Fairly intuitive, but there are certain days and times during which ideas just flow freely to you – and others that are completely dry. It’s not evenly distributed.
(But if you queue them, you can just pull things off of the queue when you can’t think of anything).
The more valuable bills are always lost first.
I wonder what happened to my $20 bills today, but whatever it was, it spared my 5s.
Couldn’t you keep both with a fairly minimal degree of storage space simply by using either warping algorithms (and storing the deformation parameters) or retargeting whichever is the higher resolution image on the fly?
You can render a surface as a multidimensional analogue of an ROC curve for multi-class classification problems.
This one was already done: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10803724
It seems that every successive time I seek to advertise something on AdWords, the number of clicks in a given time period increases drastically, but the number of actual conversions brought about from those clicks drops (even for ads targeted to only attract clickers who have a high chance of converting). This means I keep paying more for worse results.
AdWords has become completely useless to me by this time, and I am no longer going to use it.
That seems to be a trend at Google: start out with great products, then let them decay until they are worthless.
It is comforting to occasionally stumble upon the site of another who shares my philosophy, unique as it is. In this case, the site is “Filling a Much Needed Void”, a blog by Hanne Blank. Specifically, I’d like to point readers to the post entitled The Renaissance Woman, which is mostly a summary of many of the major issues that those of us wishing to be polymaths end up facing. Particularly poignant is her attention to the problem of perceived arrogance: doing so many things successfully intimidates people, and is therefore Bad (because many people are apparently very sensitive about their intellectual prowess and view any potential superiority as an affront, arrogance of this sort has come to be regarded as one of the most heinous personal failings, even though it is really a base trait required to advance society in significant ways. Oddly enough, I would say that most polymaths, whom you’d expect to have the most reason to guard their own intellectual self-efficacy, are not nearly so sensitive, instead looking forward to the chance to learn from superior intellects).
Coincidentally, her blog even has the same theme that mine does.
I would anyone looking to eventually become a polymath to read her article. It’s helpful to know the social forces you’re up against in advance.
This question has been brewing in my mind for quite some time, but I don’t really know enough about how fractal/Hausdorff dimension is computed to answer it. If they can, it might be possible to obtain good compression for certain types of datasets using this property.
Has anyone ever ran fMRI or other brain imaging scans on people while engaged in the state called creative “flow” and compared it to the state of performing less involving tasks? The closest I’ve found is an imaging study on jazz improv.
This is the first day I’ve had to myself in over a week of commuting 3 hours back and forth to the lab. Due to the frequency of my commute, I’ve noticed an additional problem with the concept of an office: it creates a “work vs. life” dichotomy.
I’m normally involved in some form of intellectual inquiry just about all of the time. That used to include my doctoral research. However, now that my advisor expects me back in the lab on a regular basis, I’ve come to think of my home days as “days off”, and have come to save my research-related activities for days in which I end up in the lab. Since, as I have stated previously, I am already less productive in the lab due to nothing more than a mismatched environment and a long commute, this has the effect of reducing my productivity in the only place in which it persisted: my home. In other words, I’d be much more efficient across the board if I did not have to make this commute on a regular basis.
It applies to the office as well. One only needs to look at a family’s typical weekend activities to see this. If we could all work from home, home would become the workplace. Instead, we’ve sharply defined places in which work is done and in which it is not.
The effect of the economy on the restaurant industry is interesting, to say the least.