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176. CMB 2001 (vol 44 pp. 12)
|A Technique of Studying Sums of Central Cantor Sets
This paper is concerned with the structure of the arithmetic sum of a finite number of central Cantor sets. The technique used to study this consists of a duality between central Cantor sets and sets of subsums of certain infinite series. One consequence is that the sum of a finite number of central Cantor sets is one of the following: a finite union of closed intervals, homeomorphic to the Cantor ternary set or an $M$-Cantorval.
177. CMB 2001 (vol 44 pp. 3)
|The Generating Degree of $\C_p$
The generating degree $\gdeg (A)$ of a topological commutative ring $A$ with $\Char A = 0$ is the cardinality of the smallest subset $M$ of $A$ for which the subring $\Z[M]$ is dense in $A$. For a prime number $p$, $\C_p$ denotes the topological completion of an algebraic closure of the field $\Q_p$ of $p$-adic numbers. We prove that $\gdeg (\C_p) = 1$, \ie, there exists $t$ in $\C_p$ such that $\Z[t]$ is dense in $\C_p$. We also compute $\gdeg \bigl( A(U) \bigr)$ where $A(U)$ is the ring of rigid analytic functions defined on a ball $U$ in $\C_p$. If $U$ is a closed ball then $\gdeg \bigl( A(U) \bigr) = 2$ while if $U$ is an open ball then $\gdeg \bigl( A(U) \bigr)$ is infinite. We show more generally that $\gdeg \bigl( A(U) \bigr)$ is finite for any {\it affinoid} $U$ in $\PP^1 (\C_p)$ and $\gdeg \bigl( A(U) \bigr)$ is infinite for any {\it wide open} subset $U$ of $\PP^1 (\C_p)$.
178. CMB 2001 (vol 44 pp. 97)
|On the Density of Cyclic Quartic Fields
An asymptotic formula is obtained for the number of cyclic quartic fields over $Q$ with discriminant $\leq x$.
Keywords:cyclic quartic fields, density, discriminant
Categories:11R16, 11R29
179. CMB 2001 (vol 44 pp. 19)
|Multiplicities of Binary Recurrences
In this note the multiplicities of binary recurrences over algebraic number fields are investigated under some natural assumptions.
Categories:11B37, 11J86
180. CMB 2001 (vol 44 pp. 115)
|Approximation algébrique simultanée de nombres de Liouville
The purpose of this paper is to show the limitations of the conjectures of algebraic approximation. For this, we construct points of $\bC^m$ which do not admit good algebraic approximations of bounded degree and height, when the bounds on the degree and the height are taken from specific sequences. The coordinates of these points are Liouville numbers.
181. CMB 2001 (vol 44 pp. 87)
|On a New Exponential Sum
Let $p$ be prime and let $\vartheta\in\Z^*_p$ be of multiplicative order $t$ modulo $p$. We consider exponential sums of the form $$ S(a) = \sum_{x =1}^{t} \exp(2\pi i a \vartheta^{x^2}/p) $$ and prove that for any $\varepsilon > 0$ $$ \max_{\gcd(a,p) = 1} |S(a)| = O( t^{5/6 + \varepsilon}p^{1/8}) . $$
Categories:11L07, 11T23, 11B50, 11K31, 11K38
182. CMB 2000 (vol 43 pp. 282)
|Characteristic $p$ Galois Representations That Arise from Drinfeld Modules
We examine which representations of the absolute Galois group of a field of finite characteristic with image over a finite field of the same characteristic may be constructed by the Galois group's action on the division points of an appropriate Drinfeld module.
