Sad. http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1149594/1/.html Dr Tony Tan has been elected Singapore’s seventh President, winning by a 0.34 per cent margin, or 7,269 votes. He secured 744,397 or 35.19 per cent of total valid votes, while Dr Tan Cheng Bock received 737,128 or 34.85 per cent of the valid votes. Anyway, many Game Theoretic applications and takeaways from [...]
Archive for August, 2011
0.34%
Posted in Uncategorized – alaya on August 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Interesting conversations amidst Dissipation
Posted in Uncategorized – alaya on August 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among [...]
Lau Pengs (Old Soldiers)
Posted in Uncategorized – alaya on August 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Heh heh… Context: The government in 2010 announced a reward and incentive scheme of S$9000 for reservists. Unfortunately, the reward will not be paid out retroactively for reservists who had already completed their service. Glossary: wa lau eh — A Singlish exclamation; actual meaning too coarse to place here; refer here for full definition. boh [...]
Happy National Day, Singapura
Posted in Uncategorized – alaya on August 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
WE LIVE IN SINGAPURA: . . . [And of course, one of my fav songs from my childhood] Billy Joel – We Didn’t Start The Fire:
Tiny red dot II
Posted in Uncategorized – alaya on August 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On the subject of National Day Parade and celebratory Mass here on this tiny red dot, from an old post and old comments: Tiny red dot http://dustysojourner.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/tiny-red-dot/ —————————————————————————————————————- http://www.dailyspeculations.com/wordpress/?p=3821 [...] Singapore — like the Venetian Republic in its day — is a wonderful triumph of open commerce in a autocratic island; there is no question [...]
A full August
Posted in Uncategorized – alaya on August 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Looks like its shaping up to be a very full August. The S&P 500 lost almost 60 points and 5% today, the largest one-day decline in almost three years, since the hurricane-halcyon days of autumn 2008. And led earlier by the almost as large sell-offs over in Europe. The slumbering stupor of the summer market [...]
Babbling Babel: Shannon, Chomsky and Computational Linguistics
Posted in Uncategorized – alaya on August 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Wanted to bookend this series with some thoughts on Chomsky and computational linguistics, especially on thoughts KIVed since reading this referenced article here some months back,: On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning http://norvig.com/chomsky.html and especially on the following: “… while it may seem crass and anti-intellectual to consider a financial measure of [...]
Foucault: Power-Knowledge structure (and Excluded Histories)
Posted in Uncategorized – alaya on August 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Wanted to continue on the topic of Power Structures, but will stop with one last add here. From an old truncated post on Foucault’s Power-Knowledge structure: —————————————————————————————————– Probable Futures & Excluded Histories http://dustysojourner.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/probable-futures-excluded-histories/ Bruce Bueno de Mesquita feat Michel Foucault. . . . Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, the New (probabilistic) Nostradamus. His models and algorithms [...]
