malvasian links

Jan 26

Strategy, Tactics, and Turnovers < PopMatters

Hmm, I’ll have to think about this analogy.

Jan 24

Salvaging the TK Bremen - In Focus - The Atlantic

Pretty cool series of photos.

Jan 22

“So maybe, instead of waiting for the MPAA’s next law and changing our Twitter avatars for a few days in protest, it would be more productive to significantly reduce or eliminate our support of the MPAA member companies starting today, and start supporting campaign finance reform.” The next SOPA – Marco.org

“The combined distribution of heights of men and women has become the canonical illustration of bimodality when teaching introductory statistics. But is this example appropriate? This article investigates the conditions under which a mixture of two normal distributions is bimodal. A simple justification is presented that a mixture of equally weighted normal distributions with common standard deviation σ is bimodal if and only if the difference between the means of the distributions is greater than 2σ. More generally, a mixture of two normal distributions with similar variability cannot be bimodal unless their means differ by more than approximately the sum oftheirstandard deviations. Examination of national survey data on young adults shows that the separation between the distributions of men’s and women’s heights is not wide enough to produce bimodality. We suggest reasons why histograms of height nevertheless often appear bimodal.” Is Human Height Bimodal? - The American Statistician - 56(3):223

Answer to What is it like to have an understanding of very advanced mathematics? - Quora

Good answer.

Back to Work #49: The Field of Completion

I could have done without most of the Star Wars talk at the start, but there’s really interesting stuff on bias and focus in the second half.

Jan 20

Courtney Love does the math - Salon.com

The article is almost 12 years old, but the RIAA hasn’t changed.

“Microsoft has jumped onto the free-to-play bandwagon with its latest game, a text-driven adventure called Visual Studio 2010. The innovative new game marries the traditional interactive fiction text adventure with its arcane commands and exploration with the free-form, open-ended gaming pioneered by the likes of SimCity.” Microsoft keeps it old-school with a pricey text adventure game, Visual Studio 2010

Jan 17

Been building up a bit of a backlog of K-pop videos to watch, but this one reminds me why they’re there…

ash-panic:

T-ARA sweatpant practice performances are the fuckin best: they’re super confident in the choreography. Everything just plain POPs.

I take back what I said about the Lovey Dovey choreography being shitty.

Tales From the Crypt

Glad Janice Kim is blogging. And I was pleasantly surprised to see that the go widget works on the iPad.