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Early work

A Method of Increasing the Contextual Input to Adaptive Pattern Recognition Systems, Technical Report RIPR 1000/14/87, Research Initiative in Pattern Recognition, Royal Signals and Radar Establishment, Malvern, Worcester. WR14 3PS
(My first paper on neural networks.)
DJVU files: Readable, but poor quality (130K) high-resolution version (2M) zip file containing huge tif images
connectionsM.ps.gz | PDF | |DJVU |
My first paper on statistics and neural networks,
Maximum Entropy Connections: Neural Networks,
was published in Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods, Laramie, 1990, pages 237-244.
I don't have the original postscript, but I have slapped together the above postscript document (which includes an unnecessary 7 page bibliography) to preserve the contents of the paper on line.

Mathematical recreations

rectangles.ps.gz. rectangles.pdf. html. abstract. | <- UK | Canada -> | rectangles.ps.gz. rectangles.pdf. html. abstract.
`Simple Proofs of a Rectangle Tiling Theorem'. (2003)
corner.ps.gz. corner.pdf. abstract. | <- UK | Canada -> | corner.ps.gz. corner.pdf. abstract.
` Big Things that Squeeze Round Corners '.
conway.ps.gz. conway.pdf. abstract. | <- UK | Canada -> | conway.ps.gz. conway.pdf. abstract.
I edited a 15-page book chapter, `The Power of Mathematics', by John Conway.

Other Fun stuff

Codes
A note about the iTap / T9 text-to-numbers code
Games
Bao: An illustration of what research in theoretical physics is like

Bayesian methods, quickies

`The pope is (probably) not an alien' | <- UK | Canada -> | html
With Sean Eddy
euro.ps.gz. euro.pdf. | euro.DJVU. abstract. | <- UK | Canada -> | euro.ps.gz. euro.pdf. | euro.DJVU. abstract.
Belgian euro coins: 140 heads in 250 tosses -- suspicious?

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and by a partnership award from IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
David J.C. MacKay
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