Mark Huber and Sarah Schott prepared a lecture called “Using TPA [the Tootsie Pop Algorithm] for Monte Carlo integration.” The authors are at Claremont McKenna College and Duke University, respectively. You can see their presentation online, if you want to. The algorithm can be used to try to answer the [somewhat ill-defined] question: How many licks […]
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Towards a robust nipple detector
Increases in raw computing power and novel algorithmic techniques have enabled outstanding advances in image processing since 1999, when Drs. Forsyth and Fleck developed the first computerised system for Automatic Detection of Human Nudes. Now, researchers at the Institute for Infocomm Research, I²R (pronounced as i-squared-r), which is part of A*STAR, Singapore, have refined the […]
AIR U.S. Presidential Election Algorithm Verified Again
AIR U.S. Presidential Election Algorithm Verified Again by Eric Schulman and Daniel Debowy For the third election in a row, the Annals of Improbable Research U.S. Presidential Election Algorithm ( see Debowy and Schulman, AIR Online, 20 October 2003 and Schulman and Debowy, AIR Online, 11 August 2012) correctly predicted the outcome of the United States presidential election. […]
Licking the Spoonerism Problem
The Spoonerism Problem was first outlined by K. Tsichlas, M. Bender, and the Algorithmic Design Group (ADG) of King’s College, UK, at London Stringology Day 2005. (LSD 2005) (see note below §) It was named in honour of William Archibald Spooner (22 July 1844 – 29 August 1930) and can be defined thus : “Whether […]
