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A Penalized Matrix Decomposition, and Its Applications
We present a penalized matrix decomposition, a new framework for computing a low-rank approximation for a matrix. This low-rank approximation is a generalization of the singular value decomposition. While the singular value decomposition usually yields singular vectors that have no elements that are exactly equal to zero, our new decomposition results in sparse singular vectors. This decomposition has a number of applications. When it is applied to a data matrix, it can yield interpretable results. One can apply it to a covariance matrix in order to obtain a new method for sparse principal components, and one can apply it to a crossproducts matrix in order to obtain a new method for sparse canonical correlation analysis. Moreover, when applied to a dissimilarity matrix, this leads to a method for sparse hierarchical clustering, which allows for the clustering of a set of observations using an adaptively chosen subset of the features. Finally, if this decomposition is applied to a between-class covariance matrix then it yields penalized linear discriminant analysis, an extension of Fisher's linear discriminant analysis to the high-dimensional setting.
Annual Commencement
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Dear Julia
Elaine Hamilton has never wanted to be the center of attention. She'd like nothing more than to cook quietly in her kitchen, mastering French cooking with the recipes of the great Julia Child. So how did she end up with cameras zooming in on her and a crowd cheering her on? Well, it involves . . . an eccentric best friend named after a font, five lively brothers constantly asking, “What's for dinner?” a rotten fig and a weakness, a feminist congresswoman mother, a yoga-practicing father, a chest full of unsent letters, and many, many roast ducks. Delicious. Just delicious.
Johnny Got His Gun
The Searing Portrayal Of War That Has Stunned And Galvanized Generations Of Readers An immediate bestseller upon its original publication in 1939, Dalton Trumbo?s stark, profoundly troubling masterpiece about the horrors of World War I brilliantly crystallized the uncompromising brutality of war and became the most influential protest novel of the Vietnam era. Johnny Got His Gun is an undisputed classic of antiwar literature that?s as timely as ever. ?A terrifying book, of an extraordinary emotional intensity.?--The Washington Post "Powerful. . . an eye-opener." --Michael Moore "Mr. Trumbo sets this story down almost without pause or punctuation and with a fury amounting to eloquence."--The New York Times "A book that can never be forgotten by anyone who reads it."--Saturday Review
Ernst Jünger and Germany
For most of his life, Ernst Jünger, one of Europe's leading twentieth-century writers, has been controversial. Renowned as a soldier who wrote of his experience in the First World War, he has maintained a remarkable writing career that has spanned five periods of modern German history. In this first comprehensive study of Jünger in English, Thomas R. Nevin focuses on the writer's first fifty years, from the late Wilhelmine era of the Kaiser to the end of Hitler's Third Reich. By addressing the controversies and contradictions of Jünger, a man who has been extolled, despised, denounced, and admired throughout his lifetime, Ernst Jünger and Germany also opens an uncommon view on the nation...
A Dubious Past
A Dubious Past examines from a new perspective the legacy of Ernst Jünger (1895-1998), one of the most fascinating figures in twentieth-century German intellectual life. From the time he burst onto the literary scene with The Storms of Steel in the early 1920s until he reached Olympian age in a reunited Germany, Jünger's writings on a vast range of topics generated scores of controversies. In old age he became a cultural celebrity whose long life mirrored the tragic twists and turns of Germany's most difficult century. Elliot Neaman's study reflects an impressive investigation of published and unpublished material, including letters, interviews, and other media. Through his analysis of Jü...
The Truth Machine
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Copse 125
Originally published in 1924, Copse 125 (Das Wäldchen 125) is Ernst Jünger's third book, where he further recounts his experiences in one particularly treacherous stretch of the Western Front. In Copes 125, Jünger chronicles the deadlocked positions of battle located in an "isolated little patch of wood" during the last year of the war. Along with his later recollections of the event, Jünger also shares his ruminations concerning the material and spiritual implications of the front line warrior. This is a new English translation of Das Wäldchen 125, published by E.S. Mittler & Son, Berlin, Germany, 1925.
Visit to Godenholm
Visit to Godenholm (German: Besuch auf Godenholm) is a 1952 novella by the German writer Ernst Jünger. It tells the story of a group of people who are invited to the island Godenholm in Scandinavia, where they take part in a mind-altering séance with strong surreal imagery. "The light began to crackle, a blue thread rose from the edge of the candelabra. Moltner looked at it first with amazement, then with delight, as if his eyes had gained a new power. Honey-scented smoke rose from thin wicks and then branched out into delicate wreaths. It was as if his imagination had created it - a tapestry of pale sea lilies in a depth that barely rippled with the surge of the waves. Time activated in the structure - encircled it, twisted and curved it, as if imaginary coins were being quickly stacked on top of one another. The multiplicity of space was revealed in the fibrous net, in the nerves stretching the thread in infinite numbers and unfurling vertically."
Aladdin's Problem
Elegant allegorical tale of Frederick Baroh, descended from a once aristocratic family, who joins his uncle's funeral business and develops a vast, lucrative necropolis.
