if these walls could talk.

sometimes it's a good thing that people can't see you....i'm waiting on a phone interview i have in thirty minutes for a magazine shoot that is coming out this summer. if only the interviewer knew i was hanging out in my bathrobe, pj pants, and had a towel in my hair. i swear i'm professional :) and that my sweet husband had to put a post it note on my desk lamp to make sure i remembered about it (oh, and the refrigerator...he knows where a pregnant girl hangs out)

i have a secret....i love watching the halfpipe (although i have to admit, i have been calling it the half pike until my husband corrected me last night)...shaun white ROCKS!! he is so good!! the olympics was so fun to watch last night...i am so happy for lindsey vonn too.

*images courtesy of concrete and honey, brilliant asylum, la masion boheme, canadian house and home, bryn alexandra

tay's room....

last night taylor told me she missed her pink room...i guess that means it's time to give her new room a little attention....starting w/ the walls.....

*images courtesy of unknown, new york times, hgtv, unknown, domino, ny social diary, pottery barn kids, this is glamourous, serena and lilly, elle decor (please forgive me, i have had a lot of these images saved in my personal folder which is why the photos are unknown)

snow...

49 states got snow this weekend....quite a big deal for a girl who grew up in middle GA and now lives on the coast in SC b/c snow is something i rarely see or drive in.....

*images courtesy of unknown, elizabeth bauer, katey elliot, yay everyday

Quantum Machine Learning

Recently, Google announced their intentions to use quantum algorithms for the search. They implemented Grover's algorithm on the D-Wave chip. Whatever they say about D-Wave, we should admit that quantum computers are going to change the nature of machine learning, it is only a matter of time.

In spite of I had the university course on quantum computing, I am not able to make head or tails of it. (See my recent post about our university education) But, as far as I know, the key idea is a computer can perform exhaustive search in constant time. This means that for quantum algorithms P=NP. For example, the problem of exact MAP inference in an MRF could be efficiently solved via exhaustive search in the space of all possible assignments.

However, quantum computers return probabilistic results, so there remains a work for mathematicians. But it is the work of the different kind. In the field of MRF MAP inference, all the algorithms like loopy BP will be forgotten. Another example: Google's Hartmut Neven developed a quantum version of AdaBoost. So, machine learners, go study quantum mechanics!