This story begins with a comment from sigmaalgebra, an anonymous mathematician and avc regular. I appreciated Sigma’s explanation of theory enough to reproduce it here, because the discussion gets to the heart of estimation theory and it’s relationship with knowledge about statistical distributions.
Batuhan Bozkurt put together a surprisingly simple set of cellular automaton rules to create music. He calls it Otomata, or online music generative music instrument.
In this morning’s post I’ll touch on a topic I couldn’t immediately wrap my head around. I’ve run into the subject of Lambda calculus before, but ignored it for three reasons. (more…)
With little doubt each and every one of you arose this fine spring morning just as excited about hashing as myself. Like all interesting algorithms, the proud tradition of identifying effective hashing functions requires a mathematician’s razor mind and an artist’s subtle touch. If you know of anyone who has either of these attributes don’t hesitate to hold an image of them in your mind as you scan the rest of this article.
This morning I came across an inviting link on Hacker News, Nondeterminism, part of the Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days. There are a number of chapters which help new comers to Scheme dig in and get a feel for the language. This chapter discusses McCarthy’s amb operator, describes a rules based implementation, and offers several example applications. (more…)
Today’s post is inspired by an entrepreneur’s request for relevance signals, metrics, and algorithms for an under served market his team is targeting. I’ll generalize the suggestions I sent by email in the hopes that they’ll improve from critical review and serve a broader audience.
