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Error in the erratum
One usually needs to take care when writing corrections: An error in an erratum looks silly. For those with knowledge of Danish would note that a word in the title has a typo: "Radioavsien" should...
View ArticleProbability, DNA and court
I recently initiated the Wikipedia article about the Court here in Lyngby and surfed a bit round on the homepage of the court. I stumbled upon an interesting case from 2011 about acquittal with a DNA...
View ArticleMy elevator talk video
I was surprised to find that not all know my 225-view famous perhaps semi-humorous elevator talk video. So here it is. Please note the matched timing of the speech and the elevator. It took me some...
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Eurovision Song Contest and DK Intelligentsia tweets #ESCdk
Eurovision Song Contest 2012 is live from Baku in the country east of Armenia that is difficult to spell, and the development is followed closely by the Danish Intelligentsia. Here - besides me -...
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Caught red-and-white-handed
Denmark is on the front page of English Wikipedia today as it is constitution day (5 June). In connection with writing on Wikipedia I ran into paragraph 57. It reads "No member of parliament can...
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An image of obsolescence
An image of obsolescence: Four empty telephone booths. (As seen on a hotel in Crete) Permalink | Leave a comment »
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NumPy beginner's guide: Date formatting, stock quotes and Wikipedia sentiment...
Last year I acted as one of the reviewers on a book from Packt Publishing: The NumPy 1.5 Beginner's Guide (ISBN 13 : 978-1-84951-530-6) about the numerical programming library in the Python...
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Graph spectra with NetworkX
I was looking for a value of how clustered a network is. I thought that somewhere in graph spectrum was a good place to start and that in the Python package NetworkX there would be some useful...
View ArticleInternet addiction neuroimaging in Newsweek
I thought we were over this neuroimaging blobology reporting? Newsweek writes: The brains of Internet addicts, it turns out, look like the brains of drug and alcohol addicts. In a study published in...
View ArticleWhen the expert isn't wise on when the crowd isn't wise
David Leonhardt has a piece in New York Times about prediction markets: "When the Crowd Isn't Wise". His main argument is that the odds at the online prediction market Intrade was 75 percent for the...
View ArticleRejsekort blues
I have just ordered a Danish "Rejsekort". It may correspond to London's Oyster Card, but covers much of Denmark. There has been critique of the technical system and when I did the registration for the...
View ArticleCherryPy vs Tornado benchmarking
CherryPy is a Python-based web framework enabling you to make a dynamic web service without much setup and configuration. It comes with its own web server and a "Hello, World" can be constructed in...
View ArticleSmall solutions for big data and python shelve concurrency
I am still on the lookout for a good database system: Movable, big, concurrent, fast, flexible and not necessarily requiring root access. MySQL, good in many aspects, lacks flexibility: An ALTER TABLE...
View ArticleAuthor and producer behind Forbrydelsen kidnapped by BFSR terrorists
Danish DR TV-series Forbrydelsen (The Killing) author and producer, Søren Sveistrup and Piv Bernth, have been kidnapped by a terrorist organization referring to themselves as BFSR (British Front of...
View ArticleGood Morning, idiot (WAS: The latest messages from editorial department)
Yet another email from "Scientific & Academic Publishing" -- a wannabe scientific publisher that spams researchers. How I got on their mailing list I do not know. And how I get of I do not know....
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Sentiment analysis of Wikipedia pages on Danish politicians
We are presently analyzing company articles on Wikipedia with simple sentiment analysis to determine how well we see any interesting patterns, e.g., whether the Wikipedia sentiment correlates with...
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More on automated sentiment analysis of Danish politicians on Wikipedia
Previously today I put up sentiment analysis of Danish politician Ellen Trane Nørby on the text of the Danish Wikipedia. Unfortunately, I could not resist the temptation of spending a bit of time on...
View ArticleJean-Pierre Hombach and Amazon.com: Large-scale Wikipedia copyright infringers?
An entity calling itself "Jean-Pierre Hombach" presents itself with "I'm a German writer Comedian and short filmmaker. I'm studying media at the University of Vic." The profile on Twitter states...
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Sentiment colored sequential collaboration network
Sentiment colored sequential collaboration network of some of the Wikipedians editing the Wikipedia articles associated with the Lundbeck company. Red are negative sentiment, green are positive. The...
View ArticleMoving to WordPress
Posterous has announced that it will close it service. :-( I am moving this blog to WordPress: https://finnaarupnielsen.wordpress.com/ Hope to see you there? Permalink | Leave a comment »
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