MetaFilter posts tagged with mathematics and research

You and Your Research

parudox — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:23:16 -0800

You and Your Research was a talk given by Richard Hamming in 1986. Read it if you have an interest in doing first-class work.

Tangible Applications of Science

Gyan — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 17:21:13 -0800

Beyond Discovery - illustrations of the path from research to human benefit

Negative knowledge (or more precisely negative information)

kliuless — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 22:40:50 -0800

Know less than nothing!? What could negative knowledge possibly mean? In short, after I tell you negative information, you will know less... "In this week's issue of Nature, however, Michal Horodecki and colleagues present a fresh approach to understanding quantum phenomena that cannot be grasped simply by considering their classical counterparts." [via slashdot :]

The Complexity of a Controversial Concept

kliuless — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 18:03:37 -0800

The Logic of Diversity "A new book, The Wisdom of Crowds [..:] by The New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki, has recently popularized the idea that groups can, in some ways, be smarter than their members, which is superficially similar to Page's results. While Surowiecki gives many examples of what one might call collective cognition, where groups out-perform isolated individuals, he really has only one explanation for this phenomenon, based on one of his examples: jelly beans [...] averaging together many independent, unbiased guesses gives a result that is probably closer to the truth than any one guess. While true — it's the central limit theorem of statistics — it's far from being the only way in which diversity can be beneficial in problem solving." (Three-Toed Sloth)

MemoryNet

Gyan — Mon, 24 May 2004 19:00:21 -0800

Modelling err.. something.