Insight by Elon Lindenstrauss, Fields Medalist in a talk at Queens College: "What does a mathematician do when their question is easy? They make it harder. What does a mathematician do when their question is hard? They simplify it. The goal is to have a question in the sweet spot." (paraphrased)

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Fun (...) fact: the only linear operators on matrices that preserves the rank are X->AXB, where A and B are invertible (with X->X^T in the square case). This was apparently first proved (?) in 1959 by Marcus and Moyls.

Kevin Tierney talks at the CRM workshop Combinatorial Optimization & Data Science about solving combinatorial optimization problems with deep reinforcement learning. 1/N

Characterizing finely the decay of eigenvalues of kernel matrices: many people need it, but explicit references are hard to find. This blog post reviews amazing asymptotic results from Harold Widom (1963!) and proposes new non-asymptotic bounds. francisbach.com/spectrum-ker...

This review paper by @guillaume-garrigos.com on SGD-related algorithms is a fantastic resource, offering elegant, self-contained, and concise proofs in a single, accessible reference. arxiv.org/pdf/2301.11235

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