Ottmar Schmidt

Valerie Schmidt

Introduction We have all heard the old joke of school being all about the three “R’s”, Reading ‘Ritin and ‘Rithmatik, but because of increasing class sizes and reported lack of instruction time, writing has been passed over for the more “important” subjects. The advent of computers and the increasing ease of word processing have given teachers the ultimate excuse, but most beginning composition...

SVP , Gram - Schmidt , LLL

Last time we defined the minimum distance λ1(L) of a lattice L, and showed that it is upper bounded by √ n · det(L)1/n (Minkowski’s theorem), but this bound is often very loose. Some natural computational questions are: given a lattice (specified by some arbitrary basis), can we compute its minimum distance? Can we find a vector that achieves this distance? Can we find good approximations to th...

Hilbert–Schmidt component analysis

We propose a feature extraction algorithm, based on the Hilbert–Schmidt independence criterion (HSIC) and the maximum dependence – minimum redundancy approach. Experiments with classification data sets demonstrate that suggested Hilbert–Schmidt component analysis (HSCA) algorithm in certain cases may be more efficient than other considered approaches.

Gerald D. Schmidt, helminthologist.

Myasthenia gravis and Schmidt syndrome.

We describe a 47 year old woman with a 30-year history of generalized myasthenia gravis whose condition had been stable and well controlled on a combination of pyridostigmine and ephedrine until she presented. At this time she gave a 2 month history of weakness, nausea, vomiting and more recently intermittent confusion. Investigations confirmed both primary hypothyroidism and primary adrenal fa...