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Mostly Polynomial: A brief note on different types of probability
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The Polynomial development news, interleaved with random stuff. Saturday, November 3, 2012. A brief note on different types of probability. Typing it up to reference in discussions; it is by no means a detailed overview). Leonard Savage, The foundations of statistics, 1954. The origin of the classical probability. When you throw a symmetrical 6-sided die, after sufficiently many bounces, the probability of getting one specific face is 1/6 . The probability as observer's belief. Inclusive (which it obtain...
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Mostly Polynomial: Yet another Pascal's Wager rebuttal
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The Polynomial development news, interleaved with random stuff. Sunday, March 17, 2013. Yet another Pascal's Wager rebuttal. Believe it or not, some people fall for this sort of scam, when its about saving the world from robot apocalypse. But you won't have the money any more because, well, you had your money just waiting to be grabbed by a hustler, and one of those took your money. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Strain patterns in plexiglass. Real time fractal editor update. Random stuff from 2008.
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Mostly Polynomial: Applied Irrationality vs Enrico Fermi
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The Polynomial development news, interleaved with random stuff. Sunday, April 21, 2013. Applied Irrationality vs Enrico Fermi. So, there's these folks that call themselves "rationalists". You may have seen them online. They refer to "Bayes" a lot, run paid "rationality workshops", collect money to save the world from skynet, and the like. You might begin to wonder, what do they actually know about rationality? Is one of such pieces where the rationalism can actually be tested against facts. And Rabi said...
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Mostly Polynomial: Download pages back online
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The Polynomial development news, interleaved with random stuff. Wednesday, August 1, 2012. Download pages back online. The download pages (for those who purchased Polynomial via Plimus) should be back online. Unfortunately I lost the list of manual activations for the Steam customers, but I'm working on better integration with Steam anyway and it will be possible to download Linux version if you bought Polynomial from Steam. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Strain patterns in plexiglass.
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Mostly Polynomial: Algorithmic probability: an explanation for programmers
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The Polynomial development news, interleaved with random stuff. Tuesday, February 5, 2013. Algorithmic probability: an explanation for programmers. Suppose you do a double slit experiment. Using low luminosity light source, and a night vision device for the viewer. You see a flash of light - a photon has hit the detector. Then you see another flash of light. If you draw the flashes on grid paper you will, over the time, see something like this image on the right:. An 1023 bit demo will appear twice - fol...
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Mostly Polynomial: Got to love Torvalds
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The Polynomial development news, interleaved with random stuff. Saturday, August 11, 2012. Got to love Torvalds. Because that shows that they don't understand what the whole *point* of the kernel was after all. We're not masturbating around with some research project. We never were. Even when Linux was young, the whole and only point was to make a *usable* system. It's why it's not some crazy drug-induced microkernel or other random crazy thing. October 18, 2012 at 4:57 PM. November 5, 2012 at 8:52 PM.
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Mostly Polynomial: Ion chamber
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The Polynomial development news, interleaved with random stuff. Tuesday, July 31, 2012. Ion chamber is an ionizing radiation detector that detects the radiation by measuring electrical conductivity of air (or other gas). I’ve built one:. In that video, I used old radium clock to test it. I wrapped the clock in plastic to ensure that the radioactive dust would not get out in the event that I accidentally drop it and break the glass - cleaning up radioactive dust can spoil your entire day. Spam or not spam.
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Mostly Polynomial: On Kurzweil's estimates of computer power required for mind uploading
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The Polynomial development news, interleaved with random stuff. Wednesday, January 2, 2013. On Kurzweil's estimates of computer power required for mind uploading. Common transhumanist estimates of computing power necessary for mind uploading. Strike me as extreme low-ball figures. There are voltage-gated ion channels, and a lot, lot more. The neurons have to be simulated compartment by compartment. FLOPS to simulate human brain. 10. January 26, 2013 at 8:49 AM. June 5, 2013 at 5:03 PM. Force polygons of ...
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Mostly Polynomial: New feature: real-time editing.
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The Polynomial development news, interleaved with random stuff. Friday, June 5, 2009. New feature: real-time editing. Real-time view while editing, and natural number adjustment (feels like turning a knob). Due to be released soon - check my site. On Friday evening (European time). You either spin your scroll-wheel over parameter, or you right-drag and spin the mouse in circles around it. Really great for adjustments. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Strain patterns in plexiglass. Spam or not spam.
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Mostly Polynomial: June 2013
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The Polynomial development news, interleaved with random stuff. Wednesday, June 26, 2013. Nice Hack-a-Day review of my MicroGeiger - a circuit that connects a Geiger tube to the headset jack of your mobile phone in place of the microphone, and software to use it. My hobby project (open source Geiger counter hardware software for Android) got a nice mention on Hack-a-Day:. Here's my page about the project. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Strain patterns in plexiglass. Real time fractal editor update.
