Bibliographical Notes on Well Known Plants. I

Bibliographical Notes on Tree-structured classifiers

The main source for the lecture on trees is Chapter 8, sections 1 to 4 inclusive, of the textbook [5]. CART is described in the lovely book by Breiman, Friedman, Olshen and Stone [1], which contains an extensive discussion of all the main points we touched during the lecture. A machine-learning point of view is contained in Chapter 3 of Mitchell’s book [8], which is a good reference for ID3 and...

Notes on well-balanced orientations

This note contains some remarks on the well-balanced orientation theorem of Nash-Williams [10]. He announced in [11] an extension of his theorem. We present a proof for a generalization of this extension. We show some new consequences of Nash-Williams’ odd vertex pairing theorem. A slight generalization of a theorem of Lovász [7] will also be proved.

Notes on Sandflies. Part I

I. Notes on Structured Programming

These notes have the status of "Letters written to myself": I wrote them down because, without doing so, I found myself repeating the same arguments over and over again. When reading what I had written, I was not always too satisfied. For one thing, I felt that they suffered from a marked verbosity. Yet I do not try to condense them (now), firstly because that would introduce another delay and ...

Epilepsy...The well-known; yet a lot to be known..

Historically, demonic possession and act of spirits were suspected to explain the strange symptoms of epilepsy. Even nowadays, not all symptoms of epilepsy are clear. Some epileptic semiology's are very bizarre reflecting the little we know about human brain. Focal non motor seizures are subjective experiences. Frontal hyper motor seizures can be wrongly diagnosed as agitations. Absence attacks...