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@Tierçéu Rôibeardescù I hope you will pardon my intrusion but I wanted to express my appreciation and happiness with your revitalization of the Royal Society. It is so nice to see the recent activity!

Quote from: Sir Lüc on December 13, 2022, 11:17:58 AMAzul,

although not a Royal Society member, yesterday marked the official end of my academic career**, and I'd like to share my master's degree thesis for consumption by our scientific community. (The presentation was a bit less low-level and might have been more understandable by laypeople, but I don't have a full recording of it.)

Since my graduation coincided with Llimbaziuă, I'm extremely tempted to release at least some abridged version of it in Talossan. In the meantime though, here's the full stuff as submitted in English:

Streaming algorithms for center-based clustering in general metrics

Abstract: Center-based clustering is an important yet computationally difficult primitive in the realm of unsupervised learning and data analysis. We specifically focus on the k-median clustering problem in general metric spaces, in which one seeks to find a set of k centers, so to minimise the sum of distances from each point in the dataset to its closest center. In this thesis, we present and analyze efficient techniques to deal with the k-median clustering problem in the streaming setting – where the dataset is presented one point at a time and not accessible in its entirety* – by leveraging the dimensionality of the dataset's underlying metric space.

(*: not accessible in its entirety all at once, I should have written. Yay for writing it at some ungodly hour of the night :p)

(**: sike! in February 2023, I accepted a position as (non-postdoctoral) research fellow, so my academic career is not actually over yet.)

hi luc, under the new model of membership requirements your submitting of your this thesis qualifies you for membership in the Society, should you wish it.

@Crement Itravilatx has nominated himself as new party leader. With no other nominations before the deadline we have now moved toward a question period from members.

Hey everyone, I am trying to figure out the issue but I am having trouble activating the league for this season. I may have to start a new one and reinvite everyone. I will keep you posted.

Count me in.

Group 3: Pretty strong. I still like Zitti e Buoni and Wombo was a nice discovery. Either of these could have gotten the final point.

Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill - 3
Supertramp - Fool's Overture - 2
Ásgeir - Nýfallið regn - 1


Group 4: Oof. I was really exicted about the Iron Maiden nomination. Blue Monday is a banger that I would like to see in the final again. I don't have points for either. Deodato was a nice discovery and I liked this MGMT more than the previous two. Neither Beatles song is among their best work imho.

Gorillaz - On Melancholy Hill - 3
Deep Purple - Child in Time - 2
Robert Wyatt - Alife - 1

GROUP 3
3- Wombo - Dreamsickle
2- Ásgeir - Nýfallið regn
1- Ryuichi Sakamoto - Energy Flow

GROUP 4
3- New Order - Blue Monday
2- Deep Purple - Child in Time
1- The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever

GROUP 3
3 - Ásgeir - Nýfallið regn
2 - Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
1 - Doobie Brothers - Long Train Runnin'

GROUP 4
3 - The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
2 - The Beatles - Taxman
1 - Deep Purple - Child in Time