A friend of mine shared a link to an article about why children have a hard time learning to spell. They argue that we are teaching spelling incorrectly. We should be teaching how words are formed and the etymology not how to sound the word out to spell it. They claim that about “12% of words… Continue reading Spelling
Category: other blogs
This World Exists Blog
I found an amazing blog This World Exists. Its essentially a photo blog of a bunch of really awesome places to travel to. Really makes me want to travel even more than I did before!
GMU MAS/MRS reading group
I think I should start a MAS/MRS reading group. CMU had/has a nice website detailing their MAS/MRS reading group. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mberna/mrrg/ It looks like it would have been really fun to have gone to those. So, might as well have it at GMU!
Adaptive Data Analysis
Google Research recently wrote a piece The reusable holdout: Preserving validity in adaptive data analysis (so I’m not go to write much). It details the problem with statistics generated when the machine learning methods are adapted to the data through data analysis and repeated trials on the same hold out data. This is a problem that is… Continue reading Adaptive Data Analysis
Theory blog
Goedel’s Lost Letter blog written by Richard Lipton at Georgia Tech is very interesting and is, as the title suggests, on theory of computation and other interesting ideas.