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Emil O. W. Kirkegaard blog

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…

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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)

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Pun #398284

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:30. August 2012
  • Post category:Humor
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[13:17:11] Emil - Deleet: http://emilkirkegaard.dk/clusterwiki [13:32:05] Emil - Deleet: wikipedia [13:32:07] Emil - Deleet: is a gold mine [13:32:09] Emil - Deleet: for data mining [13:32:26] Emil - Deleet: one…

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A small thing about enumerative induction

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:29. August 2012
  • Post category:Logic
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A thing occurred to me while i was reviewing the idea of enumerative induction becus i mentioned it to a friend of mine. The thing is that such inductions are…

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If u can read this, u can read anything…

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:28. August 2012
  • Post category:Humor
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Remember those films where if u can watch them, then u can watch anything? Yea, there is a short story like that: My Immortal. I dare u to read it!…

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Asimov, anti-intellectualism (more Wiki quotes)

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:22. August 2012
  • Post category:Feminism/equality
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  So, the picture made me go on a Wikipedia reading frency (as it so happens). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism Anti-intellectualism is hostility towards and mistrust of intellect, intellectuals, and intellectual pursuits, usually…

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