Storage as a Communication Problem
In the novel Death's End author Liu Cixin describes the difficulty of storing information that will last for a hundred million years. USB...
Cameron Gordon
Cameron Gordon
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Where's Wally and a Swiss Cheese View of Deep Learning
One of the ways I like to look at Deep Neural Networks is as a series of filters. A filter removes some unwanted components from a signal...
Why Does Australia Still Use Fixed-Order Ballots?
One of the most bizarre and archaic aspects of the Australian electoral system is ballot paper ordering. From the AEC website: The...
The Information Bottleneck Principle and Corporate Structure
Over the summer I completed one final research project to finish my Master's. My goal was to understand the information bottleneck...
How Much Information Can a Small Image Contain?
The CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100 (Canadian Institute For Advanced Research) are two classic datasets for training and testing image recognition...
Playing the Numbers With Interviews
On Friday I was invited to give a short presentation to UN Youth Australia on getting graduate positions. The slides are posted below....
Telephone and the Data Processing Inequality
A basic rule of mathematics is that it should seek to illuminate, not obscure. A complicated concept should be understandable by a...
Various Projects: Vehicle Routing, Music Composition, and Deep Reinforcement Learning for POMDPs
I've decided to a release a few projects that I've worked on over the last year and a half. Most of these are better described as...