Categories:11G09, 11R32, 11R58
183. CMB 2000 (vol 43 pp. 304)
|Courbes hyperelliptiques à multiplications réelles et une construction de Shih
Soient $r$ et $p$ deux nombres premiers distincts, soit $K = \Q(\cos \frac{2\pi}{r})$, et soit $\F$ le corps r\'esiduel de $K$ en une place au-dessus de $p$. Lorsque l'image de $(2 - 2\cos \frac{2\pi}{r})$ dans $\F$ n'est pas un carr\'e, nous donnons une construction g\'eom\'etrique d'une extension r\'eguliere de $K(t)$ de groupe de Galois $\PSL_2 (\F)$. Cette extension correspond \`a un rev\^etement de $\PP^1_{/K}$ de \og{} signature $(r,p,p)$ \fg{} au sens de [3, sec.~6.3], et son existence est pr\'edite par le crit\`ere de rigidit\'e de Belyi, Fried, Thompson et Matzat. Sa construction s'obtient en tordant la representation galoisienne associ\'ee aux points d'ordre $p$ d'une famille de vari\'et\'es ab\'eliennes \`a multiplications r\'eelles par $K$ d\'ecouverte par Tautz, Top et Verberkmoes [6]. Ces vari\'et\'es ab\'eliennes sont d\'efinies sur un corps quadratique, et sont isog\`enes \`a leur conjugu\'e galoisien. Notre construction g\'en\'eralise une m\'ethode de Shih [4], [5], que l'on retrouve quand $r = 2$ et $r = 3$. Let $r$ and $p$ be distinct prime numbers, let $K = \Q(\cos \frac{2\pi}{r})$, and let $\F$ be the residue field of $K$ at a place above $p$. When the image of $(2 - 2\cos \frac{2\pi}{r})$ in $\F$ is not a square, we describe a geometric construction of a regular extension of $K(t)$ with Galois group $\PSL_2 (\F)$. This extension corresponds to a covering of $\PP^1_{/K}$ of ``signature $(r,p,p)$'' in the sense of [3, sec.~6.3], and its existence is predicted by the rigidity criterion of Belyi, Fried, Thompson and Matzat. Its construction is obtained by twisting the mod $p$ galois representation attached to a family of abelian varieties with real multiplications by $K$ discovered by Tautz, Top and Verberkmoes [6]. These abelian varieties are defined in general over a quadratic field, and are isogenous to their galois conjugate. Our construction generalises a method of Shih [4], [5], which one recovers when $r = 2$ and $r = 3$.
Categories:11G30, 14H25
184. CMB 2000 (vol 43 pp. 380)
|Twists of a General Class of $L$-Functions by Highly Ramified Characters
It is shown that given a local $L$-function defined by Langlands-Shahidi method, there exists a highly ramified character of the group which when is twisted with the original representation leads to a trivial $L$-function.
Categories:11F70, 22E35, 22E50
185. CMB 2000 (vol 43 pp. 239)
|On the Number of Divisors of the Quadratic Form $m^2+n^2$
For an integer $n$, let $d(n)$ denote the ordinary divisor function. This paper studies the asymptotic behavior of the sum $$ S(x) := \sum_{m\leq x, n\leq x} d(m^2 + n^2). $$ It is proved in the paper that, as $x \to \infty$, $$ S(x) := A_1 x^2 \log x + A_2 x^2 + O_\epsilon (x^{\frac32 + \epsilon}), $$ where $A_1$ and $A_2$ are certain constants and $\epsilon$ is any fixed positive real number. The result corrects a false formula given in a paper of Gafurov concerning the same problem, and improves the error $O \bigl( x^{\frac53} (\log x)^9 \bigr)$ claimed by Gafurov.
Keywords:divisor, large sieve, exponential sums
Categories:11G05, 14H52
186. CMB 2000 (vol 43 pp. 218)
|Continued Fractions, Jacobi Symbols, and Quadratic Diophantine Equations
The results herein continue observations on norm form equations and continued fractions begun and continued in the works \cite{chows}--\cite{mol}, and \cite{mvdpw}--\cite{schinz}.
Categories:11R11, 11D09, 11R29, 11R65
187. CMB 2000 (vol 43 pp. 236)
|On a Question of Buium
We prove that $\{(n^p-n)/p\}_p \in \prod_p \mathbf{F}_p$, with $p$ ranging over all primes, is independent of $1$ over the integers, assuming a conjecture in elementary number theory generalizing the infinitude of Mersenne primes. This answers a question of Buium. We also prove a generalization.
