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Airicist
19th January 2016, 16:45
Chris Westbury (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?13816)
Airicist
19th January 2016, 16:46
https://youtu.be/fMfpw5us_7Y
The Math of Mirth
Published on Nov 27, 2015
How do you measure something as complex and personal as humour? University of Alberta researchers have developed the first mathematical method of doing just that—and it might not be quite as personal as we think, says U of A psychology professor Chris Westbury.
"How funny is this word? The 'snunkoople' effect (https://www.ualberta.ca/science/news/2015/november/the-snunkoople-effect.html)"
Alberta researchers establish the world’s first mathematical theory of humour
by Kristy Condon
November 25, 2015
Airicist
19th January 2016, 20:55
Article "Telling the world’s least funny jokes: On the quantification of humor as entropy (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749596X15001023)"
by Chris Westburya, Cyrus Shaoulb, Gail Moroschana, Michael Ramscar
January 2016