A Conversation with Terry Tempest Williams

A Scientific Tempest

Terry A. Loring

Consider the partition function S μ( ) associated in the theory of Rényi dimension to a finite Borel measure μ on Euclidean d-space. This partition function S μ( ) is the sum of the q-th powers of the measure applied to a partition of d-space into d-cubes of width . We further Guérin’s investigation of the relation between this partition function and the Lebesgue Lp norm (Lq norm) of the convol...

Philosophy, Art and Critique: A (short) conversation with the “other”

The article sketches a nexus between philosophy, art (poetry) and critique with a particular emphasis on the contribution of classical Muslim philosophers. At the same time, it demonstrates how luminaries such as Omar Khayyam and Ibn Sina, contributed to the renewal of philosophy as a freedom seeking exercise and as a means to pursue happiness through knowledge. In the second&nbs...

Michael Terry

The first topic I would like to explore is probabilistic reasoning with Bayesian nets. I see that reasoning under situations of uncertainty is a very important area of AI, and it is apparent that these techniques are the standard approach for effectively modeling this uncertainty. I am particularly interested in learning how to model complex relationships between variables in spite of redundant...

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