InquilineKea

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Feel free to stalk my Internet name(s) if you wish - it's how I make most of my closest contacts these days. Just note that I don't really believe in social constructs when they get in the way of satisficing (or in the way of my goal of learning as much as possible).

Don't take anything I say/do too seriously. A lot of the things I do (that may look weird/stupid on the outside) are the types of things that help me adjust my posterior probability of various things - especially low probability events.Sometimes I hit on a jackpot/very interesting idea. I'm kind of messy since it helps facilitate creative destruction.

I have a lot of respect for all of the sciences. Tactically, I'm developing heuristics for rationality, impartiality, anti-laziness, and creation+identification+searching for what's relevant+reliable. Strategically, I just want to learn everything.

A lot of my thought processes involve my creating new hypotheses and refuting them on my own. I still document the thought process since it's important and may be important for future "true" hypotheses.


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Oct
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 asked How do you take a weighted mean where values farther from a given number are weighted less?
Sep
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 accepted What is a good Monte Carlo algorithm for generating an archipelago in a particular map?
Sep
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Sep
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 comment What is a good Monte Carlo algorithm for generating an archipelago in a particular map?
Haha yes I've played on the Zone before. As for what I expect - a bunch of island arcs (sort of like the Indonesian or Hawaiian islands), surrounded by oceans Thanks for the suggestions so far - I'll definitely look into them
Sep
5
 asked What is a good Monte Carlo algorithm for generating an archipelago in a particular map?
Aug
11
 asked In Brownian motion, how does the absolute value of a particle's distance from the center scale with respect to number of iterations?
Aug
7
 comment How many copies of shredded text are needed for getting 99.9% reconstruction of mutated text?
He's primarily interested in microbial genomes, so we don't need to worry about more complicated things like chromosomal rearrangements or sister chromatid exchanges. We just have to worry about the number of single point mutations (for now)
Aug
7
 comment How many copies of shredded text are needed for getting 99.9% reconstruction of mutated text?
As for capitalized/lowercase letters - it doesn't really matter (the distinction doesn't really happen in the genetic code)
Aug
5
 comment How many copies of shredded text are needed for getting 99.9% reconstruction of mutated text?
Breaking should be random (not pre-stressed at certain places)
Aug
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 asked How many copies of shredded text are needed for getting 99.9% reconstruction of mutated text?
Jul
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 awarded  Tumbleweed
Jul
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 awarded  Autobiographer
Jul
15
 accepted When was the cross-correlation function invented? And what was the motivation behind it?
Jul
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 accepted When was the autocorrelation function invented? And what was the motivation for it?
Jul
14
 asked When was the cross-correlation function invented? And what was the motivation behind it?
Jul
14
 asked When was the autocorrelation function invented? And what was the motivation for it?
Jul
14
 comment What exactly is the name of the type of regression analysis where you try to see if the model is significant over *multiple* start/end values?
Ah okay thanks! Are changepoint detections related to rolling regressions?
Jul
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 comment What exactly is the name of the type of regression analysis where you try to see if the model is significant over *multiple* start/end values?
Oh wow - very nice - thanks!
Jul
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 accepted What exactly is the name of the type of regression analysis where you try to see if the model is significant over *multiple* start/end values?
Jul
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 comment What exactly is the name of the type of regression analysis where you try to see if the model is significant over *multiple* start/end values?
Okay I just edited
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