Geelon So
@GeelonSo
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a quick thread on what the @penn mathematics department is doing starting this fall to improve the student experience in calculus courses... 1/
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Why is it that we can recognize objects from line drawings, even though they don't exist in the real world? A fascinating paper by Aaron Hertzmann hypothesizes that we perceive line drawings as if they were approximate, realistic renderings of 3D scenes. https://t.co/Ongrs3XOSX
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You thought Sunday was devoid of excitement? Not so much. Thomas Steinke (@shortstein) and Lydia Zakynthinou (@zakynthinou) just put up on #arXiv a new preprint aiming to understand better #generalization in #ML, and that looks quite interesting: https://t.co/10Hltc5lDj
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Astonishing table of dualities from Yoshihiro Maruyama's Ph.D. thesis - https://t.co/xz7a67uD6R. I wish there was a single place I could learn all the details of these.
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https://t.co/8wx8dSbc90 Stripes on Zebras are adversarial attacks to the fly low-res vision system, it turns out!
nytimes.com
If you spend time around horses or flies, you might want to invest in some zebra print.
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I enjoy looking at professors CVs to be amazed at what they've achieved. Sometimes, it's nice to know I'm on the right track:
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"More people have been to Russia than I have."
More than 10 years in the making... my paper on "Escher sentences", aka comparative illusions, is now online at Journal of Semantics (w @ColinPhillips2, R. Pancheva and V. Hacquard):
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