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I love Clauset, Shalizi, and Newman for keeping up this fight. Even if you agree with them, you still have to include a linear regression in your paper to satisfy reviewers. I was …

I just saw Jeff Hawkins give a talk and it was quite interesting. I was a bit worried, however, that he is basing his theory of intelligence on the human neocortex, while claiming …

For vim, I just open an unnamed buffer (:new). I think this is exactly the same as the scratch buffer in emacs.

I can't imagine using this for real. Perception is so much more parallel than that. If I see char *(*fp)(int) I see that it matches the pattern returntype *(*function)(args) It's t…

I think that decade is now. Brains work nothing like computers. Well, as much as they do like plumbing systems ;)

Eye tracker hardware is tricky and therefore usually expensive, but on the software side there are good tools. I've used VisionEgg[0] with an Eyelink II system and found it quite e…

I remember seeing a shift in CS student populations, say around 1999, from people who already had a self-developed interest in computing to people who wanted to learn programming a…

If this is about weird/vulgar statements with FACEBOOK.COM in the name, they exist for just about every big domain. Whois queries return results for subdomain matches.

fMRI: Modern day phrenology

I found "Linear Algebra Done Right" to be a much more intuitive introduction to the subject. It doesn't get to determinants until the end. http://linear.axler.net/ After going thro…