A Boy's Exposition

A minimalist’s exposition of EM

A Visit to the Tsukuba Science Exposition

Tsukuba Expo ‘85 is huge, interesting, and fun. The Japanese pavilions are plush and well-organized, and contain some impressive artificial intelligence demonstrations. The U.S. pavilion is an embarrassment. Tsukuba Expo ‘85 opened on March 17,1985, to enormous publicity. The New York Times reported that “the budget for the fair is more than $2 billion, and individual companies have spent large...

A Graphical Exposition of the Ordered Probit

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Randomness Extractors – An Exposition

Randomness is crucial to computer science, both in theory and applications. In complexity theory, randomness augments computers to offer more powerful models. In cryptography, randomness is essential for seed generation, where the computational model used is generally probabilistic. However, ideal randomness, which is usually assumed to be available in computer science theory and applications, ...

Mammalian Parasitic Vaccine: A Consolidated Exposition

Parasites are highly prevalent in livestock worldwide and infect over one fourth of the human population also. Parasites are successful in evading host immune responses, and vaccination can prove to be an effective way to control them. However, currently very few vaccines are available against parasitic infection. Two important limitations in the emergence of effective parasitic vaccines are in...