Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
Monday, March 16th, 2009
I have been trying to find anything of importance to report about in the media industry for a while. I mean, really trying. However, it seems that nothing that interesting is going on, apart from multitudes of cost cuts, layoffs and abysmal quarterly reports. As it seems to me, this ...
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Sunday, January 25th, 2009
It's been a while since anything that really has caught my eye has been happening in the science department. However, this week I came across two very interesting pieces in my Google Reader.
First, New Scientist had an article about an anomaly found in the cosmic microwave background. In essence, there ...
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Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Scientific American has a nice article about human perception. The article kind of resonates with my earlier writing on bayesian statistics that the brain seems to conform to. Anyway, I recommend the article as it really gives some food for thought.
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Some time ago there was an interesting article in New Scientist, about new theory on how human brain works. It turns out that high level brain functions can be modeled using Bayesian statistics and the brain in fact uses statistical data from prior experiences to predict the current sensory input. ...
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
I'm currently going through a massive pile of books since I've had not that much free time at hand. However, I thought I could share a few of the books I'm reading that I find most interesting at the moment, so here we go.
Michael Lockwood: The Labyrinth of Time. This ...
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