188. CMB 2000 (vol 43 pp. 115)
|Perfect Non-Extremal Riemann Surfaces
An infinite family of perfect, non-extremal Riemann surfaces is constructed, the first examples of this type of surfaces. The examples are based on normal subgroups of the modular group $\PSL(2,{\sf Z})$ of level $6$. They provide non-Euclidean analogues to the existence of perfect, non-extremal positive definite quadratic forms. The analogy uses the function {\it syst\/} which associates to every Riemann surface $M$ the length of a systole, which is a shortest closed geodesic of $M$.
Categories:11H99, 11F06, 30F45
189. CMB 1999 (vol 42 pp. 441)
|Product Bases for the Rationals
A sequence of positive rationals generates a subgroup of finite index in the multiplicative positive rationals, and group product representations by the sequence need only a bounded number of terms, if and only if certain related sequences have densities uniformly bounded from below.
Categories:11N99, 11N05
190. CMB 1999 (vol 42 pp. 427)
|Ramanujan and the Modular $j$-Invariant
A new infinite product $t_n$ was introduced by S.~Ramanujan on the last page of his third notebook. In this paper, we prove Ramanujan's assertions about $t_n$ by establishing new connections between the modular $j$-invariant and Ramanujan's cubic theory of elliptic functions to alternative bases. We also show that for certain integers $n$, $t_n$ generates the Hilbert class field of $\mathbb{Q} (\sqrt{-n})$. This shows that $t_n$ is a new class invariant according to H.~Weber's definition of class invariants.
Keywords:modular functions, the Borweins' cubic theta-functions, Hilbert class fields
Categories:33C05, 33E05, 11R20, 11R29
191. CMB 1999 (vol 42 pp. 393)
|A Class of Supercuspidal Representations of $G_2(k)$
Let $H$ be an exceptional, adjoint group of type $E_6$ and split rank 2, over a $p$-adic field $k$. In this article we discuss the restriction of the minimal representation of $H$ to a dual pair $\PD^{\times}\times G_2(k)$, where $D$ is a division algebra of dimension 9 over $k$. In particular, we discover an interesting class of supercuspidal representations of $G_2(k)$.
Categories:22E35, 22E50, 11F70
192. CMB 1999 (vol 42 pp. 263)
|Mellin Transforms of Mixed Cusp Forms
We define generalized Mellin transforms of mixed cusp forms, show their convergence, and prove that the function obtained by such a Mellin transform of a mixed cusp form satisfies a certain functional equation. We also prove that a mixed cusp form can be identified with a holomorphic form of the highest degree on an elliptic variety.
Categories:11F12, 11F66, 11M06, 14K05
193. CMB 1999 (vol 42 pp. 129)
|Hecke Operations and the Adams $E_2$-Term Based on Elliptic Cohomology
Hecke operators are used to investigate part of the $\E_2$-term of the Adams spectral sequence based on elliptic homology. The main result is a derivation of $\Ext^1$ which combines use of classical Hecke operators and $p$-adic Hecke operators due to Serre.
Keywords:Adams spectral sequence, elliptic cohomology, Hecke operators
Categories:55N20, 55N22, 55T15, 11F11, 11F25
194. CMB 1999 (vol 42 pp. 25)
|On the Set of Common Differences in van der Waerden's Theorem on Arithmetic Progressions
Analogues of van der Waerden's theorem on arithmetic progressions are considered where the family of all arithmetic progressions, $\AP$, is replaced by some subfamily of $\AP$. Specifically, we want to know for which sets $A$, of positive integers, the following statement holds: for all positive integers $r$ and $k$, there exists a positive integer $n= w'(k,r)$ such that for every $r$-coloring of $[1,n]$ there exists a monochromatic $k$-term arithmetic progression whose common difference belongs to $A$. We will call any subset of the positive integers that has the above property {\em large}. A set having this property for a specific fixed $r$ will be called {\em $r$-large}. We give some necessary conditions for a set to be large, including the fact that every large set must contain an infinite number of multiples of each positive integer. Also, no large set $\{a_{n}: n=1,2,\dots\}$ can have $\liminf\limits_{n \rightarrow \infty} \frac{a_{n+1}}{a_{n}} > 1$. Sufficient conditions for a set to be large are also given. We show that any set containing $n$-cubes for arbitrarily large $n$, is a large set. Results involving the connection between the notions of ``large'' and ``2-large'' are given. Several open questions and a conjecture are presented.
