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Machine Learning, Big Data, Deep Learning, Data Mining, Statistics, Decision & Risk Analysis, Probability, Fuzzy Logic FAQ

William Briggs, one of my favorite statisticians, has a big post up answering everything you didn't want to know about probability and related computer science fields: Machine Learning, Big Data, Deep Learning, Data Mining, Statistics, Decision & Risk Analysis, Probability, Fuzzy Logic FAQ What’s the difference between

A Key Incident in the Education of Alexander of Macedon

...the crucial scene in the education of Alexander of Macedon (not yet The Great) who as a teenager was sent with one of Phillip’s marshals with a small force to deal with insurgents and raids on the frontier. On the way they encountered a stream of refugees, young people,

More Neil Armstrong Test Pilot Stories

Jerry Pournelle has a couple more good stories about Neil Armstrong's piloting ability: And of course they all had the right stuff, and they knew it, and they knew that Armstrong had more of it than most. During the Apollo Lander Simulation flight – the trainer was dubbed the

Mr. Windsor

In a strange bit of convergence between The Mote in God's Eye, and The King's Speech, we have this tidbit from the collected works of Robert Heinlein. And speaking of Naval princes—Lieut. Windsor (later George VI) was a turret officer in a British battlewagon that

I salute you!

Winston Churchill's "The Dream"

John Derbyshire scanned in a short work by Winston Churchill, The Dream. Churchill wrote it near the end of his life, a reminiscence of his father, then dead for 50 years, and all the things that had happened in the world since. It was touching, and pleasing to read. Churchill

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