by | § ¶ | trackbackAttack Of The Porn Bot
Ok I've had enough of the porn bots visiting the site. The first time was funny, the second time raised a giggle, but flooding my referrer list is not. I've blocked the ip address of the originator. No more education for you asshole!Update: Here are some other people who have been looking into this very same problem on their own sites.. it seems that these porn sites are trying to improve their google rankings by having their URLs shown on as many other blogs/sites as they can.
I can't get access to my htaccess file right now so the assbot will be free till Tuesday. grrr.
by | § ¶ | trackbackWired Sengkang
I'm quite pleased to have found out about local community sites like this and to a lesser extent, this one as well. Possibly because of the relatively young crowd living in such new estates.Anyone else know of such sites? I know http://www.tampines.com gives me something totally unrelated though..
by | § ¶ | trackbackDr. Love's Super Baby Making Show!
I hope that's just a direct translation from chinese and not for real. Actually, I hope the whole show isn't for real."The prize: $100,000 - and a baby. Ten couples from around the world could compete in a reality TV show in Singapore to see who can procreate first, the city-state's self-styled sex guru said Thursday.
Only in Singapore eh? Full article here.
by | § ¶ | trackbackLeicester City Mini Tour
Here are some photos we took during our cycling trip to somewhere out of the usual places we go in Leicester. After spending 3 bloody years here, now then I realise that they are all easily reached by bikes.MSc Finance Study Group - The famous studious 4 at Abbey Park. From left to right, it’s me from Singapore, Soo from Malaysia, Hervé from France and Amila from Sri Lanka.
Quack Quack - The ducks swayed from left to right, pretending they were just taking a leisure walk. In actual fact, they were waiting for us to serve them food.
More Quacks - And the entire duck family appeared from nowhere. Ivan was heard grumbling, "Sainsbury's ducks are not as fat as them".
Leicester's Pride - The one and only National Space Centre of the United Kingdom. Remember the cheap Beagle 2 that got lost in Mars? Well it’s a joint product by the space centre and University of Leicester's Astronomy Department. And the rest is (embarrassing) history.
Hervé and the Steam Shovel - Beside the space centre is the Abbey pumping station. It is Leicester's museum of Science and Technology, aka toilet sewage museum. I had fun flushing the toilet. Anyway, the crane look-alike in the picture is actually a coal-powered steam shovel and was used in the mining quarry many many decades back. There are only 3 of its kind left in the UK.
The Cyclists 1 - La la la.
The Cyclists 2 - Dum dee dee dum.
Steam Beam Engine - This is the largest working steam beam engine in the UK. It was used to pump sewage many many decades back.
Bath Tub - Told you it’s a toilet museum. Check out the big showerhead!
Washing Machine - What people used to wash clothes in the 1920s.
Swan Lake - A view from De Monfort University's dorm. King Lear (first king of Leicester) was said to be buried under the River Soar, many many centuries back.
Row Row Row Your Boat - Students from De Monfort University get all the fun.
by | § ¶ | trackbackAsymmetric Dominance and Confidence in Dyadic Games
Remeber the experiment I did? Well the study is out and here's what was said..."As expected, asymmetrically dominated strategies were chosen only rarely, with a relative frequency of just over 1 per cent. We expected the asymmetrically dominated strategies, when they were included, to boost players' confidence in choosing the strategies that dominated them, even when the dominated strategies were visible but unavailable for choice by
either player.
In half the games, this effect emerged strongly and was statistically significant. In the other six games, it didn't happen, but for technical reasons that we can see clearly. In the six games in which the effect emerged strongly, players' self-rated confidence in their decisions, on a scale from 0 ("not at all confident") to 10 ("totally confident"), was significantly higher in the groups in which the asymmetrically dominated strategies available for choice or and visible but unavailable for choice than in the group in which there were only two strategies and no dominance.
The experiment worked out very well. The researchers are happy with the findings and are presenting them at a workshop in Oxford in May and international conference in Paris in July. An article has also been submitted for publication in an academic journal."