Categories:11B25, 05D10
195. CMB 1999 (vol 42 pp. 68)
|The Moments of the Sum-Of-Digits Function in Number Fields
We consider the asymptotic behavior of the moments of the sum-of-digits function of canonical number systems in number fields. Using Delange's method we obtain the main term and smaller order terms which contain periodic fluctuations.
Categories:11A63, 11N60
196. CMB 1999 (vol 42 pp. 78)
|Fermat Jacobians of Prime Degree over Finite Fields
We study the splitting of Fermat Jacobians of prime degree $\ell$ over an algebraic closure of a finite field of characteristic $p$ not equal to $\ell$. We prove that their decomposition is determined by the residue degree of $p$ in the cyclotomic field of the $\ell$-th roots of unity. We provide a numerical criterion that allows to compute the absolutely simple subvarieties and their multiplicity in the Fermat Jacobian.
Categories:11G20, 14H40
197. CMB 1998 (vol 41 pp. 488)
|Remarks on certain metaplectic groups
We study metaplectic coverings of the adelized group of a split connected reductive group $G$ over a number field $F$. Assume its derived group $G'$ is a simply connected simple Chevalley group. The purpose is to provide some naturally defined sections for the coverings with good properties which might be helpful when we carry some explicit calculations in the theory of automorphic forms on metaplectic groups. Specifically, we \begin{enumerate} \item construct metaplectic coverings of $G({\Bbb A})$ from those of $G'({\Bbb A})$; \item for any non-archimedean place $v$, show the section for a covering of $G(F_{v})$ constructed from a Steinberg section is an isomorphism, both algebraically and topologically in an open subgroup of $G(F_{v})$; \item define a global section which is a product of local sections on a maximal torus, a unipotent subgroup and a set of representatives for the Weyl group.
Categories:20G10, 11F75
198. CMB 1998 (vol 41 pp. 335)
|Extremal values of $\Delta(x,N) = \sum\limits_{\stackrel{\scriptstyle n
The function $\Delta(x,N)$ as defined in the title is closely associated via $\Delta(N) = \sup_x |\Delta(x,N)|$ to several problems in the upper bound sieve. It is also known via a classical theorem of Franel that certain conjectured bounds involving averages of $\Delta(x,N)$ are equivalent to the Riemann Hypothesis. We improve the unconditional bounds which have been hitherto obtained for $\Delta(N)$ and show that these are close to being optimal. Several auxiliary results relating $\Delta(Np)$ to $\Delta(N)$, where $p$ is a prime with $p \nmid N$, are also obtained and two new conjectures stated.
199. CMB 1998 (vol 41 pp. 328)
|Class number one and prime-producing quadratic polynomials revisited
Over a decade ago, this author produced class number one criteria for real quadratic fields in terms of prime-producing quadratic polynomials. The purpose of this article is to revisit the problem from a new perspective with new criteria. We look at the more general situation involving arbitrary real quadratic orders rather than the more restrictive field case, and use the interplay between the various orders to provide not only more general results, but also simpler proofs.
Categories:11R11, 11R09, 11R29
200. CMB 1998 (vol 41 pp. 158)
|Power integral bases in composits of number fields
In the present paper we consider the problem of finding power integral bases in number fields which are composits of two subfields with coprime discriminants. Especially, we consider imaginary quadratic extensions of totally real cyclic number fields of prime degree. As an example we solve the index form equation completely in a two parametric family of fields of degree $10$ of this type.
