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I am using the friends list here mosly to create a useful Friends page.

And this is my Friends of Friends page.

I filter my default Friends page somewhat since December 2005. This is my unfiltered Friends page. This is an "express selection" (about 20% of the volume).

Russian Virtual Keyboard by Paul Gorodyansky. Online translation by translate.ru. All tags of this journal.

LiveJournal notifications about new friends or new comments work only in some cases.

If I did not notice something, please leave a comment in the post below this one.

http://sci-humor.blogspot.com/2012/10/blog-post_24.html

"В начале не было ничего, только полная симметрия, и свободная калибровка летала над водами.

Потом отделил Бог целый спин от полуцелого, и повелел целому спину подчиняться статистике Бозе, а полуцелому статистике Ферми. И увидел он, что это хорошо.[...]"

I've imported it into LJ: http://sci-humour.livejournal.com/

http://users.livejournal.com/_rowan_tree_/tag/фото

Возьми ближайшую книгу.
Открой на странице 123.
Найди третье предложение.
Помести его в своём ЖЖ вместе с этими инструкциями.

So the entropy of the whole system is less then the entropy of the two coordinates added together, and the amount by which it is less is exactly the mutual information: I_mutual = S[X] + S[Y] - S[X, Y].

(via http://yan.livejournal.com/1509810.html)

I went through this journal and created tags for all posts in a rather eclectic fashion. I think some of them will be useful, for example

http://anhinga-anhinga.livejournal.com/tag/favorite

What I don't know is how to make it so that the tag pages use the same style and color scheme as the journal itself (this journal uses an old S1 style).

It would be nice to have a tool allowing to mark cool postings as one reads them and to aggregate them into something formatted similarly to a Friends page and to make that available on the Web.

One way to accomplish this is to make it possible to format all recent public memories of a user in a fashion similar to a Friends page. Another way would be to introduce a special "highlights" functionality. I made a suggestion to this effect in

suggestions. I also mentioned possible privacy concerns related to the more convenient access to public memories of a user.

So far the replies are only from the English-speaking segment of LJ (it seems that many Russian-speaking users try to use

sup_ru to discuss suggestions lately). So far people seem to like the idea of just making recent memories easily accessible in a format similar to Friends page, and they don't seem to think there is an additional privacy issue here, and they don't seem to think LJ needs a special "highlights" functionality. If you care about this particular issue, feel free to add your opinion here, so that the LJ team can take it into account:

http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/798436.html

I was in New York City last weekend -- there is a pretty nice light-and-music show at the Grand Central Terminal going through December. ( Read more... )

от функциональности "Мои гости":

Пользователь сможет отказаться от учета в этой статистике, но одновременно он не будет иметь возможности видеть эту статистику.

конечно, следовало сообразить до включения сервиса, что так надо сделать.. они, видимо, не очень грамотные.. но способны вести диалог и учитывать пожелания авторов журналов, что уже хороший признак..

I am trying to find archives of experimental raw data, such as logs from instruments measuring speed of certain chemical reactions, logs from radioactivity counters, etc..

People are writing a lot about Open Data, but the links to the actual archives of experimental data, especially archives containing unprocessed raw data or very lightly processed data, seem to be difficult to find..

I'll be grateful for any help..

"We'll be trying out a mechanism for publishing comments from a special subset of readers: those people or organizations who were actual participants in the story in question. Our long-term vision is that any participant will be able to send in their comments, and we'll show them next to the articles about the story. Comments will be published in full, without any edits, but marked as "comments" so readers know it's the individual's perspective, rather than part of a journalist's report."

via http://instapundit.com/archives2/007959.php

http://ansate.livejournal.com/326377.html
http://drdaeman.livejournal.com/55986.html

Очень интересная дискуссия:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/avva/1494841.html

They sometimes allow me to read an interesting text, which I would not be aware of otherwise.

Yuri I. Manin. Georg Cantor and his heritage

Found via the following negative review (in Russian):

http://www.livejournal.com/users/bbixob/37413.html

Dec 17, 2004: Anhinga (female) (photo)

( selected articles from Dec 17, 2004 - Jun 17, 2005 )

One of the benefits of paid accounts is that they provide a "Friends of Friends" page. This is especially interesting for those who like LiveJournal for its ability to make remixes via the mechanism of Friends page. This "Friends of Friends" page is quite public, that is, if an account has it, everyone can access it.

However, the standard LiveJournal format does not provide links to such "Friends of Friends" pages even for the accounts which have them, so an owner of a paid account might want to post such links for convenience.

So here is my Friends of Friends page.

Змеешейка -- Anhinga (darter, snakebird) по-русски.

Спасибо англо-русскому биологическому словарю. Где бы русско-английский достать?

The "primary" NASA site for monitoring MN₄ asteroid silently dropped the number of observations from 176 to 118 and also dropped the impact probability from 2% to 0.002%. I can't find a single "secondary" site which noticed this yet, although they did follow every slight increase in this probability before.

Besides wondering what's going on here, this story is interesting from the angle of studying information creation and propagation. First of all, even the drastic decrease in probability is not too welcome by people who write about this, because it's boring, and so this is not reported quickly, while even a slight increase is of interest (anticipation of more to come).

Now why on Earth NASA suddenly kicked out 58 observation points (a third), and why there is still no commentary at all (it was quite a few hours) ? Fake, unreliable, statistically incorrect results ? Good results dropped by mistake ? (And I suppose one can produce at least a dozen juicy conspiracy theories out of this.)

UPDATE: The Wikipedia article now reports this, and explains that precovered data were used to obtain the corrected estimates. So asteroid-wise the story has probably lost the significance. The Wikipedia article notes that the choice of 118 observations remains unexplained (probably one of those statistical things, trust them or not).

UPDATE #2. Someone at Slashdot offers a reasonable explanation: "Now, because they have ruled out an impact in 2029, some of the observations actually don't contribute to determining whether an impact will occur on the other, later dates (2037, 2044, etc). There have been hundreds of observations but the only ones relevant to the current potential impacts are counted on that NASA page." (Also a virtually unlimited quantity of conspiracy theories in that Slashdot thread, of course :-) )