Emil O. W. Kirkegaard

Education, autodidactism, etc.: Another Wikipedia trip

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:25. September 2012
Post category:Differential psychology/psychometrics Education Multilogues Philosophy
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It began with this conversation with my friend Chad on Skype: [09:54:34] Chad Stearns - Economist: A friend of mine met Aubrey De Grey [09:54:41] Chad Stearns - Economist:…

Funny stuff goes here

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:20. September 2012
Post category:Humor Multilogues
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[21:13:16] Emil - Deleet: http://www.okcupid.com/profile/itsadeathstar?cf=regular one of those using "curvy" when they shud be using "fat" [21:13:41] The Midget - Miao: She's beyond fat -

Decent paper i read on nuclear power

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:20. September 2012
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Some time ago i decided to look into nuclear power. While i havent had time yet to read some of the books i mentioned there, i read this paper. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2664640/…

Unfinished paper: An evolutionary theory of the origin of same-sex sexual acts based on social bonding

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:20. September 2012
Post category:Evolutionary biology Evolutionary Psychology
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I have had this on my computer for 6 months now, but i can't get myself to work on it. Basically just need to insert some references and look thru…

Mining data from OKCupid: using OKC’s questions as an IQ-test

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:17. September 2012
Post category:Differential psychology/psychometrics Psychology
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Is it possible? Yes. In the exact same way that one normally makes an IQ-test, one can do so with OKC. Handpick a lot of questions that have to do…

Learning – theory and practice

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:12. September 2012
Post category:Philosophy
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This is an old badly written version of this new post. Learning - theory and practice (pdf due to formatting)

Some thoughts about the principle of compositionality

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:11. September 2012
Post category:Language Linguistics/language Logic
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This is another of those ideas that ive had independently, and that it turned out that others had thought of before me, by thousands of years in this case. The…

Just world bias and karma

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:9. September 2012
Post category:Ethics Religion
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As i remarked to Maggie McNeill Maggie McNeill I don’t believe in Hell, but I do believe in karma. And it’s going to be a long, long time before these…

Another linguistics trip on Wiki

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:6. September 2012
Post category:Language Linguistics/language Logic Math/Statistics
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I just wanted to look up some stuff on the questions that a teacher had posed. Since i dont actually have the book, and since one cant search…

A small thing about enumerative induction #2

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:31. August 2012
Post category:Logic
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A followup to yesterday (?)'s post. I had an idea about how to be able to recognize the normal inference, but avoiding recognizing the other one if one so wants…