The Permeable Classroom or the Tilted Arc Revisited

The Permeable Classroom or the Tilted Arc Revisited reviews the author\u27s various roles as artist, community activist, art educator and art therapist, in the design and implementation of a large, sequential community-based \u27\u27Tree Memorial project. Using the Tree Memorial Project as a compelling example of the permeable classroom, the paper delivers an overview of the project that takes place in and around the public school setting, featuring collaboration between teachers, students, parents, administrators, community residents, and city officials

Relaxations for inference in restricted Boltzmann machines

We propose a relaxation-based approximate inference algorithm that samples near-MAP configurations of a binary pairwise Markov random field. We experiment on MAP inference tasks in several restricted Boltzmann machines. We also use our underlying sampler to estimate the log-partition function of restricted Boltzmann machines and compare against other sampling-based methods.Comment: ICLR 2014 workshop track submissio