Archive for July, 2004

Transportation Futuristics

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An intuitive explanation of Bayesian reasoning

Eliezer Yudkowsky — Bayes’s Theorem for the curious and bewildered; an excruciatingly gentle introduction. Why does a mathematical concept generate this strange enthusiasm in its students? What is the so-called Bayesian Revolution now sweeping through the sciences, which claims to subsume even the experimental method itself as a special case? What is the secret that [...]

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Researchers create authentic sculpting software

CBC News — July 14, 2004.  “Researchers at the University of Buffalo have developed the new system, in which a user wearing a special glove sculpts a block of clay or other malleable material. The glove records the force exerted by and the position of the hand, as well as the speed of fingertip motion. [...]

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Words: Woe and Wonder

CBC — Essays on word usage.

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Zapato Productions intradimensional

Zapato Productions — Your source for conspiracies and other diversions: Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie, Belgium Doesn’t Exist!, The Truth About Black Psychalking, much more.

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