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by Patient0 8y ago
Maybe it's PR: http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by Patient0 8y ago
Minor nitpick: buy a call and sell a put to make a synthetic forward position
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by Patient0 8y ago
I would recommend reading "How to get rich" by Felix Dennis. He had a sense of a humour, but was quite wise too.
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by Patient0 8y ago
Here's a good explanation of what the sovereign money initiative is (and why it is probably a bad idea) from the chairman of the Swiss central bank: https://snb.ch/en/mmr/speeches/id/ref_20180116_tjn
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by Patient0 8y ago
This may help with that: https://snb.ch/en/mmr/speeches/id/ref_20180116_tjn
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by Patient0 8y ago
I am currently using Duolingo to learn French and finding it tremendously useful as a way to practise. It's only been for the last 3 weeks or so but I feel that it is working much better for me than if I was trying to learn from videos
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by Patient0 9y ago
To me there's a lot of similarities between this and type inference. "First, as we step through this program, we don’t think about specific values of x like 13. Instead, we think about the set of possible values x might take on. A
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by Patient0 9y ago
"The subject of my speech is the creation of money in our economy" - he then literally talks about it being created by the act of issuing loans which are credited to individual bank accounts - most money that is created is not
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by Patient0 9y ago
Just to clarify: you’re saying that 1pb - 1 petabyte - 1000 TB - is small?
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How money is created [pdf](snb.ch)
2 points by Patient0 9y ago|3 comments
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How is the world ruled?(glineq.blogspot.com)
1 points by Patient0 9y ago|0 comments
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by Patient0 9y ago
On the other hand, if you had simply invested equally in those four names I think you might still be doing very well despite three of them being worthless now. AMZN is trading at 15 times what it was at the height of the dot com bubble. ht
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by Patient0 9y ago
Just curious: why only American adults? (I am Australian)
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by Patient0 9y ago
He touches on it - but I’d love to see an intuitive explanation of why the response of each frequency to the input function is linearly independent. i.e the fact that Fourier transform of the sum is equal to the sum of the Fourier transform
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by Patient0 9y ago
This explanation with examples in Python is also pretty awesome IMHO: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2017/on-recursion-continuation...
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by Patient0 9y ago
She kept describing Linda and tuple-spaces as being so "weird" (she must have said the word "weird" 8 times) but it sounded like typical distributed messaging (e.g. Tibco Rendezvous) to me - not weird at all.
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The school beneath the wave: the unimaginable tragedy of Japan’s tsunami(theguardian.com)
2 points by Patient0 9y ago|0 comments
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by Patient0 9y ago
Great article - I'm impressed that it covers every discovery I've painstakingly worked through over the years, all succinctly expressed on one page: Java arrays, immutable lists and even the fact that Eiffel got it wrong (which I
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by Patient0 9y ago
Yes but it's a myth: http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/mobileart.asp?article...
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by Patient0 9y ago
"This will take about 16 minutes, so you probably want to switch your emulator into “Warp Mode”. " I wonder what an equivalent guide written 30 years in the future about today's software would say. "At this point I rea
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by Patient0 10y ago
I didn't follow this bit (from Part 2): "This requires a bit more geometry. Recall from last time that we detect an intersection by constructing a right triangle between the camera origin and the center of the sphere. We can calcu
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by Patient0 10y ago
I've only read the introduction so far - but already it has taught me something. As a lay-person I am finding it very readable and accessible. I'd always thought that subtyping inference was only something you need for OO style la
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by Patient0 10y ago
Yeah but realising that two "nodes" of the graph are connected requires doing a set intersection, which I concluded was quite expensive to do between all possible sets. i.e. building the "graph" was an expensive operatio
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by Patient0 10y ago
The second example provides one more input set (8,10). So the first example has only 3 sets as input, the second example has 4 sets.
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by Patient0 10y ago
Thanks for that - I'll take a look!
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by Patient0 10y ago
OK - but here's a genuine problem that came up the other day in my work (reconciling two datasets - we have various many-to-one mappings of ids that we then want to reconcile against each other). I think it's quite a neat computer
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by Patient0 10y ago
Here's how I did this in .Net: http://patient0.github.io/FirstClassLisp/ As other's have mentioned, TCO and first class continuations tend to go together
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by Patient0 10y ago
It's not just "a 90-day ban on immigrants coming from war-torn countries" - the fact that Christians from those countries are exempt makes it explicitly a "muslim ban".
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by Patient0 10y ago
Also worth a read (and also in the original articles comments): http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html
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by Patient0 10y ago
Yes I thought that was the most interest part - it was the last 20 minutes or so.

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