Bayesian Holonic (Global) Games

Bayesian Holonic (Global) Games

This past year I suffered a lot mentally and financially, my funding got paused and my girlfriend Sam (check out her spotify!) lost her boojee A.P.C. …
About Me

About Me

When you write an About Me, you want something permanent. Well, I go by ‘Union’ — a homophone of my Chinese name that I find neat …
The Lorenz dynamics and Butterfly Effect

The Lorenz dynamics and Butterfly Effect

Chaotic behavior can emerge even in simple dynamics such as replicator, and Rock-Paper-Scissor oscillators, depending on the game settings. To begin …
Talagrand's Isoperimetry inequality

Talagrand's Isoperimetry inequality

This post is in celebration of Michel Talagrand winning Abel prize. Not to overly romanticize this but this is pretty much a come back story because …
Some Notes on Dueling Bandits

Some Notes on Dueling Bandits

The dueling bandit problem natrually fits the description of a variety of recommendation systems that require ‘’learning on the …
Erdos-Szekeres Theorem

Erdos-Szekeres Theorem

This post is dedicated to Erdos-Szekeres Theorem, which says: ES Thm. (Monotone sequence) For any positive integer $n$, any sequence of $n^2 + 1$ …
Wardrop Equilibrium

Wardrop Equilibrium

I remember having those unpleasant lines in our high school canteen, flooded by the starving students queeing for their lunch, I would always pick a …
Monge Partition

Monge Partition

There are many service centers in our city, such as MTA subway station, Vaccination sites, Wifi hot-spots, Blue Bicycles, hospitals, parking lots …
Nesterov

Nesterov

I did a presentation in a group meeting to briefly review the lower complexity bound of first-order convex optimization; and how Nesterov proceed to …
Capacity of Deception

Capacity of Deception

This is pretty much scribed from Tor Lattimore’s Bandit Algorithms book,Bandit Algorithms. This book has been the most informational item for me …