Notes concerning “Mathematical optimization”

• Modeling trees with slices containing metaballs 2014-06-29 (updated 2014-07-02) (6 minutes)
• More thoughts on powerful primitives for simplified computer systems architecture 2015-08-18 (updated 2015-11-02) (165 minutes)
• We should use end-to-end optimization algorithms for 3-D printing design 2015-09-03 (14 minutes)
• Anytime realtime 2016-04-22 (4 minutes)
• Opacity holograms 2016-08-16 (8 minutes)
• Kinect modeling 2016-09-16 (1 minute)
• Reconstructing a 3-D Lambertian surface from video with a moving light source 2016-09-16 (1 minute)
• Topics to study in 2016 2016-10-27 (updated 2016-11-15) (37 minutes)
• One-line thoughts that don’t merit separate notes 2017-01-04 (updated 2017-02-25) (4 minutes)
• High-precision control of low-stiffness sytems with bounded-Q resonances 2017-05-29 (updated 2017-06-01) (4 minutes)
• Affine arithmetic optimization 2017-07-19 (updated 2019-09-15) (3 minutes)
• Optimization-based painting software 2018-04-27 (1 minute)
• Patterns for failure-free, bounded-space, and bounded-time programming 2018-04-27 (updated 2019-09-10) (42 minutes)
• Ideas to pursue 2018-05-05 (updated 2018-08-16) (6 minutes)
• Gradient descent beyond machine learning 2018-05-18 (2 minutes)
• Caustic simulation 2018-09-10 (updated 2018-11-04) (2 minutes)
• Image approximation 2019-05-14 (10 minutes)
• Using the method of secants for general optimization 2019-07-22 (updated 2019-11-26) (13 minutes)
• $1 recognizer diagrams 2019-08-11 (updated 2019-10-24) (15 minutes)
• Complex linear regression (in the field ℂ of complex numbers) 2019-08-17 (updated 2019-08-18) (9 minutes)
• Robust local search in vector spaces using adaptive step sizes, and thoughts on extending quasi-Newton methods 2019-08-17 (updated 2019-09-15) (15 minutes)
• Some notes on the landscape of linear optimization software and applications 2019-08-21 (updated 2019-08-25) (35 minutes)
• Fast mathematical optimization with affine arithmetic 2019-09-15 (5 minutes)
• Fabric optimization 2019-10-28 (updated 2019-10-29) (17 minutes)
• Sparse filter optimization 2019-11-01 (5 minutes)
• Approximate optimization 2019-11-13 (3 minutes)
• Rediscovering successive parabolic interpolation: derivative-free optimization of scalar functions by fitting a parabola 2019-11-26 (updated 2019-11-27) (8 minutes)
• English diphones 2019-12-03 (5 minutes)
• Nomadic furniture optimization 2019-12-15 (2 minutes)