Tag Archives: Influence

Influence, Threshold, and Noise

Posted on June 14, 2014 by

  My dear friend Itai Benjamini told me that he won’t be able to make it to my Tuesday talk on influence, threshold, and noise, and asked if I already have  the slides. So it occurred to me that perhaps … Continue reading →

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Analysis of Boolean Functions – week 1

Posted on September 3, 2013 by

Home page of the course. In the first lecture I defined the discrete n-dimensional cube and  Boolean functions. Then I moved to discuss five problems in extremal combinatorics dealing with intersecting families of sets. 1) The largest possible intersecting family … Continue reading →

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Tentative Plans and Belated Updates II

Posted on June 14, 2011 by

Elementary school reunion: Usually, I don’t write about personal matters over the blog, but having (a few weeks ago) an elementary school reunion after 42 years was a moving and exciting event as to consider making an exception. For now, here … Continue reading →

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Nati’s Influence

Posted on May 26, 2008 by

When do we say that one event causes another? Causality is a topic of great interest in statistics, physics, philosophy, law, economics, and many other places. Now, if causality is not complicated enough, we can ask what is the influence one event has … Continue reading →

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