About

About the blog:

The main purpose of this blog web notebook is to celebrate the pleasure of understanding things at a fundamental level. I will write on whatever I find intellectually intriguing and stimulating.

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About the author:

I am Rod Carvalho, a graduate student at UC Santa Barbara. I am interested in Control Theory, Dynamical Systems, Information Theory, Operations Research, Optimization, Signal Processing, Statistics.

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About the header:

The header image is taken from chapter 4 of Manifolds, Tensor Analysis, and Applications (by Abraham, Marsden, and Ratiu).

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Comment Policy:

Anyone can comment, and everyone is welcome to comment. However, not tolerated will be:

• spammers (human or bots).

• unconstructive, offensive, or unsubstantiated comments.

• comments which are completely irrelevant and unrelated to the topic being discussed.

Intelligent, constructive, logical, insightful comments are VERY welcome. If you would like to include or source code in comments, take a look at these:

• Math for the Masses

• How do I post source code?

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Thanks for visiting,

-Rod Carvalho