I've been trying to read more recently, regular books and academic texts alike. A particular paper I've taken interest in recently is Classification Trees for Problems with Monotonicity Constraints[1], which surveys methods for generating a certain type of decision tree. Since the purpose of this post is more auto-didactic, . . .

In a continuation of my machine learning series, today I will discuss a more cutting-edge topic in machine learning that has significant social import: fairness. In the modern era, there is significant momentum towards using machine learning techniques with the plethora of available data to make key decisions affecting many . . .

In today's blog, I'll introduce the concept of fingerprinting algorithms. The premise of fingerprinting is simple. Suppose that you have two objects, $x$ and $y$, and you want to quickly verify if $x = y$. If $x, y$ are drawn from some universe $U$, to determine whether $x = y$ one could . . .

##Introduction Problem. Suppose you are in a room with $n$ lightbulbs and $k$ switches, where $1 \leq n$ and $1 \leq k$. Suppose that any particular switch turns a subset of light bulbs on. Find the minimum number of switches such that flipping them on turns on all of the . . .

Despite having studied mathematics and computer science for quite some time now, I am still amazed to this day at how the two fields can intersect in profound and unexpected ways. This post expounds upon one such case, examining how solving a seemingly simple enumeration problem algorithmically convolves interesting mathematical . . .