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| | | | | We assume the reader is familiar with the concepts of determinism and finite automata, or has read the corresponding primer on this blog. The Mother of All Computers Last time we saw some models for computation, and saw in turn how limited they were. Now, we open Pandrora's hard drive: Definition: A Turing machineis a... | |
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| | | | | With Alexandros Eskenazis we posted a paper on arxiv "Learning low-degree functions from a logarithmic number of random queries" exponentially improving randomized query complexity for low degree functions. Perhaps a very basic question one asks in learning theory is as follows: there is an unknown function $latex f : \{-1,1\}^{n} \to \mathbb{R}$, and we are... | |
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| | | | | Decidability Versus Efficiency In the early days of computing theory, the important questions were primarily about decidability. What sorts of problems are beyond the power of a Turing machine to solve? As we saw in our last primer on Turing machines, the halting problem is such an example: it can never be solved a finite amount of time by a Turing machine. However, more recently (in the past half-century) the focus of computing theory has shifted away from possibility in favor of determining feasibility. | |
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| | | Exercise 1.Solve Exercise 44 in Chapter 1 of the book. Exercise 2.Solve Exercise 3 in Chapter 1 of the book. Exercise 3.Solve Exercise 39 in Chapter 1 of the book. Exercise 4.The heat kernel on $latex \mathbb{S}^1$ is given by $latex p(t,y) =\frac{1}{2\pi}\sum_{m \in \mathbb{Z}} e^{-m^2 t} e^{im y} =\frac{1}{\sqrt{4\pi t}} \sum_{k \in \mathbb{Z}} e^{-\frac{(y... | ||