Something mentioned briefly in this paper but which was not explored in detail was the idea of using the eigenvalue of the principal eigenvector to represent total goodness in the world.
Whatever food a man eats in this world, that [food] eats him in the other world.
Thus fable reports that the fair Grimalkin, whom Venus, at the desire of a passionate lover, converted from a cat into a fine woman, no sooner perceived a mouse than, mindful of her former sport, and still retaining her pristine nature, she leaped from the bed of her husband to pursue the little animal.
But in favor of the argument that the queen did not actually copulate with the stallion are the considerations that most of the texts instruct the priests to kill the horse first and that the ceremony would be hard to do with a live stallion.
In the case of a butterfly, flipping it turns it upside down.
We froze the first man, the first woman, and the first child. Unfortunately, none of them had any money.
When someone annoys Yajnavalkya by asking where the heart is lodged, he replies, impatiently, “In the body, you idiot! If it were anywhere other than in ourselves, dogs would eat it, or birds would tear it up.”
As has been said by others we statisticians have a lot of difficulties trying to `sell our wares’ to physicists. Physicists are renowned for their arrogance. They believe there is nothing much to know about statistics and that they can easily invent it for themselves if necessary. And one has to admit they are dammed clever and for instance do mathematical calculations with more ease and speed and originality than most mathematicians. This is certainly some cause for us to adopt some humility when dealing with them. The sheer amount of things they know is amazing and the finely tuned intuition about physical reality with which they home in on the right answer despite getting logico-mathematical arguments usually wrong is amazing too.
(Richard Gill on teaching statistics to physicists, quoted by Cosma Shalizi here)
(Posted partly for the amusing meanness but largely for the reminder that even within “mathy” academic subjects there are a number of different thinking styles, and that being good at these subjects is not the same as just being good at logic)
The story is at times inconsistent and confusing, as if the author did not know whether to make Varney a literal vampire or simply a human who acts like one.
The sole member of the German darkwave band Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows, Anna-Varney Cantodea, adopted her name from Varney the Vampire.