07/26/2008
Out of Print Math Books
There is a new site, outofprintmath, that is collecting information on which out-of-print books the mathematical reading public would like to see brought back in print. At the moment there are 67 books listed, many of them are surprisingly well-known. I...
~ published: 07/26 at 23:34 ~ source: Ars Mathematica ~ permalink ~ points: 0
Satellites Discover What Triggers Eruptions of the Northern Lights
What causes the shimmering, ethereal Northern Lights to suddenly brighten and dance in a spectacular burst of colorful light and rapid movement? To find out, NASA launched a fleet of five satellites called THEMIS, the Time History of Events and Macroscale...
~ published: 07/26 at 17:04 ~ source: Science Blog - Think. It's not illegal yet. ~ permalink ~ points: 0
Organizing the "idea marketplace"
Sabine Hossenfelder (BackReaction) has written some extended thoughts about the "marketplace of ideas" in science, and some of the ways it may have gone wrong. Her thoughts are focused on her field, theoretical physics, but many of them will app...
~ published: 07/26 at 15:33 ~ source: John Hawks Anthropology Weblog ~ permalink ~ points: 0
The Fibonacci Numbers, Coalgebraicaly
> {-# LANGUAGE TypeSynonymInstances #-}What kind of Haskell programmer can I call myself if I haven't written a fiendishly complex piece of code to inefficiently compute the Fibonacci numbers. Unfortunately, what follows isn't particularly fiendish...
~ published: 07/26 at 15:29 ~ source: A Neighborhood of Infinity ~ permalink ~ points: 0
Skype backdoor
I knew it was too good to be true! As a for-profit company, Skype/EBay eventually had to cave in to spook pressure and allow for eavesdropping. In fact, the back door might have been in from the beginning.Heise online: According to reports, there may be a...
~ published: 07/26 at 13:12 ~ source: Information Processing ~ permalink ~ points: 0
Blogging Heads Science Saturday
Today’s “Science Saturday” on Bloggingheads features me and Sabine Hossenfelder, supposedly talking about What’s wrong with string theory. Actually, we both agreed that we were pretty tired of that topic, so tried to discuss some ...
~ published: 07/26 at 10:21 ~ source: Not Even Wrong ~ permalink ~ points: 0
Compositional Machine Learning Algorithm Design
There were two papers at ICML presenting learning algorithms for a contextual bandit-style setting, where the loss for all labels is not known, but the loss for one label is known. (The first might require a exploration scavenging viewpoint to understan...
~ published: 07/26 at 09:44 ~ source: Machine Learning (Theory) ~ permalink ~ points: 0