felled fir. Power poles burned and lines are down into the park. <span style="color: red;">And an oft-photographed attraction, a sawn section of an ancient redwood, with tags pointing to growth rings from the tree’s birth in 544 AD log through the birth of Mohammed in 570 and the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, has vanished into blowing ash.</span>"</li><li>Neighbor Bradley's vineyard (<a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/wine/article/Top-Santa-Cruz-Mountains-winery-survives-fire-15508863.php" target="_blank">Big Basin Winery</a>) has been
impacted.</li></ul>I hope friends and colleagues remain protected from the fire
and its aftermath. My thoughts are with the Redwood tree friends who
have stood for many hundreds of years, and I hope will stand for many
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<b>Older:</b> Daddy working on a piece of art: 5 year old says, "You are mysterious!"<br />
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Daddy in COVID times: the little one says "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca" target="_blank">Chewie</a>!" No longer, now more like Picard. </div>
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metoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192519900962182610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21129445.post-14223540629660112462020-04-26T07:11:00.001-07:002020-04-27T08:43:35.554-07:00John Conway<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I managed to join a zoom meeting yesterday to honor John Conway. Peter Winkler paid tribute with a story about the brick-stacking puzzle (was interesting to hear "skintle" in context of puzzles). Roger Penrose paid tribute with tilings but also an old classic, Morley's Trisector Theorem. Others like Don Knuth appeared in the pre-meeting chat room, but I could not stay for the entire 3 hrs+ homage. Thanks to everyone! JHC, RIP. I was reminded that we are the math, friends and puzzles we leave behind.<br />
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Friends Ada and Phillip have created a short hardware tribute to JHC, video embedded below. <a href="https://blog.adafruit.com/category/adafruitchronicles/" target="_blank">Ada and Phillip,</a> thanks for repurposing your NYC manufacturing line to produce face shields and PPEs. Loved the <a href="https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/04/27/the-woman-who-discovered-the-first-coronavirus/" target="_blank">blog on the scientist who discovered the first coronavirus</a> and the handsanitizer made in Detroit.<br />
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metoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192519900962182610noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21129445.post-891834214589816572020-04-12T10:34:00.001-07:002020-04-12T10:34:19.624-07:00On Progress in Science<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Cyril Connolly said, "the greatest impediment to Science is the stroller in the hallway" (he said Art, but Science fits as Graham commented), but greater impediment is kids staying at home from school and greatest is kids staying at home doing Art.</div>
metoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192519900962182610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21129445.post-32525271597157805552020-03-14T15:19:00.001-07:002020-03-15T09:20:40.884-07:00COVID-19<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Here are questions in my mind:<br />
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<li>Spread of <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html" target="_blank">COVID-19 virus</a> under realistic models, where are we going to be in July 2020? <a href="https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/" target="_blank">Current stats here</a>.</li>
<li>Impact of COVID-19 virus on short and long term commerce.</li>
<li>Will the<a href="https://kmph.com/news/local/comcast-offering-free-internet-to-help-with-coronavirus-impacts-03-15-2020" target="_blank"> Internet Service Providers be able to scale</a> their provisioning for every kid and adult working and learning from home all day? </li>
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Today I went to a grocery store and saw they were discounting nonessential items in an attempt to monetize the foot traffic.<br />
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Thoughts on my mind are for victims.<br />
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PS: Here is the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/world/europe/italians-find-a-moment-of-joy-in-this-moment-of-anxiety.html?action=click&auth=login-email&login=email&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage" target="_blank">NYT article on what Italians can accomplish.</a><br />
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Finally, on Saturday afternoon, a nationwide round of applause broke out for the doctors on the medical front lines fighting the spread of Europe’s worst coronavirus outbreak."</div>
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metoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192519900962182610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21129445.post-17875133709316740782020-03-14T15:03:00.001-07:002020-03-14T15:03:49.100-07:00On Representations of Love<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The universal symbol for love should be the brain, not the heart. </div>
metoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192519900962182610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21129445.post-46419949813071606392019-12-24T10:05:00.001-08:002019-12-24T10:05:42.027-08:00On and Off Travel<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
On why I don't like to travel to Hawaii in winters: It is basically Seattle West.<br />
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On why mice and birds don't like Cats: bad reviews!<br />
