• Lasso dual Derivation of the Lasso solution from dual formulation using projection operator and some non-obvious properties that follow from the geometry of the dual formulation.
  • Topological features applied to the MNIST data set Extraction of topological features that can be used as an input to standard algorithms to obtain qualitative geometric information.
  • Some math behind water towers Finding the optimal arrangement of metal rings to reinforce the cylindrical structure of a water tank.
  • Ridge regression Derivation of ridge regression estimator and it's properties, the role of the penalty function and the analysis of regularization parameter.
  • Multicollinearity effect on OLS regression The cause of inflation effect of highly correlated regressors on ordinary least squares estimator.