IEEE PDF “Express”
So IEEE wants PDFs that appear on IEEExplore to have two properties: all fonts are embedded the compatibility level is 1.4 Seems simple, right? Except that their instructions for PDF Express are for...
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A Moveable Feast (Kenneth F. Kiple) : The first half is a somewhat condensed version of the Cambridge World History of Food and covers different plants and foodstuffs from around the world. The rest of...
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I saw Teatro Luna’s Living Large in a Mini Kind of Way, by Diane Rodriguez. Teatro Luna usually does pieces written by their own collective, so it was a shift for them to do someone else’s play. Living...
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I had never really heard of this result, sometimes called the Matrix Determinant Lemma, but it came up in the process of answering a relatively simple question. Suppose I have an -dimensional jointly...
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Somehow, I had never heard of the Arnold cat map. Meow. I am definitely guilty of reading and walking at the same time. Serious Eats Chicago ate all the things at Hot Doug’s, to which I have still not...
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CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Signal Processing Society IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE Special Issue on Signal Processing for Cyber-security and Privacy Aims and Scope: Information technology and electronic...
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Another cool optical illusion. I recently visited Taos, NM, and the sky there was clear and you could see so many stars. I was listening today to Debussy’s Arabesque #1 and it brought back memories of...
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On Saturday I attended the Electronic Data Methods (EDM) Forum Symposium in Orlando. The focus of the workshop was how to build infrastructure for sharing clinical data for improving patient care. This...
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Karthik Chandrasekaran gave a talk at TTI today on the feasibility of integer programs. Given a polytope defined by the inequalities in dimension , can we say whether the polytope contains an integer...
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If you’re attending ISIT then you probably got an email about Trailhead, a graphical system which links papers at ISIT “based on how many authors they have in common in the references, and each paper...
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