Research overview
Drift and selection in text ecosystems
An introduction to the mathematical model of drift and selection accompanying the hosted preprint.
Research presentations
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Video explanations, seminar recordings, and slides, with direct routes to the underlying papers.
The five videos below are existing AI-generated research overviews. Captions and checked transcripts are not yet available. Each has a paper link for the precise statements and arguments.
Research overview
Impartial games and reinforcement learning
An overview accompanying the paper by Bei Zhou and Søren Riis on learning in impartial games.
Research overview
Learning the structure of Nim
An overview accompanying the Mastering NIM preprint and its multi-frame approach.
Research overview
Coin patterns and waiting-time paradoxes
An explanation accompanying the coin-racing preprint by Søren Riis and Mike Paterson.
Research overview
The complexity gap
An introduction accompanying the paper A complexity gap for tree resolution.
Academic talks
Selected talks & lecture archive
Recordings hosted by the institutions open on their websites. Slides and the five video overviews above are hosted here.
- Coin racing and waiting-time paradoxes: why fair coins are exceptional
- Finite Dynamical Systems, Causal Networks and Information Inequalities
- Ada Lovelace, a scientist in the archives
- Graph guessing games and non-Shannon information inequalities
- Network Coding with Distributed Coding Functions
- Graph Entropy, Network Coding and Guessing Games
- Valiant’s Shift Problem
- A logician’s approach to Network Coding
- Complexity Gaps for Unsatisfiability Problems
- Complexity Gaps for Nullstellensatz Proofs
- More on the relative strength of counting principles