He's a good bloke as far as I know, he's my former landlady's son. He does post his fair share of inane crap to facebook though.
They say everyone is entitled to be happy.....walk a mile in my shoes and you'll forget all about happiness Has only 1 like: himself
Happy fourth of July. Glad to live in the best country on Earth as the back to back world war champions. Can't wait to drink beer and eat fresh tri tip today!!! Have a happy and safe fourth! Also, happy fourth to all my brothers putting in work overseas. Stay safe!
haha to all you college grads... chances are your still a stupid asshole, despite your political science degree.....
What are patterns? I have yet to come across a stronger claim than this: "Patterns are what are represented by ε-machines, and ... we discover them by ε-machine reconstruction." (Shalizi and Crutchfield 2001: 855.) It's a boast, to be sure, but not an idle boast: "Our first theorem showed that the causal states are maximally prescient; our second, that they are the simplest way of representing the pattern of maximum strength; our third theorem, that they are unique in having this double optimality." (Ibid.: 853.) In natural language, this means that, if there is a causal structure in a data set, ε-machines will (a) find it, and (b) describe it exhaustively in the most compact terms while preserving the greatest predictive accuracy. Further, there is nothing that can optimize both compactness and predictive accuracy to the same degree that ε-machines do. Compactness is the most interesting property. Think of it as the property of having the fewest possible assumptions: "as much as possible, the goal is to let the process [i.e. the object of inquiry] describe itself, on its own terms, without appealing to a priori assumptions about the process's structure" (ibid.: 832). So what does all of this mean? In case I haven't made it clear enough, the ε-machine is the physical equivalent of a philosophical criterion of reality -- bar none. Source: Shalizi, C. R., and Crutchfield, J. P. (2001). Computational mechanics: Pattern and prediction, structure and simplicity. Journal of Statistical Physics 104(3/4): 817-879.
Anyone know where I can get a legit sea sponge and some exotic soaps? I'm trying to take my bathing game to the next level.
A mother, to her ~6 month old child crying in the checkout line at Target: "If you don't hush, I'm going to punch you right in the forehead. Do you WANT one of these knuckle sandwiches?!" Me: "I don't think she's old enough for solid food."
