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by Patient0 15y ago
And in general, supply/demand curves are also not necessarily linear. A 10% reduction in the supply of oil could result in a tripling of the price. A 10% reduction in the supply of "awesome programmers" might cause a large increase in their
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by Patient0 15y ago
I'd love to know where this guy works now. I've always thought it would be cool to do computer graphics programming but never been sure which sort of companies pay for guys like this to work for them. All I could find was this: http://c0de
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by Patient0 15y ago
The similarity between the stories struck me: particularly that they both stressed the point about reports being circulated with no authors at all... OK it doesn't prove that he made it all up, but I would be willing to bet some money on it
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by Patient0 15y ago
"This tendency reached the height of comedy inside the strategies division, where some of the quants published academic papers on the more theoretical aspects of their work. If an author quit Goldman though, his name would be removed from t
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by Patient0 16y ago
Alas for me (in IE8) this isn't working. It doesn't seem to actually "execute".
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by Patient0 16y ago
Don't you mean "Great Ormond Street children's hospitals" ? You gave money to them but don't even remember their name properly?
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by Patient0 16y ago
I have a friend who is very afraid of flying, so this sentence intrigued me: "I was afraid of flying for a long time and could only travel vicariously." I'd love to see a PG essay on a) why he was afraid of flying b) how he overcame the fea
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by Patient0 17y ago
I thought that if the universe is "open" then it is only the visible universe that is finite, and the rest is actually infinite. i.e. there's stars "all the way" it's just that we can only see stuff 14 billion light years away. Another poin
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by Patient0 17y ago
Don't forget that there's also an O(1) closed form solution (and in fact you can derive a closed form solution for any linear recurrence relation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrence_relation ). This is more useful though for things
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by Patient0 17y ago
I thought all that was necessary was to place warning signs. i.e. if you leave a big sign that says "warning this house is booby trapped and unsafe" that's sufficient to protect you against a burglar who sues you for the leg that your sprin
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by Patient0 17y ago
The "Is my husband a cheat" riddle is actually very well known. It's just the Blue Eyed Islander puzzle in disguise: ( http://xkcd.com/blue_eyes.html ) also known as the Muddy Children puzzle. Discussed here too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by Patient0 17y ago
And even if they didn't have the cash on hand, they could probably get a bridge loan against the expected donations provided they can provide proof that the "the money is on the way".
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by Patient0 17y ago
This is a valid legal point, but not a valid moral one. In a normal society, we recognize that being "legal" and being "moral" are different things, and that you cannot and generally shouldn't try to legislate for morality. We expect indivi
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by Patient0 17y ago
For a good counter counter example to this guy's rant: Functional Payout Framework used for exotic options pricing at Barclays Capital, developed entirely in Haskell: http://www.lexifi.com/downloads/frankau.pdf
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by Patient0 17y ago
What I found confusing was the name. "InvSqrt" reads to me as "Inverse square root"... Well, the inverse function of the square root function is just to square the number! Apparently, what they meant was "1/sqrt", so ideally the function sh
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by Patient0 17y ago
Note also just how many refer to Terence Tao's web pages... there is excellent stuff there.
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by Patient0 17y ago
Ouch! 100% correct. I'll think more before I post next time.
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by Patient0 17y ago
This seems like more of a technology award than a Physics award. How long has it been since a pure theoretical physics Nobel has been awarded? Doesn't that say something?
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by Patient0 17y ago
Japan engaged in quantitative easing for a decade and never had inflation. Just because they print money doesn't mean it goes into circulation. It's currently sitting in bank vaults, and the increase reserve requirements agreed by the G20 w
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by Patient0 17y ago
Ironically, this guy doesn't understand that the stimulus spending is the only thing that has stopped the economy doing what happened in 1930, when a real depression happened. http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/a-dark-age-of-ma.