international researchers in both industry and academia to study, for example, impulse response and transfer-function of multimode fibers, frequency-correlation properties of optical-waveguide intensity patterns, techniques for measuring fiber dispersion properties and transfer-functions, and mode-dependent ...
for example, discusses thePower of Transgressive Learningin an excellent post. My own interest in the term, however, came from reflecting on educational work I am currently involved in on spatial fluency and agency in learning and from thinking about how the education system we have is one buil...
What we can see from the last week is this: more guns in the hands of more people means more people get shot. Shot because of poor impulse control–and easy access to guns. Shot because of inadequate (or no) training regarding when and how to shoot–and the ease with which people are...
I leave for Europe on Tuesday and when I come back I have about three weeks before I fly to California. My first impulse is to cram as much as possible into that time period, but I have to remind myself to put me first. I think that's what a lot of what the past few months ...
one’s research is only as a good as one’s proposal. An ill-conceived proposal dooms the project even if it somehow gets through the Thesis Supervisory Committee. A high quality proposal, on the other hand, not only promises success for the project, but also impresses your Thesis Committee...
operator is not differentiable when for some . However this happens also for ReLU and with zero probability at any given point in training, so we consider it a harmless approximation. Next Gumbel Softmax is simply adding an i.i.d. Gumbel noise to each ...
• I hereby proclaim that the name Karen will no longer be used as a pejorative term. My mom’s name is Karen, so when you insult the name, you’re insulting my mother. Those of you who resist will perish with Karen on your lips and the smell of raw liver in your nose. • ...
Then she put him to her bosom again, ashamed almost of her impulse to give him back again whence he came. “If he lives,” she thought to herself, “what will become of him—what will he be?” Her heart was anxious. “I will call him Paul,” she said suddenly; she knew not ...
bank lending policies, urban planning program, China has always been mentally providers, low-level government officials and economists, financiers and other masterpieces to feel our way across the river, performance style, outstanding short-term effect is completed, autocorrelation contradictions, full of...
On an impulse and understanding that the odds were slim, Karen called the Pine Inn to ask if the Ocean View King, Room 12, was available. It was the room we wanted fifty years ago, but couldn’t afford. Fortunately, under very unfortunate circumstances, it was. With all its charm and...