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		<title>A neat trick for emailing web pages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I tend to email interesting articles to my wife, who normally does all her reading on her iPhone. I've found that if I send her a link, she will rarely click on it to read it, but if I email her the actual text of the article, she will read it. Since I do most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oscarbonilla.com/2010/07/a-neat-trick-for-emailing-web-pages/</link>
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		<title>Think, don&#8217;t Blink!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm a big fan of Malcolm Gladwell, but I classify his books more as fiction than science. My problem with Gladwell as a science writer is that he always seems to be very selective on the research he presents to his readers. Thus he presents half the issue and makes it up to be "proven" [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oscarbonilla.com/2010/06/think-dont-blink/</link>
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		<title>iPhone killer? Again?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a mistake that I've seen companies competing with the iPhone make more than once. Comparing the currently shipping version of the iPhone with their not-quite-shipping-yet phone. Palm did it. They put out a kick-ass product that would've blown the original iPhone out of the water or at least given it a run for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oscarbonilla.com/2010/05/iphone-killer-again/</link>
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		<title>Lucia de Berk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is infuriating. In June 2004, Lucia was convicted of 7 murders and 3 attempted murders by the Court of Appeal in The Hague. She was given a life sentence; in view of the lack of evidence, a perplexing sentence. There are no eye witnesses, there is no direct incriminating evidence. Lucia was never seen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oscarbonilla.com/2010/04/lucia-de-berk/</link>
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		<title>Pigeons Beat Students at Probabilities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting. Pigeons outperform humas at the Monty Hall problem. First the pigeons: Each pigeon was faced with three lit keys, one of which could be pecked for food. At the first peck, all three keys switched off and after a second, two came back on including the bird’s first choice. The computer, playing the part [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oscarbonilla.com/2010/04/pigeons-beat-students-at-probabilities/</link>
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		<title>Probabilities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Introduction For the past couple of weeks I've been trying to write an article explaining briefly what p-values are and what they really measure. Turns out there are enough subtleties involved that I keep writing and writing and haven't published anything. So I've decided that it's time for a change of tactic. I'm going to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oscarbonilla.com/2010/04/probabilities/</link>
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		<title>Mandoline my ass&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[...all you need is a sharp knife. I just got The French Laundry Cookbook. It's awesome.]]></description>
		<link>http://oscarbonilla.com/2010/02/mandoline-my-ass/</link>
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		<title>Unleash the power of the atom&#8230; to boil water?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm going to go off on a limb and blog about something I know absolutely nothing about. Power generation. So I'm reading the news recently and I read that the U.S. is going to invest in building a couple of nuclear power plants. Now, I don't know much about nuclear power plants or power generation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oscarbonilla.com/2010/02/unleash-the-power-of-the-atom-to-boil-water/</link>
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		<title>Enjoying Life (a little more)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a post about a simple trick you can use to enjoy the things you like a little more and/or make them enjoyable to others. But first, let's try a little experiment. Please listen to this piece of classical music. It's only 47 seconds long. Now write down some measure of how much you enjoyed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oscarbonilla.com/2010/01/enjoying-life-a-little-more/</link>
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		<title>Proof that P=NP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I was browsing Concrete Mathematics by Don Knuth et al, and I found a proof that P=NP for small N[1]. However if you make P=0, the size of N doesn't matter. So if P=0, then P = NP. Where is my money? Specifically for N=1. It's in the margin of the book]]></description>
		<link>http://oscarbonilla.com/2009/10/proof-that-pnp/</link>
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		<title>The Two Envelopes Problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent thread in reddit about the two envelopes problem reminded me of how unintuitive probabilities can be. There is a fundamental flaw with how the original post worded the problem: You and I both have envelopes filled with money. My envelope contains either double or half the amount of money that’s in yours. If you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oscarbonilla.com/2009/10/the-two-envelopes-problem/</link>
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		<title>The Monty Hall problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After all the positive feedback I got from Visualizing Bayes' theorem, I thought I'd post my explanation of the Monty Hall problem. I was fascinated for a while with this problem because at first it doesn't seem to make any sense. And most of the explanations I've seen have a magic feel to them. I've [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oscarbonilla.com/2009/05/the-monty-hall-problem/</link>
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		<title>Visualizing Bayes&#8217; theorem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently came up with what I think is an intuitive way to explain Bayes' Theorem. I searched in google for a while and could not find any article that explains it in this particular way. Of course there's the wikipedia page, that long article by Yudkowsky, and a bunch of other explanations and tutorials. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oscarbonilla.com/2009/05/visualizing-bayes-theorem/</link>
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		<title>Is that possible?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I normally read the good math bad math blog, where Mark Chu-Carroll debunks crackpots that try to hide their crazyness behind bad math. A while ago, he posted an article called "Why Math?", where he discusses how math allows you to "without ambiguity, prove that something is true or false". While I agree with Mark, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oscarbonilla.com/2008/12/is-that-possible/</link>
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		<title>Simple Guide to Complexity Theory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After reading Jeff's terribly misguided post about NP-completeness I thought to myself: "If Jeff, who seems to be completely clueless about complexity theory, can write a blog post about it then so can I." So without further ado, here's ob's complex guide to simplifying complexity theory. First of all let's get the definitions out of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oscarbonilla.com/2008/11/simple-guide-to-complexity-theory/</link>
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