Sifting through my Akismet spam filter today I noticed a number of comments in Cyrillic. Clicking the associated website links led me to Russian language default themed WordPress blogs. It seems like splogs are easy to identify, even when written in another language. [Aside: Even though I'm 99% sure these are spam blogs, and so [...]
When I was growing up my parents went through some lengths to make sure that I was well-rounded. The term well-rounded seemed to signify a kind of suburban trivium of sports, music, and various other school activities, though upon repetition, lost any kind of original meaning and because something more like an abstract concept — [...]
I’ve been reading up on graph cuts methods for low-level vision. These are methods that, when properly applied, can de-noise an image as was done in the original paper: D. M. Greig, B. T. Porteous, and A. H. Seheult, “Exact maximum a posteriori estimation for binary images,” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B [...]
What about the New York Times Op-Ed page turns conservatives into blithering idiots? A movie review? Really? Healthcare, recession, unemployment, and two overseas conflicts and this is what Douthat chooses to write about? Telling I suppose, in its own peculiar way. UPDATE: The column seems well received elsewhere. I don’t necessarily agree with these. For [...]