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(Un)Conditional Sample Generation Based on Distribution Element Trees

Recently, distribution element trees (DETs) were introduced as an accurate and computationally efficient method for density estimation. In this work, we demonstrate that the DET formulation promotes an easy and inexpensive way to generate random samples similar to a smooth bootstrap. These samples can be generated unconditionally, but also, without further complications, conditionally utilizing available information about certain probability-space components.Comment: published online in the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistic

The Deleuzian Revolution: Ten Innovations in Difference and Repetition

Difference and Repetition might be said to have brought about a Deleuzian Revolution in philosophy comparable to Kant’s Copernican Revolution. Kant had denounced the three great terminal points of traditional metaphysics – self, world and God – as transcendent illusions, and Deleuze pushes Kant’s revolution to its limit by positing a transcendental field that excludes the coherence of the self, world and God in favour of an immanent and differential plane of impersonal individuations and pre-individual singularities. In the process, he introduces numerous conceptual innovations into philosophy: the becoming of concepts; a transformation of the form of the question; an insistence that philosophy must start in the middle; an attempt to think in terms of multiplicities; the development of a new logic and a new metaphysics based on a concept of difference; a new conception of space as intensive rather than extensive; a conception of time as a pure and empty form; and an understanding of philosophy as a system in heterogenesis – that is, a system that entails a perpetual genesis of the heterogeneous, an incessant production of the new. Keywords: concepts, becoming, multiplicity, singularity, the middle [au milieu], difference, intensity, time, system, the ne

Crab sport fisheries in Humboldt Bay and Cresent City Harbor, California

In December 1964 interviewing of sport crab fishermen was begun in Humboldt Bay. A similar study was initiated in Crescent City in 1965. Fifty-four anglers interviewed at Humboldt Bay in 1964 and 1965 caught 27 Dungeness crabs, Cancer magister. The total estimated catch during the sampling period was 400 Dungeness crabs. Skiff fishermen in Crescent City caught an estimated 6,318 Dungeness crabs during the 1965-66 season; 1,666 Dungeness crabs during the 1966-67 season and 5,054 Dungeness crabs during the 1967-68 season. There is a good potential for increased fishing in Crescent City Harbor, Trinidad Bay and Shelter Cove. (10p.

Cooperative Radar and Communications Signaling: The Estimation and Information Theory Odd Couple

We investigate cooperative radar and communications signaling. While each system typically considers the other system a source of interference, by considering the radar and communications operations to be a single joint system, the performance of both systems can, under certain conditions, be improved by the existence of the other. As an initial demonstration, we focus on the radar as relay scenario and present an approach denoted multiuser detection radar (MUDR). A novel joint estimation and information theoretic bound formulation is constructed for a receiver that observes communications and radar return in the same frequency allocation. The joint performance bound is presented in terms of the communication rate and the estimation rate of the system.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, to be presented at 2014 IEEE Radar Conferenc