A mostly blank slate
The combination of a tablet and a good Javascript framework makes it very easy to deploy algorithms to places where…
Praefatio — now with a bookmarklet
Improved a bit my stack-oriented Wikipedia reading tool, Praefatio. Still not-even-alpha, of course, but it’s usable enough for me. Itch…
The perfectly rational conspiracy theorist
Conspiracy theorists don’t have a rationality problem, they have a priors problem, which is a different beast. Consider a rational…
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…