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03-01-2013 , 12:36 AM

#926

ganstaman

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Originally Posted by Hector Cerif

Can someone please start a new thread that's better than the garbage out there right now please?

Don't know if it's better but I got something coming up.

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03-01-2013 , 12:39 AM

#927

Hector Cerif

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I'm getting bored of making threads. But I'll think.

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03-01-2013 , 12:54 PM

#928

vento

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Maybe bit too serious but you guys could give a try o n this one

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/30...ation-1305552/

and be creative

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03-10-2013 , 03:30 AM

#929

Rikers

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Mice get brain boost from transplanted human tissue

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/gene...d_human_tissue

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In any case, the results indicate that human cells not only aid in learning and memory, but do it better than their rodent counterparts do....A human astrocyte (green) sends out more tentacles and monitors many more neuron-to-neuron connections than mouse astrocytes (red) do. Mice with human astrocytes implanted in their brains do better on learning and memory tests than normal mice do, suggesting that human astrocytes are better than their rodent counterparts at modulating learning.

this is all so exciting

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03-11-2013 , 12:43 AM

#930

BrianTheMick2

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Originally Posted by Rikers

this is all so exciting

Optimizing mice to run mazes is important stuff!

I wonder what the IMOC's stance will be. I am fairly sure that the Chinese have been entering mice into the mouse gymnastics Olympics for years using something akin to such technology. The mouse that one 3 years ago bore a remarkable resemblance to Gary Busey.

The important bit will be whether such technology will change mouse culture in unforeseen ways.

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03-12-2013 , 01:02 AM

#931

All-In Flynn

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Originally Posted by BrianTheMick2

The important bit will be whether such technology will change mouse culture in unforeseen ways.

We'll have to wait until some of them escape and set up their colony on Fitzgibbon's farm.

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03-12-2013 , 02:00 AM

#932

Zeno

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03-12-2013 , 02:03 AM

#933

Zeno

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Why does this man have a bird on his head?

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03-12-2013 , 04:47 AM

#934

Ryanb9

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its the new style in Japan, quite popular from what I can gather.

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03-19-2013 , 10:32 AM

#935

All-In Flynn

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When I view my laptop screen from a particularly oblique angle, the image appears negative. I know it's negative rather than just randomly distorted because I've opened an image in Photoshop and turned it negative. Viewing that from an oblique angle yields a positive (though dim) image.

My laptop screen is an LCD, so at first I thought, well, that just happens with LCD screens. But my TV is also an LCD, and I've checked, and it doesn't happen with my TV at all.

Anyone know what the deal is with that? Particularly, why it happens on my laptop but not on my TV?

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04-04-2013 , 09:42 AM

#936

lastcardcharlie

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Why do we marvel at the unusual? If you saw a piece of ball lightning, you'd marvel at it, but if clouds were rarer then you'd marvel at them instead. Why?

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04-04-2013 , 10:34 AM

#937

jb9

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Because the humans who marveled at everything starved to death or got bonked on the heads when they weren't paying attention.

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04-04-2013 , 11:00 AM

#938

lastcardcharlie

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Everything is marvelous but it's -EV to marvel much. I love it.

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04-04-2013 , 11:08 AM

#939

plaaynde

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Originally Posted by lastcardcharlie

Everything is marvelous but it's -EV to marvel much. I love it.

I don't feel everything is marvelous. When you've seen it enough you just get bored, in many cases. It's just how tings are. Nice to be a child, experiencing "banalities" for the first time. But also frightening. Maybe to be marvelled and frightened are closely related?

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04-08-2013 , 01:23 AM

#940

BrianTheMick2

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Putting the laptop on the hood of a car is an excellent way of proving that sometimes gravity is sometimes more important than friction.

The laptop must have a very strong will to live. 1/4 of the screen is still working.

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04-08-2013 , 04:27 AM

#941

chezlaw

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I wnet to the demo of an 'unbreakable' laptop years ago. The story was you could throw it down the stairs and it wouldn't break

The demo failed spectaculalry. It was an excellent way of proving gravity is more important than fiction

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04-11-2013 , 07:27 PM

#942

Rikers

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so SMP subforum activity died recently, guess we answered all the important topics in life?

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04-11-2013 , 07:34 PM

#943

lastcardcharlie

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Yeah, basically it's all just evolution + the laws of physics.

Unless the laws of physics evolve?

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04-11-2013 , 07:43 PM

#944

chezlaw

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Originally Posted by Rikers

so SMP subforum activity died recently, guess we answered all the important topics in life?

Not everything. That fasting thread I mean wtf are they talking about? Are we next going to have threads on how little electricity we can survive with, or minimum amount of sex?

Also how does someone of my calibre get home this pissed and have no chocolate, cake, chips or kebab etc available when I get home? Just ate a cereal bar wtf is that about?

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04-11-2013 , 07:55 PM

#945

Rikers

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Originally Posted by lastcardcharlie

Unless the laws of physics evolve?

they started something like that in that quantum stuff...

I assumed they need to rationalize their jobs to the rest of us now that we know everything; cmon like there is any chance for that warp drive to succeed... (everyone is going from theoretical physic to salesman imo)

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04-11-2013 , 07:58 PM

#946

Rikers

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Originally Posted by chezlaw

Not everything. That fasting thread I mean wtf are they talking about? Are we next going to have threads on how little electricity we can survive with, or minimum amount of sex?

you know the SMP subforum is getting despaired when we start posting in those threads

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Originally Posted by chezlaw

Also how does someone of my calibre get home this pissed and have no chocolate, cake, chips or kebab etc available when I get home? Just ate a cereal bar wtf is that about?

didn't BMT had that wrapped up?

he's slipping...

(I heard drugs, but shhh)

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04-11-2013 , 09:17 PM

#947

Rikers

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it's better to take sure 200 then to take a 50% chance of winning 600 (purely mathematical without utility theory) taking in account compensation for risk...

cool?

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04-12-2013 , 01:49 AM

#948

BrianTheMick2

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Originally Posted by Rikers

it's better to take sure 200 then to take a 50% chance of winning 600 (purely mathematical without utility theory) taking in account compensation for risk...

cool?

Not with repeated trials.

Not if you have 100,000.

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04-12-2013 , 09:26 AM

#949

Rikers

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Originally Posted by BrianTheMick2

Not with repeated trials.

wp

you can model that decision at the end of your trials. So if you have n ->100 runs measure the expected payoff per unit of risk for both decisions at the end of those runs and take the better one. Obv. at one point (higher n) the 50% of 600 will surpass the 200 one.

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Originally Posted by BrianTheMick2

Not if you have 100,000.

we have formulas that takes into account your bankrolls risk..*

My first thought E(x)/Var. Or simply calculate the Sortino ratio E(x)/downside deviation of your bankroll.

(my example was kind of simplistic since it voided the bankroll problem)

*if you are simply stating that 100,000 is big money vs the 200/600 prizes I stated that the utility theory is disregarded....

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04-12-2013 , 02:35 PM

#950

BrianTheMick2

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Originally Posted by Rikers

I would just calculate the confidence interval...

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I think that if you are trying to assess "adequate" you have to be thinking a little bit of utility. If you drop utility from consideration, you simply calculate EV, pick the larger answer and are done.

There is no obvious reason to want to minimize variance unless you have utilitarian aspirations or are solving for minimax.

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*if you are simply stating that 100,000 is big money vs the 200/600 prizes I stated that the utility theory is disregarded....

I assumed that you were glancing out of the corner of your eye at risk of ruin (a utilitarian notion).

The 100,000 precluded that concern.