Bannalia: trivial notes on themes diverse
Monday, April 28, 2008
Common ancestors
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In small towns, it is usual that almost everybody is a distant cousin of almost everybody else. What are the kinship statistics of a closed,...
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Convexity in (
Z
n
,L
∞
): results
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I have written an implementation of the wavefront algorithm for ( Z 2 ,L ∞ ) . You will need Boost to compile it. The mode of usage is the...
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Children and siblings
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Suppose the fertility rate in a given society is R . If one makes a poll among the adult population asking for the number of siblings each ...
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Origami hummingbird diagrams
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These are the folding instructions for the origami sword-billed hummingbird shown in a prior entry (click on the images to enlarge): You ca...
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Saturday, April 12, 2008
Almost sure colearning
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In a prior entry we defined the act of colearning between agents A and B as a special mode of acquiring knowledge such that when some pro...
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Convexity in (
Z
n
,L
∞
)
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After having studied our generalized convexity concept for ( Z n ,L 1 ) , we investigate now the L ∞ metric: dist(( x 1 ,..., x n ),( y 1 ...
Friday, April 4, 2008
Origami hummingbird
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I designed this very simple model during the past Easter holidays. The extremely long beak allows us to identify this specimen as a sword-bi...
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