What’s it called when a little donut passes through a bigger donut?
Digestion.
Archive for February, 2008
28 Feb
Our Topological Brethren
17 Feb
4 AM Math Post Anyone?
Suppose two random variables and have a discrete joint distribution , for some real constant C. Suppose we want to find the moment-generating function for this distribution when and .
By definition, the MGF of this distribution is , where the function represents the expected value. Since its a discrete distribution, we [...]
7 Feb
Wounds Are Designed for Bleeding
Mike Dunford over at The Questionable Authority writes about the rejection of the Discovery Princetitute blog from ResearchBlogging.org. He made one excellent point (among many) that deserves to be fondled lovingly. In a totally platonic way, of course. Unless you’re parents aren’t around. Then it’s totally cool. Uh.. anyway.
He writes:
The scientific community’s distaste for [...]
6 Feb
The Copyright Kerfluffle @ ResearchBlogging
The blogodome has been all in a kerfluffle over the latest Perfunctory Institute episode involving Casey Luskin and his crow-eating behavior concerning copyright infringement. Specifically, Luskie apparently took an image off of ResearchBlogging (or his “friend gave it to him”) without permission and he used it to “web log” about some essay in some biology [...]
6 Feb
A Special Case
My statistics professor told a joke today that, while relatively funny, is also a bit interesting too. It goes like this:
A math professor is proving some general theorem, and ends up with a result involving ’s and ’s. One student raises his hand and asks, “Can you show us a special case of that theorem?”. [...]
3 Feb
Fracking Fractals
I found this amusing description while scouring my feedreader today:
fractal wrongness
The state of being wrong at every conceivable scale of resolution. That is, from a distance, a fractally wrong person’s worldview is incorrect; and furthermore, if you zoom in on any small part of that person’s worldview, that part is just [...]
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