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ACO in Python: PADS for Minimum Spanning Trees
Sometimes, instead of working, I like to see what search terms are bringing readers to my blog. The most common search that healthyalgorithms has been most useless for is “minimum spanning tree...
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Matching Algorithms and Reproductive Health: Part 1, Matchings Emerge from...
Earlier this week, I was inspired by current events to launch a bold, crazy-sounding series about matching theory and its application to reproductive health. This first installment is a quick social...
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Matching Algorithms and Reproductive Health: Part 2, Matching and Virginity...
I might have been a little over-ambitious with this series. I wrote a little bit about the how matching theory emerged from the social sciences two weeks ago. But then I got really busy! And that was...
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Matching Algorithms and Reproductive Health: Part 3, A Stylized Virginity Pledge
It’s been three weeks and one IHME retreat since I wrote about matching algorithms and virginity pledges, and I think I now understand what’s going on in Patient Teenagers well enough to describe it....
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ACO in Python: Minimum Weight Perfect Matchings (a.k.a. Matching Algorithms...
This is the final item in my series on Matching Algorithms and Reproductive Health, and it brings the story full circle, returning to the algorithms side of the show. Today I’ll demonstrate how to...
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C4G @ GaTech
The Chronicle of Higher Ed has a short piece on public-service applications of computer science that are coming out of a class called Computing for Good (C4G) that TCS star Santosh Vempala co-taught at...
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Convex optimization in Python: Non-negative least squares with Pyomo and Ipopt
Last month I attended a CNSTAT workshop https://sites.nationalacademies.org/DBASSE/CNSTAT/DBASSE_196518 on differentially private (DP) census data and left thinking that I need to get more hands-on...
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