Information Theory Primer With an Appendix on Logarithms Postscript version: ftp://ftp.ncifcrf.gov/pub/delila/primer.ps web versions: http://www.lecb.ncifcrf.gov/toms/paper/primer/
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Ebay's policy of throwing up ads for almost any Google search query includes ads suggesting that you can get 'Enriched Uranium' there.link » tags: [weird] posted via Wists: permamark
Ansarullah Mawlafizada, Afghan trial judge: "Islam is a religion of peace, tolerance, kindness and integrity. That is why we have told him if he regrets what he did, then we will forgive him," … and if not he will be murdered.link » tags: [religion] posted via Wists: permamark
I've been looking for something like this for ages. Seems like Mahattan real estate is totally screwed.link » tags: [maps] posted via Wists: permamark
"The artist took 10 days to create the mini-masterpiece using a single rabbit hair as a paintbrush."link » tags: [weird] posted via Wists: permamark
Craig Newmark has a proposal to counter Goodmail. craigblog: a big advance for spam and phishing fighting? The problem with Craig’s proposal – that authorized, digitally signed email passes through spam filters – is that it doesn’t create a sender ‘cost’. This therefore cannot be a true cure against spam, since spam is a product of almost zero cost for the sender. As we are seeing, costs are always introduced in any marketplace, and with email being free to send, the self-emergent cost, in dealing with spam, is passed to the receiver. The postal service did not grow exponentially until it switched from a receiver to a sender pays model, and US cellphone use lags other developed nations because both call sender and recipients pay. If neither sender and recipient pay, as with email it seems that the recipient ends up paying. So the Goodmail solution plays into the way…
The total output growth of the global economy "in just the three years from 1995 to 1998 is estimated to have been greater than the total growth in the 10,000 years before 1900".link » tags: [books]
When I got home this evening, my wife was all happy because she had made a CD for a work colleague’s parents. They had to be conferenced in on a call so they could play a sample to find out who a song was by, they liked it so much. Whereas I had been writing the misanthropic anti-religious rant below. Sometimes I am such a miserable git. So I’ve put a strike through the post – and am listening to the CD, and its making me happy. When others do stupid things in computing people say RTFM – read the fucking manual. For some people the bible is their manual but they clearly haven’t read it. CNN has a piece on mutual funds run by religious extremists which pose as ‘socially conscious investing’ a phenomenon which originated with anti-Apartheid groups. These funds, such as the Timothy Plan, have strange priorities….
More evidence that religion in America is a potentially dangerous disease: “Today’s atheists play the role that Catholics, Jews and communists have played in the past they offer a symbolic moral boundary to membership in American society” “From a telephone sampling of more than 2,000 households, university researchers found that Americans rate atheists below Muslims, recent immigrants, gays and lesbians and other minority groups in
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