December 2010
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Works of Fiction with Really Stupid Titles Involving the National Socialist Government of Germany 1933-1945
Dec 30th
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Ben Goldacre Talks Bad Science
Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 25th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative... →
Once upon a time, the US Army wanted to use neural networks to automatically detect camouflaged enemy tanks. The researchers trained a neural net on 50 photos of camouflaged tanks in trees, and 50 photos of trees without tanks. Using standard techniques for supervised learning, the researchers trained the neural network to a weighting that correctly loaded the training set -...
Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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Occam's Razor →
Occam’s Razor is often phrased as “The simplest explanation that fits the facts.” Robert Heinlein replied that the simplest explanation is “The lady down the street is a witch; she did it.”
Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
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Douglas Crockford: The State and Future of JavaScript
Dec 12th
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Haskell Researchers Announce Discovery of Industry... →
Dec 11th
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Dec 10th
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WikiLeaks cables are dispatches from a beleaguered... →
Probably the most interesting commentary on the diplomatic cable leak that I’ve read this far. It’s refreshingly neither bashing Wikileaks, Julian Assange or the US.
Dec 9th
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Dec 8th
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The culture that is Sweden →
The Swedish consumer ombudsman has won a case against L’Oréal Sweden, which means that firm has to provide proof in order to claim in advertising that its face creams can reduce or remove wrinkles. previously
Dec 7th
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Douglas Crockford - Loopage
Dec 6th
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Photos from rios drug war →
Dec 4th
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Dec 3rd
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“For people who enjoy swearing at their computer, Bastet (short for Bastard...”
– Bastet homepage citing http://hublog.hubmed.org
Dec 2nd
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Dec 1st
November 2010
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“This is hard, and maybe a yak barber shop quartet. But it’s a neat idea.”
– Isaac Z. Schlueter, on a neat idea.
Nov 30th