[HN Gopher] Ingrid Daubechies Awarded National Medal of Science
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       Ingrid Daubechies Awarded National Medal of Science
        
       Author : sedtacet
       Score  : 115 points
       Date   : 2025-01-11 10:35 UTC (12 hours ago)
        
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       | _kb wrote:
       | For those unfamiliar with her work, there's a very approachable
       | lecture on wavelets and their common applications here:
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a90kMHY0Uto.
        
         | anyfoo wrote:
         | Thank you for that, I was looking for exactly this. I consider
         | myself fairly competent in a bunch of DSP topics (Fourier and
         | Laplace, and respectively the z-transform, are no mystery to
         | me), but I have a few problems to solve where I feel that
         | wavelets could be very beneficial.
        
       | kkylin wrote:
       | Here is the full list of this year's awardees:
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       | https://new.nsf.gov/honorary-awards/national-medal-science#n...
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       | (Also includes National Medal of Technology and Innovation.)
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       | And if you ever get the chance to hear Daubechies speak, go! She
       | gives very clear and accessible talks, and is also very
       | approachable.
        
       | szvsw wrote:
       | Daubechies wavelets are such incredibly strange and beautiful
       | objects, particularly for how _deviant_ they are compared to
       | everything you are typically familiar with when you are starting
       | your signal processing journey... if it's possible for a
       | mathematical construction to be punk, then it would be the
       | Daubechies wavelets.
        
       | ska wrote:
       | Well deserved!
        
       | littlestymaar wrote:
       | Almost 40 years after the creation of Daubechies wavelets, I know
       | we should wait a bit before awarding people since we can't always
       | know in advance what would stick as important and what would just
       | be temporary hype, but 40 years is too much IMHO...
        
       | nimish wrote:
       | Well deserved
        
       | cosmic_quanta wrote:
       | This award is well-deserved!
       | 
       | I was inspired by her work in the 2010s and have since used the
       | wavelets to denoise time-series with great success [0]. I believe
       | that learning about wavelet transforms is both beneficial in
       | itself, but also beneficial in understand the ubiquitous Fourier
       | transform.
       | 
       | [0]: https://laurentrdc.xyz/posts/wavelet-filtering.html
        
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