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i am heading to the sarek national park in mid to late august to trek through the park. i was going with 2 friends who now look like there going to pull out. im coming from australia and dont want to miss this opportunity but at the same time due to the potential treacherous weather conditions of the arctic circle am a bit concerned to do this solo.
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World War II Medal of Honor Recipient. He served as a Petty Officer Signalman First Class and holds the distinction of being the only member of the US Coast Guard to receive the Medal of Honor. In 1939, he was attending the Central Washington College of Education when he left to enlist in the US Coast Guard. With the outbreak of World War II, he volunteered to be part of the US Coast Guard's ship transport fleet in the Pacific. In engagements at Guadalcanal Solomon Islands, on September 27, 1942, Petty Officer Munro was in charge of the original detachment of ten Higgins boats that had landed the Marines on the beach. After successfully landing the Marines, he noticed that they were under attack from a larger Japanese force and needed to be extracted immediately. Petty Officer Munro volunteered to lead the boats back to the beach for the evacuation. Commanding the rescue expedition, he brought the boats in-shore under heavy enemy fire and proceeded to evacuate the Marines still on the beach. Though the majority of the Marines had been loaded into the boats, the last remaining elements of the rear guard were having difficulty embarking. Assessing the situation, he maneuvered himself and his boats into a position to cover the last groups of men as they headed to the boats. In doing so, he exposed himself to greater enemy fire and suffered his fatal wound. It as reported that he had remained conscious long enough to utter his final four words: "Did they get off"? For his heroic and selfless actions in the completion of this rescue mission, he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor by President Roosevelt at the White House in May 1943.
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So true, there are some posters out there who feel their opinion is the only one that is right.
Well, most people didn't rip her to shreds, simply told her that you can't make somebody like something. And yes, some mentioned the fact that the kids' mom may not go for it. I was the one who stated that sometimes post divorce relationships are unstable. Some are.
She then told a board member "screw you". Which was not very nice, or mature.
If she really thinks she can covert him, more power to her. I have converted quite a few family members. Most people there have also had experience with those who want no part of WDW. Giving someone a gift trip to WDW because you like it is a potential disaster.
Also, offering an opinion when you have been asked for one is not mean. Even if the OP doesn't agree with it. Some people are just too sensitive to participate on a discussion board apparently.
Didn't you do enough damage on the other thread?
Leave the poor girl alone and go back to putting your 2 cents in on the 'regular' boards.
I don't even know why I'm responding to this. I should leave the trolls alone.
There are a lot of emotions post Divorce and the only ones that know the details are those involved. For all you know the Mom could be out of the picture or not involved any longer. As for the language I don't know.
I've decided that come his birthday I'm just going to give him the gift of a vacation of his choosing. With or without the kids. It'll be his choice. We went on a cruise earlier in the year and he had mentioned he'd like to take the boys on a short 3-4 days cruise sometime. Maybe he'll want to do that. Maybe he'll want it to do something with just the 2 of us. I do still truly believe that he'd enjoy WDW once he looked into it more, but I'm just going to talk to him about that another time.
And as for the people who politely told me they didn't think giving him a WDW trip as a birthday present was a good idea, I respected them. It has nothing to do with my sensitivity. There was no need for anyone who did to go into other comments about the stability of my relationship and whether I had the right to consider them my family. Home is where your heart is, and mine is with them (along with my own family). And also as far as assuming because of my reaction that I was much younger than my boyfriend (I'm 2 months older than him). All of those comments were uncalled for and rude, and there was no need to delve into those areas. My comment in return to the one person was only in response to being hurt. People can't play with fire and expect not to get burned as far as comments/replies go.
That being said...thank you to everyone who politely responded to my question.
I won't lie, my first thoughts when my wife offered Disney up as a vacation destination were less then enthused. Lots of reasons none of them particularly insightful, I just didn't see it as a place I'd see having much use for.
5 trips in 5 years should be an indication of a change of view on the issue. First we're Canadian, so escaping the cold Canadian winter in February is a plus, its warmer without being too warm. We stay on sight every time. I've read more then enough debate on the plus/minus of this, simply ... that's what we do because its what we want to do.
