Miscellaneous Impressions for Concrete

Building Bowls for Miscellaneous Media

The features we present of the augmented bowl have been designed to exploit our commonsense understandings and everyday uses of container-like objects. As we’ll explain, in choosing the features, we’ve attempted to build on the ways in which physical content can be casually added to or retrieved from a bowl with little to no thought. We’ve also tried to capture the way bowls loosely contain the...

7 Notes for Miscellaneous Lectures

Here I share a few notes I used in various course lectures, talks, etc. Some may be just calculations that in the textbooks are more complicated, scattered, or less specific; others may be simple observations I found useful or curious. 1 Nemirovski Estimate of Mean of Arbitrary Distributions with Bounded Variance The popular Chernoff bounds assume severe restrictions on distribution: it must be...

Miscellaneous HOL

Miscellaneous HOL

Miscellaneous HOL