Cameron Gordon
Storage 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...
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Cameron Gordon
- Mar 5
- 2 min
Where's Wally and a Swiss Cheese View of Deep Learning
One 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...
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Cameron Gordon
- Feb 13
- 3 min
Why 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...
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Cameron Gordon
- Oct 13, 2021
- 5 min
The Information Bottleneck Principle and Corporate Structure
Over the summer I completed one final research project to finish my Master's. My goal was to understand the information bottleneck...
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Cameron Gordon
- Oct 1, 2021
- 3 min
How 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...
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Cameron Gordon
- Jul 17, 2021
- 2 min
Playing the Numbers With Interviews
On Friday I was invited to give a short presentation to UN Youth Australia on getting graduate positions. The slides are posted below....
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Cameron Gordon
- Jul 8, 2021
- 2 min
Telephone 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...
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Cameron Gordon
- Dec 19, 2020
- 3 min
Arts and Science
Like many, I was disappointed with the Australian Government's decision to double tuition fees for students taking courses in humanities,...
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Cameron Gordon
- Dec 12, 2020
- 3 min
Various 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...
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Cameron Gordon
- Mar 1, 2020
- 3 min
Using Infectious Disease Modelling To Understand Public Policy Spread
In January I attended a course on infectious disease modelling as part of the AMSI Summer School. The rapid spread of COVID-19 made this...
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Cameron Gordon
- Feb 20, 2020
- 4 min
Can 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 -...
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Cameron Gordon
- Feb 20, 2020
- 4 min
The 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...
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Cameron Gordon
- Jan 24, 2020
- 4 min
An Algorithmic View of Law
In Western Australia it an offence to possess more than 50kg of potatoes, unless you are a member of the Potato Corporation. Challenging...
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Cameron Gordon
- Dec 26, 2019
- 4 min
End 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...
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Cameron Gordon
- Dec 14, 2019
- 3 min
What 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....
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Cameron Gordon
- Dec 6, 2019
- 4 min
Artificial Economics
Those 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...
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