Science Archive

The prisoner’s dilemma

A nice illustration of the prisoner’s dilemma:  The Partygoers Dilemma via kwout

Significant digits

A very difficult topic with computers are significant digits. This is summarized in the comic below: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal via kwout Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Found via Flowing Data

Plutchik’s Wheel Of Emotions

  File:Plutchik-wheel.svg – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia via kwout   List of emotions – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia undefined

I already blogged about Bayes’s Theorem application here. However I found this other introduction very interristing. The theorem is summarized by: Bayes’ theorem is the formula that calculates these updated probabilities. Using H to stand for a hypothesis (such as H1, H2 or H3), and E a piece of evidence (such as Result A, Result [...]

A slideshow of beautiful fractals

Slideshow of Stunning (and Whimsical) Fractals, in Honor of Benoit Mandelbrot – Design – GOOD via kwout

The great mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot past away this week. After the jump there is a good summary page that links to some materials about his work (In french). Benoît Mandelbrot change de dimension via kwout

KHAN Academy: Free video Lessons

Khan Academy is a great project initiated by Sal Khan that delivers free video lessons. The subjects covered are mainly related to Math and science and economy. There are actually more than 1800 video available. Khan Academy via kwout The video presentation of the project is here:

There is really a model for everything. BBC reports the results of a study that states that there is a link between sleep position and personality. The most common sleep positions are: BBC NEWS | Health | Sleep position gives personality clue via kwout The personalities according the position are: Foetus: tough on the outside [...]

EHM published a funny list of advices to help live to 100 years: How to live to 100 | GDS Publishing via kwout

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