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november 01, 2006
Dagslänkar 2006-11-01
Klimatbloggen http://klimat.wordpress.com/2006/10/31/mediastorm-kring-bra-data/ om (påstådda) förändringar i golfströmmen. Diskussioner t.ex. på RealClimate.
Vetenskapsnytt: Rätt fokus ger bra målvakt
Point of Inquiry: CFI’s 10th Annual Houdini Seance - Halloween 2006
In this bonus episode of Point of Inquiry for Halloween night 2006, Joe Nickell, the world’s leading paranormal investigator and CSICOP’s senior research fellow, and D.J. Grothe (both of whom are former professional magicians) conduct CFI’s 10th Annual Houdini Seance. They also explore Houdini’s experiences as a “magician among the spirits,” recount the ways he challenged the mediums of his day, and discuss his lasting impact on skepticism and society’s beliefs about the afterlife.
Wired: Face Blind, via
Mind Hacks: Wired Magazine has an article on a curious condition known as prosopagnosia where affected individuals cannot recognise people by their faces, despite being able to recognise and distinguish everyday objects with little trouble....
Telegraph: How to be funny , via Mind Hacks.
Cf: Vitsen - en webbessä.
Low-complexity modular policies: learning to play Pac-Man and a new framework beyond MDPs:
In this paper we propose a method that learns to play Pac-Man...
Michael C. LaBarbera: The Biology of B-Movie Monsters, via Improbable Research
Seed Magazine: The Proof is in the Blogging, via Not Even Wrong.
Fortsättningen på den långa diskussion om ett matematiskt paper där paper-författaren snabbt tillkännagör att artikeln är felaktig och drog tillbaka den för komplettering.
Forecast of the 2006 U.S. House Election
If the U.S. Senate Elections were held on 01-Nov-2006...
Via Social Science Statistics Blog
Paul Ekman How to Spot a Terrorist on the Fly, via Deception Blog.
Ivars Peterson: Designer Decimals: Fractions can yield amazingly familiar decimal expansions.-
Posted by hakank at november 1, 2006 10:44 EM Posted to Diverse vetenskap