I'm 52, DW is 46 we have two boys 22 and 13 every trip has provided something which in total satisfies each and everyone of us. Every trip taken has provided a new option, a new experience and memories we carry right up to the planning of the next trip. When first discussed I did not envision this or a second trip frankly.
My wife and I just celebrated our 25th anniversary with a trip for the two of us, We attended the Food & Wine, MNSSHP, The Keys To the Kingdom tour. We focused more on dining Le Cellier, the Flying Fish a couple others. I definitely did not see that coming when the first trip to Disney was suggested. It was a completely different trip then previously taken. It was completely wonderful as well.
I went on the first trip because that's what my wife and family seemed to want. I'm going back on my 6th trip in 5 years this February because I want to. We love it, the options, the sights, the experiences are many there are things we haven't done yet, perhaps there will be a day when this isn't the case, at this point I have a hard time envisioning it. I know this, I'm glad I took the first trip, I went with an open mind and quickly realized as a Husband, Father and vacationer I'm happy in the World. Like everything else, it may not be for all people but I'm glad we went and I'm looking forward to going again and ...likely again.
Just came across this thread, and looking for similar advice. I've been to the World once (solo), had a fun, relaxing time, and booked a bounceback. I asked DH to go with me this time. His response was what OP encountered: "Why would I want to spend a week and all that money to ride little kid rides?" Granted, his only knowledge of Disney was a few days we spent at DL with our young kids years ago. And, yeah, it was basically little kid rides, the swimming pool, and lots of pizza. Great memories, but not appealing for a grown-up vacation.
I thought, OK, and let it go. One day we looked over my recent trip photos together. Occasionally I've talked about something I really enjoyed - a restaurant, a ride, having a cold beer and listening to 'Off Kilter', the great customer service, whatever. After a few months I asked him again, because if he wasn't going, my friend needs time to plan. To my surprise, he said "sure".
My DH would not have been the guy to surprise with a trip. He likes to know what he's getting into. He's mentioned a few concerns (like the hot weather) and requests (one special, elegant dinner), and we discuss them. It will be our trip, not my trip with him in tow. He will arrive with a pretty good idea of what to expect, instead of having unrealistic expectations and being disappointed. I'm not trying to make him a Disney fan, I just want him to have a good time on vacation. Yesterday I made it official -- added him to the reservation and booked plane tickets. We are both looking forward to it.
Every one of us is different. Whatever you and yours decide will be best for your situation at the present time.
My DW loves going to Disney and has been numerous times. I've only been one time. Before I even went on that trip I had no desire to go but because she insisted I went. I had an ok time. The only reason I had just an ok time was because it was my first time going on a trip like that. I might've been trying to adjust to my surroundings as well. I agreed to go again and look forward to having a great time because my girls will be older and will be able to do more than the last trip. Hopefully your boyfriend will find something he really enjoys there. I'm excited to go to Disney Quest and play some golf.
I'm not sure if you made a decision yet, but if not here are my two cents. I agree with a pp and op that giving the trip as a birthday present might not be the best idea, since he has said he didn't want to go. That would be giving yourself a gift and assuming that he will love it when he gets there. There is nothing wrong with giving yourself a gift of something amazing like this, and wanting to share the experience with your family, in fact it's amazing. Maybe tell him that you want to provide this for the family, how can he resist if its for the kids. He will likely love it, if not for himself, for them. Just give him a new wrench for his birthday, that's a good gift.
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Some researchers (in both science and marketing) abuse a slavish view of p-values to try and falsely claim credibility. The incantation is: "we achieved p = x (with x ≤ 0.05) so you should trust our work." This might be true if the published result had been performed as a single project (and not as the sole shared result in longer series of private experiments) and really points to the fact that even frequentist significance is a subjective and intensional quantity (an accusation usually reserved for Bayesian inference). In this article we will comment briefly on the negative effect of un-reported repeated experiments and what should be done to compensate. Continue reading Drowning in insignificance
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Unprincipled Component Analysis
As a data scientist I have seen variations of principal component analysis and factor analysis so often blindly misapplied and abused that I have come to think of the technique as unprincipled component analysis. PCA is a good technique often used to reduce sensitivity to overfitting. But this stated design intent leads many to (falsely) believe that any claimed use of PCA prevents overfit (which is not always the case). In this note we comment on the intent of PCA like techniques, common abuses and other options.
