The use of groups in combinatorics goes long ways back, and group related constructions are often among the most beautiful constructions known; a claim amply demonstrated in Spyros Magliveras’ work. While this is clearly due to the high level of symmetry of the resulting structures, the usefulness of groups in combinatorics goes beyond this obvious explanation, and group based constructions oft...

Key words: aircraft de-icing fluid (ADF), phytoremediation, tolyltriazole, propylene glycol, ethylene glycol Aircraft de-icer fluids (ADFs) and antifreeze solutions are mainly formulations of either propylene or ethylene glycol and additives such as benzotriazole methyl substitution isomers (tolyltriazoles), and surfac-tants. Although the formulations are proprietary, in general the glycols are...

Kronecker-factor Approximate Curvature (Martens & Grosse, 2015) (K-FAC) is a 2nd-order optimization method which has been shown to give state-of-the-art performance on large-scale neural network optimization tasks (Ba et al., 2017). It is based on an approximation to the Fisher information matrix (FIM) that makes assumptions about the particular structure of the network and the way it is parame...

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