Reflecting and Restarting ← Inductio Ex Machina ← Mark Reid
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Reflecting and Restarting
The date of my last blog post — the 30th of August, 2013 — has been increasingly tormenting me (2013!) so I’ve decided that the start of the new year is as good a time as any to start writing here again.
I’m not entirely sure why blogging fell by the wayside in 2014. As my news feed
Amongst all that, I’ve been working with a number of collaborators on some fascinating connections via convex duality between fast rates for online learning, mirror descent, risk measures, prediction markets, and graphical models. You can grab preprints of some of this stuff on the arXiv ( and ).
I’ve been meaning to write up some overviews of this most recent work for ages so expect some posts on risk measures and entropic duals very soon.
January 5, 2015 Canberra, Australia