The idea is to illustrate what can quietly go wrong in an analysis and what tests to perform to make sure you see the issue. The main point is some analysis issues can not be fixed without going out and getting more domain knowledge, more variables or more data. You can't always be sure that you have insufficient data in your analysis (there is always a worry that some clever technique will make the current data work), but it must be something you are prepared to consider. Continue reading Unprincipled Component Analysis
Use standard deviation (not mad about MAD)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb recently wrote an article advocating the abandonment of the use of standard deviation and advocating the use of mean absolute deviation. Mean absolute deviation is indeed an interesting and useful measure- but there is a reason that standard deviation is important even if you do not like it: it prefers models that get totals and averages correct. Absolute deviation measures do not prefer such models. So while MAD may be great for reporting, it can be a problem when used to optimize models. Continue reading Use standard deviation (not mad about MAD)
Unit tests as penance
It recently hit me that I see unit tests as a form of penance (in addition to being a great tool for specification and test driven development). If you fix a bug and don't add a unit test I suspect you are not actually sorry. Continue reading Unit tests as penance
Yet another bit on bitcoin: is it a semi closed-end index fund on electricity and hardware?
Bitcoin continues to surge in buzz and price (194,993 coin transfer, US Senate hearings and astronomical price and total capitalization). This gets me to thinking: what in finance terms is Bitcoin? It claims aspire to be a currency, but what is it actually behaving like? Continue reading Yet another bit on bitcoin: is it a semi closed-end index fund on electricity and hardware?
Worry about correctness and repeatability, not p-values
In data science work you often run into cryptic sentences like the following:
Age adjusted death rates per 10,000 person years across incremental thirds of muscular strength were 38.9, 25.9, and 26.6 for all causes; 12.1, 7.6, and 6.6 for cardiovascular disease; and 6.1, 4.9, and 4.2 for cancer (all P < 0.01 for linear trend).
(From "Association between muscular strength and mortality in men: prospective cohort study," Ruiz et. al. BMJ 2008;337:a439.)
The accepted procedure is to recognize "p" or "p-value" as shorthand for "significance," keep your mouth shut and hope the paper explains what is actually claimed somewhere later on. We know the writer is claiming significance, but despite the technical terminology they have not actually said which test they actually ran (lm(), glm(), contingency table, normal test, t-test, f-test, g-test, chi-sq, permutation test, exact test and so on). I am going to go out on a limb here and say these type of sentences are gibberish and nobody actually understands them. From experience we know generally what to expect, but it isn't until we read further we can precisely pin down what is actually being claimed. This isn't the authors' fault, they are likely good scientists, good statisticians, and good writers; but this incantation is required by publishing tradition and reviewers.
We argue you should worry about the correctness of your results (how likely a bad result could look like yours, the subject of frequentist significance) and repeatability (how much variance is in your estimation procedure, as measured by procedures like the bootstrap). p-values and significance are important in how they help structure the above questions.
The legitimate purpose of technical jargon is to make conversations quicker and more precise. However, saying "p" is not much shorter than saying "significance" and there are many different procedures that return p-values (so saying "p" does not limit you down to exactly one procedure like a good acronym might). At best the savings in time would be from having to spend 10 minutes thinking which interpretation of significance is most approbate to the actual problem at hand versus needing a mere 30 seconds to read about the "p." However, if you don't have 10 minutes to consider if the entire result a paper is likely an observation artifact due to chance or noise (the subject of significance) then you really don't care much about the paper.