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I saw the <a href="https://www.strangertickets.com/events/100269727/donald-byrd-s-the-harlem-nutcracker" target="_blank">Harlem Nutcracker</a> in Seattle. The story centers around an African American family in Harlem at Christmas, highlighting the centrality and significance of the grandmother in African-American culture, the resilience of Black American families, and Harlem as a center of the African Diaspora." It is nutcracker, not classical music but Jazz, not ballet but liberating, reverbating and pulsating dance. I didn't have tickets. I walked in. The ticket folks asked me to "hang around" and found a back stairs way for me to fill a seat in the rear. A man in front of me leaned back and gave me a program. No words needed. At the intermission, I paid for the ticket. When the show was over, I stood outside the theater. Well dressed people were leaving the performance, they walked by, smiled, offered a smart quip or two, and it was true NY in Seattle.<br />
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I am in travel through the incomparable New Mexico right now, but in the crisp winter mountain air are NY wafts.</div>
metoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192519900962182610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21129445.post-43491504008503958632019-11-29T07:21:00.000-08:002019-11-29T07:21:48.730-08:00Trumpet<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Someone asked me for my second favorite musical instrument: Trumpet. Hear it, and I challenge you to not raise your head and look beyond horizons. Put it into a soup of jazz and it makes you do all kinds of things.<br />
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metoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192519900962182610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21129445.post-51680445752173617082019-11-29T07:01:00.004-08:002019-11-29T07:01:57.619-08:00Quote of a Reading Thanksgiving Day<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
While work involves "reading", I didn't really read much this year. During this Thanksgiving break, I got a few free moments to read and a desultory path took me to Clive James's, “If you don’t know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do."</div>
metoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192519900962182610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21129445.post-25660274341581662852019-10-20T12:10:00.001-07:002019-10-20T12:10:31.539-07:00Chopsticks and Maleficiency<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Chopsticks are useful in ways imaginable, and yet to be imagined. A couple of days ago, I had a mice at the house. I set many different types of traps because I didnt know how many and what kinds of mice found their way in, and spent the sleepless night monitoring them, eventually capturing the singleton mice in the AM. Then I picked up the mousetrap with chopsticks, put it into a trash bag, and carried it to the trashcan using the chopsticks.<br />
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Talking of maleficence, I went to see the <a href="https://movies.disney.com/maleficent" target="_blank">film</a> with my kids. All the graphics and animation, color and 3D depth, thrown in to service a trite story line with a prince, princess, evil queen and repetitive soundtrack, the computer scientists behind the movie deserve better. </div>
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Someone inspired by my hair showed me this stone they brought back from Alaska and carried with them for years. And a colleague did the following.<br />
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metoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192519900962182610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21129445.post-48246565714575594192019-06-10T05:55:00.000-07:002019-06-10T05:55:26.213-07:00Long Term Research<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I was at the <a href="http://marketplaceinnovation.net/" target="_blank">marketplace innovations workshop</a> at Stanford. I enjoyed meeting the few faces I recognized and the multitude of new folks in the field. Thanks to the organizers for an excellent program. It was great to see folks attacking two-sided marketplaces in Uber/Lyft.<br />
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I left with a question. We have had a few iterations of spectrum auctions. These are supposed to be for pricing and using a common good to benefit the society. Do we know a definition of a good or successful auction? We know the auction has to satisfy some constraints for access to remote areas or signal a good price for the govt. We can prove some properties assuming the bidders know the longterm value of the spectrum. I am not convinced this is a good proxy for what benefits the society, and there should be independent metrics to evaluate whether a spectrum auction ultimately yielded longterm benefit, even empirically and retrospectively. </div>
metoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192519900962182610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21129445.post-25502104378322077222019-06-02T07:04:00.001-07:002019-06-10T05:12:05.246-07:00Crane has not left Seattle<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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</th><th><span style="font-weight: normal;">I don't have time to explore and discover untrodden things these days from my base in Mercer Island. A few weeks ago, discovered <a href="https://www.visittoppenish.com/blank" target="_blank">Toppenish murals</a>, a remarkable community effort to produce historic murals. Thanks to folks at <a href="http://craftedyakima.com/" target="_blank">Crafted</a> for letting me have the whole basement to frolic and dine, walkin. </span></th></tr>
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More local: The <a href="http://www.covalhouse.com/">coval house</a> of Mercer Island developed over a 100 years and recently demolished. "As research scientists, both Barbara and Myer possessed a native comfort with uncertainty, change and experimentation, and this proved to be a fertile environment for the artists and designers they engaged." Stunning woodwork.
