Cuteness for Christmas
Cute Overload. Enjoy!
My computer at home is down for some reason. That’s okay, because I have access to at three other unix accounts (that I can remember). I’m guessing that my failed attempt at installing an incompatible wireless card is the cause. I forgot to uninstall the faulty kernel module that made my machine crash intermittently, thinking [...]
Atheists can be so boring sometimes. Glib pronouncements of rationality seem to exhibit the same weak-mindedness witnessed among fundamentalists of other faiths. Atheists, instead of going to church, should devote their Sundays to studying the question of why religions (and related belief systems) arise at all. I, like most agnostics, will be watching Meet the [...]
Bring the cheer! And a completely different kind of cheer.
I am not ready to admit any particular fondness for SEED, the new science and culture magazine. I’ve read two issues so far with some reserved interest. I will admit, however, to an unabashed love for ScienceBlogs, two of which have been on my blog roll for awhile now.
So I’m in Boston now, and have been since December 9th. Without finals, my classwork ended early this semester. I’d feel a touch guilty for dropping my scholarly ambitions if UT offered a deferment option. A relatively secure funding package and one absentee student is the result of not doing so. Actually, with the exception [...]
1. How to Solve It: Modern Heuristics …we must first recognize that problems are the possessions of purpose-driven decision makers. 2. Topoi, the Categorial Analysis of Logic Abstraction begins with the recognition, through experience and examination of a number of specific situations, that certain phenomena occur repeatedly, that there are a number of common features, [...]
(Continued from post on preference elicitation below…) We can imagine several natural types of queries. For example, we can ask the bidder for her value when presented with some subset of goods x. The bidder would then return v(x) where v is the value function for the bidder we are currently querying. In computational learning [...]