Demisting Entrepreneurship

Gave a presentation to UG audience at CSA summer school today.

Presentation can be accessed here.

Watch video here

4000+ chapter downloads as of 2013!

Stochastic Recursive Algorithms for Optimization:

Simultaneous Perturbation Methods

Stochastic Recursive Algorithms for Optimization: Simultaneous Perturbation Methods S. Bhatnagar, H L Prasad, L A Prashanth Series: Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, Vol. 434, 302 pages, 2013 [Flyer] [Springer book page] [Read online on SpringerLink] [Front Matter (Preface + TOC)] [Sample Chapter (Introduction)]

News

• SPSA Wiki lists our book as comprehensive reference text!
• NIPS 2012 tutorial on Stochastic Search and Optimization by James Spall links to our book [Youtube Video]
• According to the data received from Springer, our book received more than 4000 downloads by the end of 2013 making it amongst the top 50% of the most downloaded books!

GNU/Linux lecture and exercises

Those of you who wish to grasp
a) shell scripting,
b) regular expression (regex), and/or
c) some fundamentals about GNU/Linux systems, visit
http://stochastic.csa.iisc.ernet.in/~prasad/gnucourse/documents.html

Want to be a shell scripting expert? Solve all exercises given in the above link!!

Look through references given in each lecture to understand more.

My first blog post

I'm starting off this blog to share my thoughts.