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Nick Alger
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Researcher at the Oden Institute (UT Austin) working on numerical methods for PDE-constrained optimization and inverse problems

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Intuitively, what is the difference between Eigendecomposition and Singular Value Decomposition?
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Motivation for Ramanujan's mysterious $\pi$ formula
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What is the intuition behind Chebyshev's Inequality in Measure Theory
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Category of all categories vs. Set of all sets
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Explain "homotopy" to me
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Why is determinant a multilinear function?
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Does local convexity imply global convexity?
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Gradient of 2-norm squared
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