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| bio | website | jameskoppel.com |
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| age | 21 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 10 months |
| seen | Jul 11 '11 at 21:55 | |
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I apply modern research in programming languages, static analysis, and software engineering to create practical software development tools. I studied Mathematics and Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, and am currently member of the 2012 class of Thiel Fellows.
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Jul 11 |
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Physical/pictoral interpretation of higher-order moments That relates the properties of moments to graphs of PDFs, but is not useful for visualizing computations done on moments. I'd like to be able to, for example, write Welford's algorithm (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…) on the board, and then draw a picture and say "This is $x_n-\overline{x_n}$" and have the equality become somewhat obvious. Also at that link is a streaming algorithm for the mean. It takes a few seconds to see why the formula works, but becomes immediately obvious if I draw it as a center of gravity problem. |
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Jul 11 |
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asked | Physical/pictoral interpretation of higher-order moments |
