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Since you did the hard work of parsing rich metadata already, it would be even cooler if your network visualization oriented nodes by some of this information. Here the 'hiveplot' …

Agreed, idiosyncratic voice is so life- and mind- affirming in papers. (Do you mind sharing examples of three papers that you did enjoy slowly and change your conceptual life?)

For those in (or soon traveling to) Southern California, the LA County Museum of Art is now featuring a lovely computer art exhibit that includes physical outputs from Harold Cohen…

"When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine." — Picasso. ^Culture is…

Tao is likely inviting us (just as many physical/probabilistic laws do) to view any arbitrary function as relatively "thicker"/"fuzzier" than an infinitely-thin, infinitely-tall sp…

While possible, the notion that asymptomatic[†] cases are due to a separate less-pathogenic strain is both indeed a possibility researchers are thinking about, and yet also not (a …

Lest others also experience HN's hug-of-death of the original source, Google's cached version ( https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bkjo_-... ) works as interim a…

This article presumes the premise that "what you love"/"your passion" is the same as "what you can love"/the set of all "passions" you have not yet discovered. This is untrue. Espe…

This is a richly intriguing phenomenon, with interesting implications! For those interested in reading more, this article (on stochastic resonance's potential importance in biologi…

Thanks for your sharing your thoughts! > One missing ingredient is a probabilistic model of the thing you're imaging Ooh, this (making the prior for the true image signal more info…

Your work with ML and images sounds incredible! Do you have a link (e.g. on arxiv or elsewhere) that describes your approach using ML for image reconstruction in greater detail? Ho…

Woohoo, thank you!

The probability that an average entrepreneur succeeds might indeed be assessed fairly by observing that only one entrepreneur in a hundred ever reaches the 1% of wealth or impact. …

It was the American physicist Albert Michelson (the creator of the beautiful Michelson interferometer design which enabled very precise measurements of the speed of light) who said…

Instead of short selling an equity (which is indeed complicated not so much in its difficulty but in its potentially unlimited downside), you can buy a put option. For the cost of …

It is a good idea! Another excellent editable wiki for proofs has existed for some time: https://www.proofwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page It is nice to see growth in this fertile space.

This project sounds very interesting! I'd also love to hear more about any details you make available. Thanks for the reference to the wavelet transform--it is nice to consider a c…