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Mark Reid
Personal blog · mark.reid.name/blogmathdataprogramming
Mark Reid writes Inductio Ex Machina, a personal blog at mark.reid.name about math, data and programming. Since 2009, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “Warning High Dimensions Ahead”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link Mark Reid's blog for a post on gun deaths versus gun ownership. One comment also notes he made Annotatr, a site for commenting on scientific papers, with boscoh.com.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Warning High Dimensions Ahead3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-01-30
- Gun Deaths vs. Gun Ownership2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-08-14
What Hacker News says?
I also wrote a short blog post about this topic back in 2009: https://mark.reid.name/blog/warning-high-dimensions.html It great to see these interesting math facts continue to be discussed and presented in new ways.
Comment linking /blog/warning-high-dimensions.html
on “An n-ball Between n-balls”Submitted Online (Machine) learning in Clojure as a story · 34 points
HN discussionI wrote a very similar blog post a few years ago when I first encountered the same fact: http://mark.reid.name/iem/warning-high-dimensions.html Thanks to the comments, I learned this is a common warning, used in at least three textbooks.
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on “High-dimensional spheres are "spikey"”Submitted Short list of web-based prediction APIs as a story · 22 points
HN discussionI see. I hope you would forgive me for assuming something so extreme. I would be curious to see some statistics on quantifying of police aggression (however quantified) versus civilian armament as covariates wrt total gun violence. One of the marginals of such a distribution are documented here: http://mark.reid.name/blog/gun-deaths-vs-gun-ownership.html but this doesn't say anything about the police side of the sto…
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on “Ferguson or Iraq? Photos Unmask the Militarization of America's Police”Submitted Probability Estimation: An Introduction as a story · 17 points
HN discussionI haven't used Hugo but my entire site is generated with Hakyll: http://mark.reid.name/ . I've found it works well for a mixture of blogging and more static content.
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on “Jekyll Lambda – Minimal Theme for Jekyll”Submitted Minilight in Clojure as a story · 9 points
HN discussionReally nice presentation of divergences. I made a similar attempt (math + interactive JS visualizations) a long time ago for the Bregman divergences: https://mark.reid.name/blog/meet-the-bregman-divergences.htm... These visualizations are much nicer than mine though. Curious fact, the Bregman divergences are a different class of divergences to the f-divergences that intersect at the KL divergence. That is, KL is (es…
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on “Entropy of a Mixture”Submitted The Mathematical Grue as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI also did something similar when I switched my site to Jekyll. The usual blog content + header + sidebar format seemed unnecessary for me so I started by focusing on the content and building up from there: http://mark.reid.name/info/site.html I currently use justified alignment, but given the mounting evidence against it I might switch to ragged right next time I'm playing with the CSS.
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on “A Cleaner, Simpler Blog Page”Submitted Warning High Dimensions Ahead as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI should clarify that I am only a user - the site was made by http://mark.reid.name and http://boscoh.com
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on “Annotatr - scientific paper commenting done right”Submitted Gun Deaths vs. Gun Ownership as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIt makes me glad to see that Aleph (and ILP more generally) are still being used. It's a really powerful and interpretable way of constructing code from examples. I made a few contributions to Aleph as part of my PhD on doing transfer learning in ILP and really enjoyed working in Prolog. https://mark.reid.name/bits/pubs/unsw07.pdf
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on “Prolog for Data Science”Submitted Behold Jensen's inequality as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis likelihood ratio approach highlights the fact that KL divergence is a member of the family of Csiszár F-divergences. These are measures of "distance" between distributions of the form E_Q[ F(p(x)/q(x)) ] where F is any convex function with F(1) = 0. This is kind of a generalization of log-likelihood where F kind of "weights" the badness of ratios different to 1. When F is -log you get KL divergence. Another cur…
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on “Kullback–Leibler Divergence”Submitted Meet the Bregman Divergences(2013) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Switching from Jekyll to Hakyll as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The compression lemma as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Warning High Dimensions Ahead as a story · 1 points
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