Cameron GordonMar 184 minStorage as a Communication Problem In the novel Death's End author Liu Cixin describes the difficulty of storing information that will last for a hundred million years. USB...
Cameron GordonMar 52 minWhere's Wally and a Swiss Cheese View of Deep LearningOne of the ways I like to look at Deep Neural Networks is as a series of filters. A filter removes some unwanted components from a signal...
Cameron GordonFeb 133 minWhy Does Australia Still Use Fixed-Order Ballots?One of the most bizarre and archaic aspects of the Australian electoral system is ballot paper ordering. From the AEC website: The...
Cameron GordonOct 13, 20215 minThe Information Bottleneck Principle and Corporate StructureOver the summer I completed one final research project to finish my Master's. My goal was to understand the information bottleneck...
Cameron GordonOct 1, 20213 minHow Much Information Can a Small Image Contain? The CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100 (Canadian Institute For Advanced Research) are two classic datasets for training and testing image recognition...
Cameron GordonJul 17, 20212 minPlaying the Numbers With InterviewsOn Friday I was invited to give a short presentation to UN Youth Australia on getting graduate positions. The slides are posted below....
Cameron GordonJul 8, 20212 minTelephone and the Data Processing Inequality A basic rule of mathematics is that it should seek to illuminate, not obscure. A complicated concept should be understandable by a...
Cameron GordonDec 19, 20203 minArts and ScienceLike many, I was disappointed with the Australian Government's decision to double tuition fees for students taking courses in humanities,...
Cameron GordonDec 12, 20203 minVarious Projects: Vehicle Routing, Music Composition, and Deep Reinforcement Learning for POMDPs I've decided to a release a few projects that I've worked on over the last year and a half. Most of these are better described as...
Cameron GordonMar 1, 20203 minUsing Infectious Disease Modelling To Understand Public Policy SpreadIn January I attended a course on infectious disease modelling as part of the AMSI Summer School. The rapid spread of COVID-19 made this...
Cameron GordonFeb 20, 20204 minCan an Economy Feel Joy?In a previous post, I received a comment which mentioned an interesting thought experiment: The China Brain. The idea goes as follows -...
Cameron GordonFeb 20, 20204 minThe Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Learning in Decision Making Systems In The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences Eugene Wigner declared 'The miracle of the appropriateness of...
Cameron GordonJan 24, 20204 minAn Algorithmic View of LawIn Western Australia it an offence to possess more than 50kg of potatoes, unless you are a member of the Potato Corporation. Challenging...
Cameron GordonDec 26, 20194 minEnd of 2019 Book List I've always liked book lists. That doesn't mean I can write them: advertising doesn't come naturally to me, and summaries are a lousy...
Cameron GordonDec 14, 20193 minWhat can we learn from slime mould?A slime mould is an amorphous blob of unthinking biological material, capable of extraordinary acts of creative planning and navigation....
Cameron GordonDec 6, 20194 minArtificial EconomicsThose that know me will know that I've run a couple blogs over the years - this marks the first time I've decided to do so under my own...