Yet more keen links one might want to share

[xoxoxoBruce]

Damn, only four bass players. We've gotta do better, after all UT's not getting any younger, and can't do the bridesmaid thing forever.

[Gravdigr]

In 2008 my mom instructed me to "sober up" and send my own Christmas cards to family and friends. Here's every year since, including the new one for 2015!

[Gravdigr]

Wait, isn’t that…? If you know your celebrities well, you’ll notice there something sli-i-i-i-ghtly off about these portraits of some of our most famous faces.

That’s because they aren’t actually the stars in questions — instead, they’re digital photo fusions of two completely different people. Artist Gesichtermix (“Gesicht” means face in German) stitches the faces together digitally, creating very believable images.

Hillary + The Donald = Jimmy Carter:

[fargon]

That's just rong.

[Gravdigr]

These emails show how upset NSA spies were with the film 'Enemy of the State'

The actual emails at the bottom of the article are an interesting read.

[lumberjim]

http://zty.pe

Typing space invaders type thing

[glatt]

Good one. Makes me wish I could type faster.

[Clodfobble]

Got to wave 9. Got screwed a couple of times because initial-letter typos left me "starting" a word I hadn't intended, then I had to look all over trying to figure out what word I had to finish. It was fun.

[BigV]

https://imgur.com/r/DIY/YBLeDlk

make your handwriting a font

[fargon]

Originally Posted by BigV

https://imgur.com/r/DIY/YBLeDlk

make your handwriting a font

Nobody wants my handwriting as a font.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Mine handwriting would be a secret cipher neither the NSA, nor North Korea, could break.

Ever wonder how Washington DC came about? It's pretty interesting.

You probably know that the “D.C.” in Washington, D.C., stands for “District of Columbia” and that the district is not part of any state. But do you know why America’s Founding Fathers placed such importance on creating a capital outside of any state? We owe it all to piles of unpaid bills.

[xoxoxoBruce]

A very interesting article about eyewitness reliability to crimes.

In an excellent new paper, Too Good to Be True, Lachlan J. Gunn et al. show that more evidence can reduce confidence. The basic idea is simple. We expect that in most processes there will normally be some noise so absence of noise suggests a kind of systemic failure. The police are familiar with one type of example. When the eyewitnesses to a crime all report exactly the same story that reduces confidence that the story is true. Eyewitness stories that match too closely suggests not truth but a kind a systemic failure, namely the witnesses have collaborated on telling a lie.

What Gunn et al. show is that the accumulation of consistent (non-noisy) evidence can reverse one’s confidence surprisingly quickly. Consider a police lineup but now consider a more likely cause of systemic failure than witness conspiracy. Suppose that there is a small probability, say 1%, that the police arrange the lineup, either on purpose or by accident, so that the “suspect” is the only one who is close to matching the description of the criminal. Now consider what happens to our rational (Bayesian) probability that the suspect is guilty as the number of eyewitnesses saying “that’s the guy” increases.

The first eyewitness to identify the suspect increases our confidence that the suspect is guilty and our confidence increases when the second and third eyewitness corroborate but when a fourth eyewitness points to the same man our rational confidence should actually decrease. Even though the systemic failure rate is only 1%, that small probability starts to weigh more heavily the more consistent (less noisy) the evidence becomes. The red line in the graph at right shows–using a 1% systemic failure rate and realistic probabilities of eyewitness identification–that after 3 witnesses more evidence decreases our confidence and when more than 10 witnesses identify the same suspect we should be less certain of guilt than when one witness identifies the suspect!

Bold mine.

[Griff]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

These emails show how upset NSA spies were with the film 'Enemy of the State'

The actual emails at the bottom of the article are an interesting read.

It didn't stop them from killing Paul Wellstone.

[Gravdigr]

Man, you can kill an awful lot of time over at HiConsumption, a digital lifestyle magazine.

Be sure to click the three four-bar-menu-thingy (upper left) for more categories.

I want almost everything they show/feature/review.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by Griff

It didn't stop them from killing Paul Wellstone.

You can kill the dreamer, but you can't kill the dream.
--Reverend Samuel Kyles

http://www.salon.com/2015/10/27/this...e_plane_crash/