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Sounds like you’ve not been paying enough attention to opportunities for ninja in the modern academic world.
Thing that would make me happy in 2025: @RockstarGames announces a Red Dead spinoff set in Australia. With inspiration from the stories of Ned Kelly, Truganini, the man from Snowy River, On our Selection, the Eureka Stockade, … there’s plenty of source material!
Of course this works until you have an asymmetry which means your chain isn’t reversible… then you have to think a bit more to describe equilibrium…
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I’m unsurprised. My general take is that these methods are only worth it for high dimensional equations, where there are few classical competitors.
This is important as there's no guarantee that the transition matrix is diagonalizable (a usual assumption for power iteration). That's where the slightly weird Hilbert metric allows you to say things very precisely, even without that assumption!
To be careful, you need to say what metric it's a contraction in - arxiv.org/abs/2309.02413
Very nice. Slight typo on p20 (C_P vs C_T).
If I was to argue, I'd point out that in practice we often use falsifiable models (cf Box's adage) so something beyond simple falsifiability is needed as a criterion.
A full Bayesian analysis would also include an assessment of the reliability of SBF as a literary critic…
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5-year positions for early career researchers (here = PhD viva after 1st Aug 2022) in Theoretical Physics (or Mathematics, or Archaeology, Classics, Modern Languages, Politics -- 1 for each subject).
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Tomorrow, Thurs 25, 11:30 a.m. CEST — 1 p.m. CEST, presenting our work at #ICML2024,
"Generalization Error of Graph Neural Networks in the Mean-field Regime"
Location: Hall C 4-9, Poster 508,
