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Ah, the good old BLUE (Best linear unbiased estimator). Had this in statistics and really really liked the proof.

After a lot of discussions with my girlfriend about global warming we are still wondering what we can do to help fight the problem. Some Background: There's evidence [0] that we wi…

I recently read the Shannon biography 'A Mind at Play' [0] which I guess is the full version of the article (same authors). It does (IMHO) a very good job at explaining entropy / i…

There are some papers from Prof. Braun describing experiments where he uses mutations from genetic / evolutionary algorithms to find the optimal structure of a neural net.

They write in the text that their model featured nonlinear transformations. I think the picture shows a simplified view and as the plots don't have labels it's not clear which spac…

I'm using ZFS on my home server. The backups of my main system are created with the ubuntu desktop utility and written to the server via NFS. This means I have incremental backups …