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smathon A complete guide to getting what you want (2018)

Super important, and vastly underrated question. The article does partly address this.

smathon Black holes as the source of dark energy

Oh I just mean when comparing (A) block hole in a black box, vs (B) a non-black-hole start of the same mass, B will likely be over a large volume, and hence will produce different spacetime curvature.

smathon Black holes as the source of dark energy

You mention point mass. Yes, the volume also matters. If your second black box contains the same mass but over a bigger volume, then the spacetime curvature it will cause will be less extreme than the black hole in the first box. The book I most like on this topic is Kip Thorne's Black Holes and Time Warps. IMO Thorne is a better explainer than Hawking.

smathon Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms (2003)

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smathon Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms (2003)

I attended an amazing talk by David circa 2006 at Princeton where he demoed his probabilistic text entry system called Dasher [1,3]. I think it was made into an iOS app later.

I also fondly recall his videos on Gaussian processes - best explanation on GPs I ever came across. [2]

[1] https://www.inference.org.uk/dasher/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NegVuuHwa8Q

[3] https://dasher.acecentre.net/about/

EDIT: Fixed the youtube link in [2], added [3].