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LDA resources

April 12, 2026

https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/latent-dirichlet-allocation What is Latent Dirichlet allocation | IBM

Blei, D. M., Ng, A. Y., & Jordan, M., I. (2003). Latent dirichlet allocation. https://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers/v3/blei03a.html https://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume3/blei03a/blei03a.pdf

GeeksforGeeks. (2025, July 23). Topic modeling using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA). GeeksforGeeks.
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/nlp/topic-modeling-using-latent-dirichlet-allocation-lda/

Ganegedara, T. (2025, February 2). Intuitive Guide to Latent Dirichlet Allocation. Towards Data Science.
https://towardsdatascience.com/light-on-math-machine-learning-intuitive-guide-to-latent-dirichlet-allocation-437c81220158/

some blogs
https://johaupt.github.io/blog/Topic_modeling_with_Gibbs_sampling_in_R.html https://agustinus.kristia.de/blog/lda-gibbs/

Bouba/kiki effect – Wikipedia

March 29, 2026

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect

Should We All Be ‘House Burping’? – The New York Times

March 29, 2026

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/realestate/what-is-house-burping-luften.html

QT:{{”
In the last few weeks, an unfamiliar German term may have surfaced on your social media feeds. “Lüften” roughly translates to “ventilate” or “airing out” and involves just that — opening windows in your home once or twice a day, regardless of the outside temperature, to eliminate stale air.
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Transformer youtube video

March 6, 2026

youtube links to the transformer video that is helpful for
understanding the transformer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMlx5fFNoYc

3Blue1Brown. (2024, April 1). Transformers, the tech behind LLMs | Deep Learning Chapter 5 [Video]. YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M

Attention in transformers, step-by-step | Deep Learning Chapter 6

Hook for 11am oped

March 5, 2026

Ortiz, A. (2026, March 3). British Columbia moving to permanent daylight saving time, changing clocks for the last time Sunday. The New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/world/canada/daylight-savings-bc-time.html

Should we all be “house burping”?

March 5, 2026

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/realestate/what-is-house-burping-luften.html

It may improve your home air quality.

February 18, 2026

The German practice of “lüften” is gaining traction on social media.

If famous artists painted you | twoworlds.co

March 5, 2026

https://twoworlds.co/us/personalized-books-journals/eqi1gklseuokph/if-famous-artists-painted-you

LDA resources

February 28, 2026

Ganegedara, T. (2025, February 2). Intuitive Guide to Latent Dirichlet Allocation. Towards Data Science.
https://towardsdatascience.com/light-on-math-machine-learning-intuitive-guide-to-latent-dirichlet-allocation-437c81220158/

some blogs
https://johaupt.github.io/blog/Topic_modeling_with_Gibbs_sampling_in_R.html https://agustinus.kristia.de/blog/lda-gibbs/

RFA – MPI/PI NIH limit

February 28, 2026

the answer… from OSP…

The NIH limitation is by council round, rather than submission date. Council rounds can be found on the NIH standard due dates page: https://grants.nih.gov/grants-process/submit/submission-policies/standard-due-dates

Here is the policy info on the limitation:

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-132.html

Some additional guidance (including a table to show which deadlines fit into which year) can be found on the OSP website: https://research-support.yale.edu/sponsored-projects/office-of-sponsored-projects/proposals

Calendar Year 2026

Advisory Council Dates Application Due Date Notes
January 5/25/25-9/7/25 Not included in the count
May 9/25/25-1/7/26 Included in CY 26 count
August or October 1/25/26-5/7/26 Included in CY 26 count

Calendar Year 2027

Advisory Council Dates Application Due Dates Notes
January 5/25/26-9/7/26 Included in CY 27 count
May 9/25/26-1/7/27 Included in CY 27 count
August or October 1/25/27-5/7/27 Included in CY 27 count

Receipt dates:
9/25/2025-5/7/26 6 max

Receipt dates:
5/25-2026 -5/7/27 6 max

MCB111 Mathematics in Biology

February 22, 2026

http://mcb111.org/w06/w06-lecture.html
Has some nice textbook downloads – e.g.
http://mcb111.org/w06/KollerFriedman.pdf

QT:{{”
There are many good books to learn about probabilistic models. “Probabilistic graphical models: principles and techniques” (by Koller & Friedman) is a comprehensive source about more general probabilistic models than the one we are going to study here.
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Subset of chap 7 focuses on GMRF