Richard David Gill

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Can someone explain the difference between Clifford algebra (the usual one - as a vector space over the reals, 8-dimensional) and the octonions?

The Wikipedia articles on these two subjects contradict one another. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_algebra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octonion Note: I refer to *the* Clifford...

22 February 2014 8,074 30 View

Can someone suggest a better algorithm for computing the maximum likelihood estimator of a probability mass function with unknown labels?

We are presently using a combination of Metropolis-Hastings, EM, and stochastic approximation. but as the problem gets larger, it gets very very slow, and gets trapped at local maxima at the...

27 December 2013 9,529 2 View