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		<title>Russian elections: Electronic ballot boxes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got my hands on a list of precincts where electronic ballot boxes were used. An electronic ballot box (in Russian they are called KOIB which stands for “complex for processing of electoral ballots”) can scan ballots, store the counts in memory, save them to a flash card, print out the tally. They are typically [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbzippo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8013872&amp;post=655&amp;subd=bbzippo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ramsey numbers, quantum computing, hype</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[World&#8217;s Largest Quantum Computation Uses 84 Qubits: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27483/?p1=blogs That’s cool, but the article totally misleads the readers as to what actually was computed. Bian and co say the calculation for R(8,2) used 84 qubits, of which 28 were used in the computation and the rest for error correction. It took just 270 milliseconds. The result [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbzippo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8013872&amp;post=625&amp;subd=bbzippo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Xworder used to hold the top (2nd-3rd place) position in Google search results for find words from letters. It’s still at the 3rd place on Bing, but Google now only mentions Xworder at the bottom of the 2nd page. It took me a while to understand what’s going on. Apparently, the GoDaddy server that hosts [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbzippo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8013872&amp;post=622&amp;subd=bbzippo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Russian Elections and Social Conformity: take 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is another attempt to test the social conformity theory with 2011 Russian Elections, using Stephen Coleman’s methodology. I’m going to present basically the same data that I presented here but with more statistical rigor. I also show that after removing all ballots cast for United Russia from the valid vote count, the remaining data [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbzippo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8013872&amp;post=614&amp;subd=bbzippo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Russian Elections: the facts (?)</title>
		<link>http://bbzippo.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/russian-elections-the-facts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 05:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, all statisticians, mathematicians, sociologists, politologists and analysts of all sorts can take some rest. There is no need to mine the data or come up with models in order to detect and measure election fraud anymore. Thanks to http://ruelect.com/en/ The folks are collecting copies of the tally sheets (“voting protocols”) obtained by observers on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbzippo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8013872&amp;post=590&amp;subd=bbzippo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Russian elections and the social conformity model</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 05:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: I found a bug in my calculations which resulted in discarded data points. I don&#8217;t know how big is the impact. (I&#8217;d guess that the &#8220;Coleman Factors&#8221; below are inflated) Don&#8217;t take the graphs below at face value. I&#8217;ll update as soon as I can.  Bugs have been fixed. UPDATE: I’ve posted a more rigorous [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbzippo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8013872&amp;post=573&amp;subd=bbzippo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Russian elections: heads and tails</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the previous post I separated the voting precincts into 3 categories and now I’m going to use 2 of them – C2 and C3 to take a look at the correlation between the vote ratio and turnout ratio. People say that such correlation must never be there in honest elections. If it’s there – [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbzippo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8013872&amp;post=557&amp;subd=bbzippo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Russian Elections: dissecting the data</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of the previous post I demonstrated that all the voting precincts can be separated into 3 categories with very distinct statistics. Now I’d like to give it another try. First, why 3 categories? Look at the plots below (I presented them in the previous post too) – turnout ratio by precinct size [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbzippo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8013872&amp;post=549&amp;subd=bbzippo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Elections and statistics</title>
		<link>http://bbzippo.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/elections-and-statistics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 03:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everybody and their brother is demonstrating their skills in statistics by doing analyses of the 2011 Russian parliamentary elections. Some of them are interesting. And some are unfortunately “lazy research”. I’d like to briefly comment on the main points made in those analyses. Those points are mostly concerning “anomalies” in the distribution of the vote [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbzippo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8013872&amp;post=514&amp;subd=bbzippo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lazy research leads to conspiracy theories</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some researches want to produce loud results without putting much effort into actual research. Lazy Researcher: I have computed the distribution of humans by weight and it looks so weird! Obviously, there are aliens and cyborgs among humans! Diligent Researcher: I have modeled the distribution of humans by weight taking into account age, sex and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbzippo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8013872&amp;post=488&amp;subd=bbzippo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 02:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I often use batch files for quick and dirty scripting tasks. Much more often than the modern scripting tools like Windows Scripting Host and Powershell. Because I’m familiar with the concepts of batch scripting since DOS 3.0. Figuring out how to accomplish a simple task using the modern tools would take me longer than writing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbzippo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8013872&amp;post=483&amp;subd=bbzippo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The place of HTML5 in Windows 8</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, a rant. “HTML5” is a buzzword. When you hear people talk about “HTML5”, what they talk about is: Canvas and WebGL, Plugin-free video, Excessive JavaScript, CSS3, HTML5 Most people don’t care about business app development. They mostly get excited about the ability to present graphics and video and to program simple games without plugins [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbzippo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8013872&amp;post=479&amp;subd=bbzippo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Neutrinos aren&#8217;t slowing down</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 06:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wasn’t the only one who had suspicions about waveform matching in the OPERA experiment: http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.3284 However, “A new measurement of the neutrino speed is being conducted using 2 ns long bunches spaced by 500 ns from the CNGS beam. In such a measurement the effects discussed here would no longer apply.” According to rumors [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbzippo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8013872&amp;post=473&amp;subd=bbzippo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What did Euler know?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 03:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I heard a legend that I refuse to believe. It goes like this: Euler studied irreducible factorizations of polynomials . He noticed that all coefficients that appear in the factors are 1, –1 and 0. E.g. . He attempted to prove that that’s always the case, but he couldn’t. He computed all factorizations up to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbzippo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8013872&amp;post=461&amp;subd=bbzippo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry and Geometry: inside the donut</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nikolay Oleynikov was a Russian poet-absurdist. He was executed by Stalin’s regime in 1937. Here is my attempt to translate one of his short poems: O donut, crafted by a baker! Your true high purpose wasn&#8217;t known to your maker! You seem so simple, hiding secrets under cover: The convoluted clockwork, the beauty of a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbzippo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8013872&amp;post=454&amp;subd=bbzippo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hilbert&#8217;s 10th problem and incompleteness</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 06:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The negative solution of Hilbert’s 10th problem is one of the most striking manifestations of the incompleteness of arithmetic. Undecidable propositions don’t have to look “paradoxical” like the Gödel statement. And they don’t have to involve unimaginably large structures like the Goodstein sequence. There are undecidable statements that simply talk about existence of solutions of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbzippo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8013872&amp;post=445&amp;subd=bbzippo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The chemistry Nobel Prize celebrates math</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 23:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The discovery of quasicrystals is deeply rooted in math. Not only because it’s all about symmetries. It appears that aperiodic tilings were discovered (not by Penrose!) as a result of studying a decidability problem!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbzippo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8013872&amp;post=443&amp;subd=bbzippo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doubting the Consistency: infinite vs. unimaginably large</title>
		<link>http://bbzippo.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/doubting-the-consistency-infinite-vs-unimaginably-large/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 06:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The consistency of P remains an open problem.” Ed Nelson. “There was also a Beaver, that paced on the deck, Or would sit making lace in the bow: And had often (the Bellman said) saved them from wreck, Though none of the sailors knew how.” L. Carroll, “The Hunting of the Snark”. So, how could [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbzippo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8013872&amp;post=426&amp;subd=bbzippo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nelson withdraws his claim</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 17:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edward Nelson has withdrawn his proof of inconsistency of Arithmetic. http://www.cs.nyu.edu/pipermail/fom/2011-October/015832.html<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbzippo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8013872&amp;post=421&amp;subd=bbzippo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Note on proofs of inconsistency</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 00:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many discussions going on around the web in the wake of E. Nelson’s claim about inconsistency of PA . While I can’t contribute on a professional level, I’d like to make a trivial note: Nelson is not trying to prove the statement “the theory is inconsistent” within the theory itself. Such a proof [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbzippo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8013872&amp;post=420&amp;subd=bbzippo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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