Omar GhanemThe Craven SonShe looked at me in wonderment, in amazement, when I told her that; then she scalded me with the hot tea.Oct 27Oct 27
Omar GhanemMidnight RamblingsIn which three friends have a light conversation at midnight.Oct 26Oct 26
Omar GhanemIQ And The Myth Of A General Intelligence FactorIn 1904, Charles Spearman (he of the Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient fame) started the whole bloody thing.Oct 26Oct 26
Omar GhaneminData And BeyondThe EM Algorithm And Mixture Distributions: A Match Made In HeavenThat’s when mixture models comes in. If one poisson isn’t going to work, then let’s use two, or three, or four, or even more.Sep 29Sep 29
Omar GhanemOn The Origin Of Imaginary numbers And How It Relates To PlatonismShould humanity go extinct (a by no means improbable event) would there no longer be such thing as number and quantity?Sep 5Sep 5
Omar GhanemThe Strange Case Of Joan Peters, And Her Denial Of Something Called PalestinianInstead of killing them, they think, let’s just erase them from existence by sheer force of will.Aug 272Aug 272
Omar GhanemK.J. Parker, Most Underrated Fantasy Writer Of All Time?‘I was going to cut his hand off and then walk away, leaving him standing there, in front of everybody.’Aug 221Aug 221
Omar GhanemThe New Historians In Israel And Their CancellationWe all live inside fictional narratives that we have invented. Nations are much the same.Aug 203Aug 203
Omar GhanemTorture, Rape And Sodomy Of Palestinians In Israeli Prisons: Welcome To HellNo one spoke. We couldn’t look at each other. I asked myself: “What happened? Why is this happening to us?”Aug 148Aug 148
Omar GhanemMonte Carlo Integration: Implementation and TheoryNumerical Integration with the Monte Carlo method.Apr 22Apr 22