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Fractals are unfair
February 13, 2012
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
January 29, 2012
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
January 22, 2012
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
January 17, 2012
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
January 16, 2012
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
January 13, 2012
Here’s a quick list of what I’m mildly obsessed about right now: Data analysis, large-scale inference, augmented cognition — labels…