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Fractals are unfair

Let’s say you want to identify an arbitrary point in a segment $$I$$ (chosen with an uniform probability distribution). A…

A way to read Wikipedia

I’ve just put online Praefatio, a very simple web tool to help read Wikipedia articles in a more structured way….

A modest, if egocentric, proposal

We need the equivalent of /lib, /usr/lib, and /usr/local/lib for semantic knowledge. At this point in time, it makes no…

Men’s bathrooms are (quantum-like) universal computers

As it’s well documented, men choose urinals to maximize their distance from already occupied urinals. Letting $$u_i$$ be 1 or…

A quick look at Elance statistics

I collected data from Elance feeds, in order to find what employers are looking for on the site. It’s not…

First post: what I’m interested on these days

Here’s a quick list of what I’m mildly obsessed about right now: Data analysis, large-scale inference, augmented cognition — labels…