kurtosis

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by kurtosis 17y ago
Nothing much I can add. I didn't know him personally, but I was a huge fan of Sam Roweis and I learned a lot from reading his papers. It's very sad to think that there won't be any more.
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by kurtosis 17y ago
My personal favorite is that there are approximately pi * 10^7 seconds in one year.
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by kurtosis 17y ago
Hey awesome, I saw some people from your group speak at a conference a while ago and I was really intrigued by this idea. Especially the idea of making superatom analogues of Alali-Halide crystals. i.e. taking closed shell Al cluster catio
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by kurtosis 17y ago
is there somewhere else where this convention is used? if the Id of the most recent post is an exponentially growing function of time then the time between any two posts should be proportional to the log of the ratio of their IDs.. so shoul
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Militants tracked by authorities through youtube comments(nytimes.com)
2 points by kurtosis 17y ago|0 comments
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by kurtosis 17y ago
This seems very impressive to me! I've been looking for something like this for a long time, but I'm a total idiot at javascript. What are the competing libraries, and how do they compare?
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by kurtosis 17y ago
What's a mystical experience? I find parapsych pretty interesting, but I've never heard of this, at least in the context of mainstream science.
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by kurtosis 17y ago
I agree with you nearly 100%, but why do you think the market fails to recognize the higher value of such a home?
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by kurtosis 17y ago
Sorry for asking, but what's "Shit's Easy Syndrome"?
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by kurtosis 17y ago
Maybe only sci/fi critics? Also I once tried to read their papers and it reminded me of experiences where I've tried to read lit-crit. There were some superficial stylistic similarities, between the two.
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by kurtosis 17y ago
I'm surprised that noone has mentioned the case of Igor and Grichka Bogdanov here. These were borderline literary theorists that actually did have a complete nonsense physics article published. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdanov_Affair
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by kurtosis 17y ago
If you follow the literature referenced in this recent blog post you should be able to find what you are looking for. Also pay close attention to the content of shalizi and newman's review article - there is a lot of notorious and well kno
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Power Laws in Chess Openings(physics.aps.org)
36 points by kurtosis 17y ago|3 comments
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by kurtosis 17y ago
Hey nice comment! I was thinking something similar.I believe that it should be possible to effectively use both mechanistic and teleological language. In mechanics you have newtonian (mechanistic) and lagrangian (teleological) approaches.
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by kurtosis 17y ago
This article never answered a very basic question: so evolution exiled man's balls from the body because sperm are temperature sensitive - but why didn't sperm just evolve to be less vulnerable to high temperatures? Anyone have a clue on
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by kurtosis 17y ago
If you download the FFTW http://www.fftw.org/ . At its heart is a OCaml program called genfft that generates optimized C fft routines for different window lengths by computing a good recursive decomposition and minimizing the number of ari
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by kurtosis 17y ago
I'm sure you could give productivity apps a feeling of exclusivity by tightly restricting membership based on some exclusive criteria e.g. wealth, edu background, zip code, etc. niche products aren't a bad thing if the niche is very rich A
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by kurtosis 17y ago
I guess if an art collector buys an "original" instead of a print there is a feeling that they actually "own" the painting - even though in terms of viewing a print is equivalent and possibly more durable than the original. How can you rest
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by kurtosis 17y ago
That's a very interesting observation. What do you mean by virtual products, "media"? Many people cultivate a taste for obscure food, music, movies, and literature. Surely some of the appeal of these obscure bands or movies has to do wit
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by kurtosis 17y ago
I can imagine some circumstances where the hierarchical structure of XML would be useful, but in just about every data processing job I've undertaken that involved XML my first step was to get rid of XML and convert it to something like .cs
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by kurtosis 17y ago
scipy.weave solved a lot of these types of problems for me. It allows you to place inline c++ (with access to the blitz library) it does the trick for those cases where expressing something as a matrix operation would be wasteful.
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by kurtosis 17y ago
Prosody is an important part of language, and any study which gives insight into how language acquisition works is valuable and could lead to many practical technologies. Although the headlines (as usual) appear to be going well beyond wha
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by kurtosis 17y ago
I think this is a very serious possible problem with this sort of system, but there are ways around it. The system could take everyone's whitelist and derive a "public whitelist" that it can use to filter articles and comments for people t
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by kurtosis 17y ago
This recent new yorker article gives some interesting background on wittgenstein's extremely neurotic (and intersting, of course) family. Apparently three of his four brothers committed suicide, as did one of his sister's husband. I pers
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by kurtosis 17y ago
I have a laptop harddrive that is about 5 years old. I backup to a USB drive every other day. It is inevitable that this drive will fail at some point. When is the optimal time to buy a replacement drive? I have always assumed that I sh
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by kurtosis 17y ago
See this is a great example - If I met you I would love to hear your story, but your modesty would make it unlikely that I would.
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by kurtosis 17y ago
A friend's boss went to harvard and stanford - We meet up with him a lot, and he can be relied on to name drop his alma mater s once every 2-5 minutes. At first I thought this was a little pretentious and phony but I've actually come to li
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by kurtosis 17y ago
Yeah this is pretty funny. I work with a guy who graduated from Moscow State University - this name has a kind of strange anti-prestige to it in the U.S. I always joke around with him about it. (This is a very prestigious Russian universi
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by kurtosis 17y ago
Yeah I agree - without any evidence I would expect it to be neutral. But I think that there is a pretty well documented tendency for people to be much more aggressive and extreme on online forums than there are in real life. (Similar to r
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by kurtosis 17y ago
Isn't it also possible that facebook could be used for the promotion of hate? An obvious and outstanding recent example was the recent quiz about whether the U.S. president should be killed. If you read about the balkans, (and more recentl

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