Often in machine learning, proofs of convergence of learning algorithms assume that the data distribtuion is static over the course of learning. However, work on Curriculum Learning [1] has shown that in practice, altering the data distribution over the course of learning can improve results, at least in some cases. Specifically, starting with easier examples first and then progressing to harde...

Mathematical prose relies heavily on symbols, but it is important not to use symbols to excess. Effective communication requires complete, grammatically correct sentences. Symbolism should never replace sentences. Mathematical symbols are used to represent complex formulae or longwinded phrases which appear repeatedly in the text. By introducing a new symbol, the author avoids constantly rewrit...

On an atomic Read-Modify-Write (RMW) object one can read the complete old contents s of the object and simultaneously update its contents as a function δ(s) of the old contents in a single, indivisible, atomic operation. It is known that these RMW objects do not have a wait-free implementation in the asynchronous PRAM model—in which processors can only communicate with each other through atomic...