Holy and Wise: The mythology and contributions of the fool in mathematics and physics

On August 8th, the NY Times published a long essay about Allan Brooks who fell under a dellusion that he had "had discovered a novel mathematical formula, one that could take down the internet and power …

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Introduction

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I am interested in making a contribution to Emedded Optimal Transport by extending some of the low dimensional encoding techniques to Optimal Transport. This is the first of my projects to learn the computational literature and techniques

You can visit my code: (https://github.com/EvanMisshula/variational-encoder)

🧠 What Is a …

Roadmap to Become a Machine Learning Researcher Focused on Embedded Optimal Transport

🧠 Phase 1: Mathematical and Theoretical Foundations

Goal: Build deep fluency in the theory that underpins optimal transport, geometric learning, and high-dimensional data analysis.

Core Topics

• Measure theory & probability

• “Probability with Martingales” (Williams)

• “High-Dimensional Probability” (Vershynin)
• Linear algebra & matrix …