A Gentle View of Organics

A gentle introduction to

The PythonTEX package allows authors to combine computational and typesetting tasks by embedding Python code in TEX documents. This package allows access to many powerful Python modules, providing support for such things as symbolic mathematics, plotting, arbitrary precision numerical calculations, and networking. Python’s intuitive syntax, popularity, and extensibility along with TEX’s formatt...

Cryptographic Voting - A Gentle Introduction

These lecture notes survey some of the main ideas and techniques used in cryptographic voting systems. The write-up is geared towards readers with little knowledge of cryptography and it focuses on the broad principles that guide the design and analysis of cryptographic systems, especially the need for properly designed security models. We use a system proposed by Fujioka, Okamoto and Ohta as s...

A Gentle Introduction to Tensors

Expectation Maximization: a Gentle Introduction

This tutorial was basically written for students/researchers who want to get into first touch with the Expectation Maximization (EM) Algorithm. The main motivation for writing this tutorial was the fact that I did not find any text that fitted my needs. I started with the great book “Artificial Intelligence: A modern Approach”of Russel and Norvig [6], which provides lots of intuition, but I was...

A Gentle Introduction to Globus

As computers become better connected across the globe, opportunities to create new programs utilizing geographically distant resources increase. New applications not possible without this computational grid include distributed supercomputing and intelligent sensing applications. However, di culties implementing this new class of applications exist: the computers on a grid are unreliably connect...