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“Now, hurry up and patent Bayesian nonlinear regression before they do it.”
posted 2 days ago in math, law8 views | 3 jaas | reply )
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"I was stunned," Schipke says. "It was like finding a picture of Bill Gates in the Dead Sea Scrolls. The colophon [the title page] named the copyist as Udo of Aachen, and I just had to find out more about more...
posted 3 months ago in math, history111 views | 20 jaas | 3 saves | 1 reply )
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“And now I’ve got an an even more thorough explanation of Monty Hall problems and of the psychological processes that allow us to get suckered”.
posted 2 months ago in psychology26 views | 6 jaas | 1 save | 1 reply )
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 by joe
posted 3 months ago in math, xkcd102 views | 10 jaas | 2 replies )
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Binary adding machine - marbles+wood = supercomputer
posted 5 months ago in machinery, binary38 views | 14 jaas | 2 saves | 1 reply )
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“"fast multipole method" developed for computational physics to rapidly estimate (to arbitrary precision) the conjugate gradient of an error function. (In other words, they tweak the parameters and "get a little better" the next time through the training data.)”
posted 2 weeks ago in physics, math, ai15 views | 7 jaas | 2 saves | reply )
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posted 3 days ago in math, hacker-news8 views | 1 jaa | reply )
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Electric Sheep is a free, open source screen saver run by thousands of people all over the world. It can be installed on any ordinary PC or Mac. When these computers "sleep", the screen saver comes on and the computers more...
posted 3 months ago in screen-saver, computers, graphics30 views | 3 jaas | 2 tags | 3 replies )
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Numbering a list is a journalistic rule so obvious even E! understands it. But TIME's editors won't stoop to rank the TIME 100. No, they're afraid of hurting people's feelings or making a mistake. So, much like changing the watercooler more...
posted 2 months ago in math, lists, politics16 views | 2 jaas | reply )
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Need help with math?
posted 3 months ago in kids, youtube37 views | 6 jaas | 1 save | reply )
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Three gods A, B, and C are called, in some order, True, False, and Random. True always speaks truly, False always speaks falsely, but whether Random speaks truly or falsely is a completely random matter. Your task is to determine more...
posted 4 months ago in math, logic, weird287 views | 40 jaas | 7 saves | 1 reply )
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The Monty Hall Problem has struck again, and this time it’s not merely embarrassing mathematicians. If the calculations of a Yale economist are correct, there’s a sneaky logical fallacy in some of the most famous experiments in psychology.
posted 2 months ago in psychology, cogsci29 views | 8 jaas | 1 tag | 2 saves | reply )

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