1. ## Some Naive Thoughts on Bitcoin Gambling: Hold or Sell?

I own some bitcoin and I intend to hold for a really long time. The total value of my crypto holdings is small enough that I would be OK with …

2. ## Modifying a Plustek 8100 to Scan Medium Format

The Plustek 8100 is a popular entry-level 35mm film scanner. It produces significantly higher resolution scans than any accessibly priced flatbed scanner but is limited to film formats smaller than …

3. ## A Class of Multivariate Functions that Behave Like Single-Letter Random Variables

Vector-encoders of a certain pretty restricted class happen to carry the same information content as univariate encoders. This turns out to be relevant to an aspect of time-expanded information bottlenecks …

4. ## Extracting Relevant Information over Many Trials

The information bottleneck scenario goes like this:

We are interested in a quantity $Y$ but only observe $X$ which we must process down to a rate

5. ## Hypersphere Cap Volumes in Matlab

The volume of a height-$h$ cap of a ball of radius $r$ in dimension $n$ can be derived:

\operatorname{vol}(\operatorname{cap}) = \frac{1 …

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