BrentRitterbeck

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by BrentRitterbeck 17y ago
It's not the school, it's the fire-in-the-belly that matters the most. Some people are driven to excel. Their drive focuses all of their energy on whatever topic they are pursuing. They want to know their field better than anyone else.
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I read the title and laughed. I laughed because I worked at a major U.S. bank, and if you went to the bathroom during an unscheduled break, people wondered where you were.
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Perhaps they should first improve the quality of their services that aim to replace MS Office.
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I understand that. My sarcasm was apparently a failed attempt at being somewhat humorous after a long week.
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I have seen this across many sites. For some reason, people view Taibbi as some kind of saint. You can't say anything good about Goldman, or any other Wall Street company, without being severely criticized. When you ask for credible evid
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<sarcasm> Surely any robot built by the U.S. government will be bound by Asimov's three laws of robotics. </sarcasm>
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Do they offer some kind of numerical analysis class cross-listed with the mathematics department? This is a class I wish I would have picked up. I now have to teach myself numerical analysis, and there is so much material to choose from t
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I in no way intend to start one of those conversations that ultimately end up in a flame war over which operating system is better. With that said, I don't think Microsoft has killed anything related to Linux. I'll elaborate by presenting
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Are you familiar with the work being done at Stanford on music? I saw a special on TV (I think it was on Nova Science Now) about the group. They are doing some interesting things in terms of making new instruments out of things they find
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I find reading other code is a great way to learn. I'm working through both Quantlib and GNU Scientific Library to learn numerical methods that can be used in finance. Theory is one thing, but when you see an actual implementation of it,
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There would be a huge market for things like this. My father collects multiple copies of war toys (things ranging from Micro Machines all the way up to planes with three feet wingspans). He's said that good ones are hard to come by. With
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There's no credible basis for any of this news about Goldman. Taibbi wrote up a sensationalist piece in Rolling Stone and the other tin-foil caps followed. If this is such big news, why is not reported in the mainstream business publicati
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Please forgive my ignorance, but I still don't understand how this could live up to everything the article says it could do. I am specifically referring to the part of the article that mentions MS Office. I use Excel heavily when I am work
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The economics prize is not a Nobel prize.
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Thanks for the response. I'll now pose a different question. Do people in this community keep their ideas out of the patent records, or do they patent? I come from a finance background and have recently returned to school to pursue an MSF
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As a community that does a lot of work dealing with algorithms, I'm curious as to how others feel about this. I think it is important to protect trade secrets (and algorithms would certainly fall under "trade secrets" for some products), b
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I submitted the link because Polgar's father basically hacked his daughter's brain. I thought it would be appropriate for discussion here.
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My Brilliant Brain [video](video.google.com)
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