Tag Archives: gaussian distribution

The standard deviation of the standard deviation is my friend?

I made a rather startling discovery in my research the other day. I was looking for a better way of filtering out pixels in the videos I was analyzing; picking an arbitrary constant to set the threshold didn’t seem to … Continue reading

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“We need to have empathy”

It may not be well-advertised, but if asked directly I make no secret of the fact that one of the most interesting things in the world to me is humanity. We fall everywhere on every single spectrum, both disgustingly predictable … Continue reading

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The “dichotomy” of good and evil

This is something of a world-view I’ve been cooking up for the better part of the last 24 years, but only just discovered last semester – in the throes of Hoeffding-instigated agony and insomnia-induced delium – how to adequately and … Continue reading

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