In the not-too-distant past, I had the misfortune of being around probability trolls. Those who would exploit the bugs in the definition of probability to produce ridiculous answers to fermi-type problems.

Q. What is the probability that there is life on Uranus?

A. 0.5 – either there is life or there isn’t.

Q. What is the probability that the earth will be destroyed because of the LHC?

A. 0.5 – either it will be destroyed or it won’t.

And so on.

The source of this trolling is contained in the naive definition of probability :

P(A) = |E(A)|/|S|

And it pisses me off. But I guess that means that the troll’s mission has been accomplished.

don’t get their panties in a twist over a set of system calls.

• Dicking around with the Local Database on WP7 : http://wp7explorer.codeplex.com/documentation
• IR-Book - http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/

I just finished reading this masterpiece :

After 400 years, I still find it incredibly relevant.

• There’s something called the Orion Correlation Theory. The hypothesis is that the Pyramids of giza are lined up in alignment with the stars in Orion’s belt.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_correlation_theory

Current Situation :
Admitted : CMU LTI
Waiting to hear from : UWash, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Princeton,

• The human ear is nearly insensitive to phase : (try out the applet on this page).