Rebec Vineyard and Winery, in Amherst, Virginia, recently hosted the 18th Annual Virginia Wine and Garlic Festival. Six area wineries, lots of garlicky foods, music, and entertainers made this a really fun time for all.

The short video below captures a few of the sights and sounds there, in case you …

In an earlier post I mentioned movie footage of jujutsu moves from a Bartitsu instructor, perhaps some of the earliest motion picture footage of jujutsu in the world.

Tony Wolf of the Bartitsu Society has created a very nice video of several of Sadakazu Uyenishi’s jujutsu moves from the book …

I’ll be giving a talk this Wednesday titled “Knowledge Discovery with Iterative Denoising”.

Abstract:

The tasks of proper data analysis and knowledge extraction in data are beset by multiple difficulties when the datasets are large and in high dimension. From a performance perspective, it can be …