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by Rod 17y ago
And it's written by someone who has over 40 years of experience in climate modeling... Have you even read the article??
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Global Warming Delusions(online.wsj.com)
103 points by Rod 17y ago|97 comments
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The Jaguar and the Fox: Murray Gell-Mann and Richard Feynman (2000)(theatlantic.com)
49 points by Rod 17y ago|5 comments
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The Pirate Pose(portfolio.com)
1 points by Rod 17y ago|0 comments
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by Rod 17y ago
Unfortunately most people fail to realize that. In the last few months, bashing bankers has become a socially acceptable norm... and I don't know whether that anger is directed at investment bankers themselves (you know, the ones who do c
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by Rod 17y ago
Do you have any theory on why traders burn out so quickly? I am genuinely curious about it...
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by Rod 17y ago
Sweden is a prime example of that...
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Finite-dimensional Feynman Diagrams(ams.org)
3 points by Rod 17y ago|0 comments
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Card Shuffling - The Riffle Shuffle(cornellmath.wordpress.com)
3 points by Rod 17y ago|0 comments
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by Rod 17y ago
Prof. Lipton is, after all, a professor. From his blog, it seems that he truly likes teaching and exposing ideas. An excerpt from his blog: "I have worked in the area of theory of computation since 1973. I find the whole area exciting and
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The Edit Distance Problem(rjlipton.wordpress.com)
39 points by Rod 17y ago|13 comments
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by Rod 17y ago
Dude, I am half-Brazilian and I have lived in Brazil when I was a kid. Yes, there are a lot of ignorant yanks out there, but I am not one of them. My point has little to do with Brazil or Brazilians. The point is that people with little tec
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by Rod 17y ago
I think tsally made a very good point, and I think you're reacting emotionally. His comment was not an attack against Brazil. I don't think tsally's point was that Brazilians are impoverished. The point he was trying to make was that if som
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by Rod 17y ago
Uhmmm, shouldn't the operator p be operating on some function? I don't know what v/i means either, but it looks like an operator to me: you apply it to function i and you obtain v , LOL. This stuff is trippy!
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by Rod 17y ago
If x is a function, what does 1/x mean? The inverse of operator p is indeed 1/p (assuming that the integrator has zero initial condition) but let us not start inverting everything at will ;-)
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by Rod 17y ago
The expected value is the same: (0.5 * 2X) + (0.5 * 0) = X = (X * 1.0) but perhaps you would be able to attract more customers. I doubt it. While it's certainly true that everybody loves a freebie, no one likes to pay twice for something. W
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Heaviside’s Operator Calculus(myreckonings.com)
20 points by Rod 17y ago|5 comments
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by Rod 17y ago
"If I had my way, I’d destroy all the mosques and spread the whores around a little more", the detective said. "At least they’re not sectarian". LOLOL, now that's a bombastic statement! Funniest thing I've read today...
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Hawala: transferring money without actually moving it(en.wikipedia.org)
58 points by Rod 17y ago|19 comments
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by Rod 17y ago
"Regulatory arbitrage" is widely used when referring to the exploitation of legal loopholes. Sometimes they call it "jurisdictional arbitrage" instead. The metaphor may be weak, but then people talk about "statistical arbitrage" and that's
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The Internet as a source of Regulatory Arbitrage (1996)(osaka.law.miami.edu)
4 points by Rod 17y ago|2 comments
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Firing Squad Synchronization Problem(en.wikipedia.org)
7 points by Rod 17y ago|0 comments
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by Rod 17y ago
Just to point out a typo: it's "Terence Tao", not "Terrence Tao".
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by Rod 17y ago
I didn't say anything about relationships either... Attracting gold-diggers can be fun if one sticks to pump & dump kind of debauchery. It might seem unscrupulous, but we're not discussing that. Worst-case scenario, one risks getting
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by Rod 17y ago
That's a loser's game. Sure, a ton of money will get you laid... with precisely the kind of women one should avoid in the first place. Money does not increase one's attractiveness per se , it only attracts scavengers commonly known as gold
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by Rod 17y ago
I heard the same joke about McKinsey. Makes sense, after all McKinsey is the Goldman Sachs of consulting.
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by Rod 17y ago
Some links on Computational Photography, for those who may be interested in this emerging field: http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/computational-ph... http://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/6/sp07/6.088/index.html http://graphics.cs
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by Rod 17y ago
That's an interesting analysis, but I disagree on some points. My ideas: 1) people tend to have sex with people of roughly the same attractiveness. Only a fool would fail to realize that there's a sexual market out there, and one's price in
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by Rod 17y ago
I disagree with the methodology, mostly. I believe that teaching Finance as if it were a hard science is dishonest. I believe that mathematical rigor is no substitute for data and empiricism. I would also claim that a MSc in Statistics may
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by Rod 17y ago
"at most financial firms, the quants are strong mathematicians but third-rate coders." Truer words have never been written. Various friends of mine who are former mathematicians / physicists now working as quants do rock at stochastic cal

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