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Nick Alger
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Researcher at the Oden Institute (UT Austin) working on numerical methods for PDE-constrained optimization and inverse problems

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Why is Newton's method not widely used in machine learning?
Dec 30, 2016
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Frequentist statistics references for someone well versed in modern probability theory
Sep 27, 2012
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Why use gradient descent with neural networks?
Nov 13, 2015
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Maximum entropy priors in infinite dimensional spaces
Oct 11, 2012
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Sampling from elliptic pde solution in high dimensions
Nov 28, 2012
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Sampling scheme based on newton's method - what is it called?
Nov 15, 2014
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Intuitively, what is the difference between Eigendecomposition and Singular Value Decomposition?
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Motivation for Ramanujan's mysterious $\pi$ formula
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What are some examples of a mathematical result being counterintuitive?
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What is the intuition behind Chebyshev's Inequality in Measure Theory
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Normalizable wavefunction that does not vanish at infinity

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