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metoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192519900962182610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21129445.post-79022459568765303862018-11-24T04:29:00.001-08:002018-11-24T08:38:28.309-08:00Thanksgiving Hunger<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I was hungry. I came to NYC for Thanksgiving. I went for a walk and found a hole in the wall Japanese curry place which reminded me that good food can be cheap. Then I had a drink in a basement near a stone wall, 3 fireplaces and drinks served by folks with indeterminate life trajectories. Finally, I saw a $20 offoffbroadway work with super acting, sitting with a dozen old souls, the kind of place where the actor/writer/lead sets up the wine sourced by a family member vintner in the audience before the show begins. Also got glasses, met <a href="https://springbreakartfair.com/products/azikiwe-mohammed-james-simmons-barber" target="_blank">artists</a>, still read nytimes and fomented thoughts in folks.<br />
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metoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192519900962182610noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21129445.post-46652582659852753142018-09-30T12:46:00.000-07:002018-09-30T12:46:02.372-07:00ML Humor<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I got an Uber driver with 3 rides total in his profile. I realized I am the target of a MAB algorithm. </div>
metoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192519900962182610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21129445.post-27892899294848204882018-09-30T10:49:00.002-07:002018-09-30T16:55:26.495-07:00Kids, CA<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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</td><td>After a looong week, I came home, made myself some tea, looked around with no particular focus. I saw large green mangos on the counter. Still unfocused, I checked to see if they were organic, they were. I was about to put them away when my daughter, walking past me, said, "We bought them because they are grown in CA." That perked me up, and I remembered the <a href="https://www.specialtyproduce.com/produce/Keitt_Mangoes_9350.php" target="_blank">story of Keitt mangos</a>, the tropical fruit groomed in Florida and grown organically in CA, available in early Fall, instantly taking me from the fall shade of Mercer Island to the shadows of a mango tree on a sunny day in south India.</td></tr>
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metoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192519900962182610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21129445.post-51976852495755504342018-09-09T16:28:00.002-07:002018-09-09T16:28:41.645-07:00Amazon Scholars Program<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Amazon has an interesting way to have scholars (professors, experts) work flexibly with Amazon. Check with the program <a href="https://www.amazon.jobs/fr/landing_pages/scholars" target="_blank">here</a>. Obviously online advertising is of great interest too, including ML/AI, game theory, optimization, etc. </div>
metoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192519900962182610noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21129445.post-29323533908603456682018-08-11T10:48:00.000-07:002018-08-11T10:48:04.829-07:00Amazon Research Awards<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Amazon has a program for research awards. Check out the <a href="https://ara.amazon-ml.com/proposals/#apply" target="_blank">process</a>. The <a href="https://ara.amazon-ml.com/proposals/#focus-areas" target="_blank">focus areas</a> include online advertising for the first time and this should be interesting to researchers in mechanism design, optimization, game theory and multiagent systems, among other things. There is also a lot of interest in machine learning methods in general, and theory in the context of these focus areas. The deadline is Sept 15, 2018. Looking forward to submissions. </div>
metoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192519900962182610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21129445.post-902562873536328402018-07-24T06:34:00.000-07:002018-07-24T06:46:03.556-07:00Dear Data<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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</td><td>People who work with data often don't innovate on presenting it. Tufte's classic books presented new options for a generation, but maybe dated. I like a recent book called "<a href="http://www.dear-data.com/" target="_blank">Dear Data</a>". As authors say, "For our project Dear Data, each week throughout a year we collected and measured different types of personal data relating to our lives and then visualized it as a drawing on a postcard which we then sent as a type of “slow data” transmission of our personalities and our days to the other person." Beautifully communicative visualizations, <a href="https://medium.com/@giorgialupi/dear-data-has-been-acquired-by-moma-but-this-isnt-what-we-are-most-excited-about-bdaa3376d9db" target="_blank">acquired by MoMA</a>. </td></tr>
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metoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192519900962182610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21129445.post-91858713328356599992018-06-28T05:20:00.001-07:002018-06-28T05:20:38.116-07:00Walk NY Pride. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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</td><td>I walked through the sixth avenue, following the pride parade, with two ambient kids. I got a "Go Dad!" cheer from a tired group of paraders.<br />
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