In our opinion "p-values" have degenerated from a useful jargon into a secretive argot. We are going to discuss thinking about significance as "worrying about correctness" (a fundamental concern) instead of as a cut and dried statistical procedure you should automate out of view (uncritically copying reported p's from fitters). Yes "p"s are significances, but there is no reason to not just say what sort of error you are claiming is unlikely. Continue reading Worry about correctness and repeatability, not p-values
A randomized algorithm that fails with near certainty
Recently Heroku was accused of using random queue routing while claiming to supply something similar to shortest queue routing (see: James Somers – Heroku's Ugly Secret and more discussion at hacker news: Heroku's Ugly Secret). If this is true it is pretty bad. I like randomized algorithms and I like queueing theory, but you need to work through proofs or at least simulations when playing with queues. You don't want to pick an arbitrary algorithm and claim it works "due to randomness." We will show a very quick example where randomized routing is very bad with near certainty. Just because things are "random" doesn't mean you can't or shouldn't characterize them. Continue reading A randomized algorithm that fails with near certainty
How to test XCOM "dice rolls" for fairness
XCOM: Enemy Unknown is a turn based video game where the player choses among actions (for example shooting an alien) that are labeled with a declared probability of success.
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A lot of gamers, after missing a 80% chance of success shot, start asking if the game's pseudo random number generator is fair. Is the game really rolling the dice as stated, or is it cheating? Of course the matching question is: are player memories at all fair; would they remember the other 4 out of 5 times they made such a shot?
This article is intended as an introduction to the methods you would use to test such a question (be it in a video game, in science, or in a business application such as measuring advertisement conversion). There are already some interesting articles on collecting and analyzing XCOM data and finding and characterizing the actual pseudo random generator code in the game, and discussing the importance of repeatable pseudo-random results. But we want to add a discussion pointed a bit more at analysis technique in general. We emphasize methods that are efficient in their use of data. This is a statistical term meaning that a maximal amount of learning is gained from the data. In particular we do not recommend data binning as a first choice for analysis as it cuts down on sample size and thus is not the most efficient estimation technique.
Please stop using Excel-like formats to exchange data
I know "officially" data scientists all always work in "big data" environments with data in a remote database, streaming store or key-value system. But in day to day work Excel files and Excel export files get used a lot and cause a disproportionate amount of pain.
I would like to make a plea to my fellow data scientists to stop using Excel-like formats for informal data exchange and become much stricter in producing and insisting on truly open machine readable files. Open files are those in an open format (not proprietary like Microsoft Excel) and machine readable in this case means readable by a very simple program (preferring simple escaping strategies to complicated quoting strategies). A lot of commonly preferred formats surprisingly do not meet these conditions: for example Microsoft Excel, XML and quoted CSV all fail the test. A few formats that do meet these conditions: SQL dumps, JSON and what I call "strong TSV." I will illustrate some of the difficulty in using ad-hoc formats in R and suggest work-arounds. Continue reading Please stop using Excel-like formats to exchange data
I am done with 32 bit machines
I am going to come-out and say it: I am emotionally done with 32 bit machines and operating systems. My sympathy for them is at an end.
I know that ARM is still 32 bit, but in that case you get something big back in exchange: the ability to deploy on smartphones and tablets. For PCs and servers 32 bit addressing's time is long past, yet we still have to code for and regularly run into these machines and operating systems. The time/space savings of 32 bit representations is nothing compared to the loss of capability in sticking with that architecture and the wasted effort in coding around it. My work is largely data analysis in a server environment, and it is just getting ridiculous to not be able to always assume at least a 64 bit machine. Continue reading I am done with 32 bit machines


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Very "happy" photo.Nov 21st, 2013 Reply
fantasticNov 11th, 2013 Reply
Lovely modelNov 11th, 2013 Reply
oh beautiful!!!Nov 10th, 2013 Reply Who wants a hug?
Happy and lovelyNov 10th, 2013 Reply ♥ Love Never Fails ♥
Stunning shot, the colors are gorgeous.Nov 10th, 2013 Reply
The colours fully represent the autumn, it's a very cheerful portrait when compared with the shy and cold breeze of autumnNov 10th, 2013 Reply
Very beautifulNov 10th, 2013 Reply