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Awesome statistics from OKCupid
I like numbers, I like graphs, I like online dating. (Not that I've done in more than a year)
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Worst TED talk ever?
Does the graph of 5 people, with 5 choose 2 = 10 connections bug you when he says 120? What about when he shows 10 people, with 10 choose 2 = 45 connections, and then says 10 factorial is approximately 3.6 million? Does it irk you that he never actually describes what an "interaction" is? Skip to 6 minutes and 30 seconds if you are lazy or bored ( Read more... ) -
Funny and insulting correlation
Someone had the idea to look at people's favorite books and bands and correlate that with the average SAT score of the university that the person attended. The details are here. -
Larry started a board gaming blog
The name, Board Game Holic is probably quite fitting for me ;).
My first article written reasons about winning the all abilities goal in a probabilistic manner. And who doesn't like a combination of probability, Race for the Galaxy, and dynamic programming? -
A little bit of bragging
The picture is not nearly as bad as I expected. But maybe that's just because I am used to looking at my currently insanely unkempt hair.
The report for the 2008 Race for the Galaxy World Boardgaming Championship has been posted. -
A nifty little election time dynamic program
Take a look at xkcd's election predictor. It scrapes a bunch of election outcome probabilities per state from intrade and uses them to provide a prediction for the overall election. It does so by using a Monte Carlo simulation, given the probabilities, it runs a mock election assuming each state outcome is independent a whole bunch of times with ( Read more... ) -
TrainLogic, you suck
I was in New Brunswick and I wanted to know when the next train was this Sunday. As anyone with a blackberry knows, the New Jersey transit website sucks on the blackberry browser. So I install this blackberry app from TrainLogic that seems useful ( Read more... ) -
[Gamers-ny] Rob "Crackhead" Renaud Wins RftG World Championship, Positively Reinforces Addiction
Rob's reign as world-champion was, however, short-lived. Peter Schmitt, yesterday, with his masterful employ of the dreaded Galatic Federation / Trade League combo, served Rob a slice of humble pie. The price for this delicious mocel of baked good: Rob's RftG World Championship Belt. Down, but not out, Rob has pledged to remain addicted to RftG ( Read more... ) -
A favorable ratio
I am not looking, and even if I was, perhaps a Kimya Dawson/Ani DiFranco concert isn't the best place to find straight women, but this is impressive. These are people who have confirmed they are going to the concert on iLike.
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