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Comment Re:Mental masturbation (Score 2) 127

Yeah, he kind of covers that in section 5. No reason for picking his model (other than simplicity), it can't predict new characters, and there's very little data to go off of.

Sure, it's mental masturbation. But developing little toy models like this is still interesting and helps you understand limitations and keep up your skills without working on big, complicated, boring real statistical models. This kind of thing is worth doing for the same reason masturbating is worth doing--it's fun. As long as you don't take it too seriously and start confusing it with actual sex.

Comment Re:math (Score 1) 241

I've always wondered if it would be difficult to make a voice recognition program integrate mathematical symbols. Even though those symbols exist as a shorthand, fields with underdeveloped notation can be a little cumbersome for writing. Anyone who can make my pen obsolete by accomplishing this can claim it as a prize.

Comment TI-89 (Score 1) 776

My favorite is a TI-89 emulator, because when I use a calculator I'm usually not in it for the general operations. Unless you count Mathematica as on-screen (and as a calculator). But I guess anything that can make graphs and calculate their diameters and girths for me isn't a 'calculator.'

Comment By favorite with a twist (Score 1) 423

My books are organized by how much I like them, but instead of going from left to right, my favorite is in the middle, 2nd favorite on the left of it, 3rd on the right of the 1st, 4th on the left of the 3rd and so on. I have no idea why I did that, but when I bought my new bookshelf I just kind of started putting them that way. The lower shelves are mostly reference books, trivia, and old textbooks (unless they're my favorite, which explains why the placement of my old calc book).

Feed Engadget: Angstrom Power touts hydrogen fuel cells for cellphones (engadget.com) 1

Filed under: Cellphones

There's certainly no shortage of companies out there trying to provide unconventional means of keeping your cellphone powered, and it looks like you can now add yet another ever-recurring bit of tech to the list, with Angstrom Power now touting its hydrogen fuel cells for cellphones. While they're obviously still quite a ways from landing in your handset, Angstrom does seem to be a good deal further than the concept stage, with them having already managed to cram some of the cells into a MOTOSLVR L7. That transplant, Angstrom says, gives the phone twice the juice of a standard battery and lets it recharge in just ten minutes. Just don't look for those anytime before 2010, which is when Angstrom "hopes" the first commercial phones equipped with the fuel cells will be available.

[Via Physorg]

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