Hi All,
just wanted to let you know that I compiled the course grades. I will report them to the midrasha, including exercise and scribe notes grades, and they will hopefully be available for you to see in a few days (or a bit more considering the holidays).
Happy new Jewish-calendar year,
Guy
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Grades
Monday, June 23, 2008
HABF - the end
I hope you enjoyed our course - I certainly did. But all good things come to an end and this course is no exception, even though there are many interesting results and topics that we haven't touched. If any of you would like to learn more, or even actually work in this area, feel free to talk to me about it.
Have a nice rest-of-your-life.
Guy
p.s.: Amir told me he is a bit behind on exercise grading, so final grades may take a while longer.
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Mistake in question 5
As Zvika Brakerski pointed out to me, in the definition of Entropy (Ent) in question 5, g should be squared everywhere. That is, $\mathbf{Ent}(g)=\mathbf{E}_x[g^2(x)\ln(g^2(x)] - \mathbf{E}_x[g^2(x)] \mathbf{E}_x[\ln(g^2(x)]$. I'm writing this from a computer that doesn't support mathml fonts, so I can only hope the formula shows correctly on computers which do support it.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Mistake in question 2
In home assignment #5, there is an error in question 2. Instead of the probability that $|f(x)|>t$, the bound should be on the probability that $|f(x)|>t\cdot||f||_2$. Thanks to Ori Brostovski for pointing that out.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Bonus question
I just added a 15 points bonus question (question no. 7) to the home assignment. If you have only 6 questions in your assignment please download it again to see the bonus question.
Monday, June 9, 2008
Exercise no. 5
A shiny new home assignment is finally online. Submission is due two weeks from now on June 23rd. Enjoy!
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Last class today!
Don't say "I didn't know".