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Nick Alger
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Researcher at the Oden Institute (UT Austin) working on numerical methods for PDE-constrained optimization and inverse problems

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Intuitively, what is the difference between Eigendecomposition and Singular Value Decomposition?
Mar 4, 2013
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Motivation for Ramanujan's mysterious $\pi$ formula
Dec 13, 2010
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What are some examples of a mathematical result being counterintuitive?
May 4, 2012
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What is the intuition behind Chebyshev's Inequality in Measure Theory
May 12, 2021
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Meaning of Exponential map
Oct 31, 2014
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Explain "homotopy" to me
Feb 10, 2016
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Category of all categories vs. Set of all sets
Nov 11, 2010
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Why is determinant a multilinear function?
May 16, 2017
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Gradient of 2-norm squared
Dec 6, 2014
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Does local convexity imply global convexity?
May 16, 2012
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Why is Newton's method not widely used in machine learning?
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Normalizable wavefunction that does not vanish at infinity
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Path integral vs. measure on infinite dimensional space
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Physical meaning of Legendre transformation
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