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The FaceAPI Seeing is believing http://www.seeingmachines.com/faceAPI.html
by rolandk (2008.08.18, 11:19)
Groops Groops - at first glance - seems a pure, extremly well crafted Group Forming...
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Brads Open Web Brad Neuberg defines interoperability for the Web. A wise decision to take...
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The Linda Problem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunction_fallacy Note for my brain: need to read more into Prospect Theory
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The fallacy of a "technical" Domain Model Today I came to the notion of a...
by rolandk (2008.07.22, 20:01)
the ToC looks interesting indeed
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Junkfood harms! [...] he said he has wife and seven kids to support [...] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPgpYux8HJQ
by rolandk (2008.07.18, 16:43)
That one looks quite interesting as well: http://www.labyrinthbooks.com/sale_detail.aspx?isbn=9780521388849 Via Cosma Shalizi; in case your...
by chris (2008.07.16, 21:51)
Wunder Crafts My collegue is able to write emails a bayesian filter recognizes as Spam.
by rolandk (2008.07.16, 14:59)
Theories of Probability in the 20th Century, Part II Pre-WWI Cambridge was a highly influential...
by rolandk (2008.07.12, 12:53)

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Theories of Probability in the 20th Century, Part II
Pre-WWI Cambridge was a highly influential intellectual center in the first half 20th century with strong mathematical bias, due to people like Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein and John Maynard Keynes. The later, famous for his leftist economic theory compiled in the opus magnum 'The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money'; did not only ground Roosevelts 'New Deal' or the European social market economy, but contributed with his 'Treatise on Probability' to modern probability what is now known as The logical Theory.
Keynes believes that that logical relations can be applied to probability events, so that fundamental problems of induction in probability (e.g. a black swan) can be solved. Probability is a degree of partially entailment of a hypothesis. From the observation of all swans, they were all white, follows partially and to a certain degree that all swans are white.
Interestingly Keynes does not believe that the degree of entailment is always computable, on the contrary probabilities might not comparable at all:
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0 represents impossibility, 1 certainty, and A a numerically measurable probability intermediate between 0 and 1; U, V, W, X, Y, Z are non-numerical probabilities, of which, however, V is less than the numerical probability A, and is also less than W, X, and Y. X and Y are both greater than W, and greater than V, but are not comparable with one another, or with A. V and Z are both less than W, X, and Y, but are not comparable with one another; U is not quantitatively comparable with any of the probabilities V, W, X, Y, Z.
Keynes 'A Treatise on Probability' 1921:39

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Erlang - the movie
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