Rod

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Blood, Bullets, Bombs, and Bandwidth(rezendi.com)
2 points by Rod 18y ago|0 comments
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by Rod 18y ago
And some of those pallets full of cash were reported missing. Is anyone surprised?
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by Rod 18y ago
I wholeheartedly agree with your point. But is it a matter of economic illiteracy? Isn't it a matter of plain innumeracy? $1 trillion = 1E12 dollars, 300 million Americans = 3E8 persons, and hence that is only approx. 3 grand per person, li
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Economics According to Google(blogs.wsj.com)
4 points by Rod 18y ago|0 comments
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by Rod 18y ago
Probably MATLAB instead of Mathematica. Control Systems, Communication Systems, Structural Engineering, Engines, Vibration Analysis,... all within MATLAB's domain, right? Am I missing something?
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by Rod 18y ago
Too bad the stimulus money injection is wired to the companies' bank accounts. Imagine a $10 billion bail out delivered in cash to the door of AIG's headquarters, for instance. Imagine 18-wheelers carrying truckloads of $100 bills. That wou
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by Rod 18y ago
"That just means some other VCs would have invested instead." I would say that would have worked if you wanted to build a software company. This was early 2001, the entire Tech bubble had just collapsed. It isn't very easy to find venture
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by Rod 18y ago
You're right. To be honest, I am not too concerned with the state trying to prosecute me for having smoked a couple of joints in college. The state could try to do it, but I don't see what it would gain exactly. I am more concerned about
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by Rod 18y ago
That's your opinion. Mine is different. Invoking the principle of least privilege , if some piece of information on your personal life is of no use to the point you're trying to make, why reveal it? You gain nothing, and there a chance (th
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Ivan Krstić on Languages and Security(radian.org)
5 points by Rod 18y ago|0 comments
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by Rod 18y ago
I confess that I find it surprising that some people here on HN freely admit using Marijuana. Worst-case scenario, couldn't YC be subpoenaed by the feds and requested to provide each user's email and IP address? I know this sounds a bit too
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by Rod 18y ago
If you don't subscribe to NYTimes, you can read the article at: http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/03/10/business/10quant.php
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In Nature’s Casino: catastrophe insurance(nytimes.com)
3 points by Rod 18y ago|0 comments
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by Rod 18y ago
Indeed. In retrospect, it's somewhat ironic that the group of banks that bailed out LTCM included Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, and AIG. The "bailers" became the "bailees".
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by Rod 18y ago
Thanks for the clarification. Just a thought experiment: forbidding scientists to submit papers to open access journals would be a bit too draconian, wouldn't it?
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Gerry Sussman: The Art of the Propagator(dspace.mit.edu)
4 points by Rod 18y ago|0 comments
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by Rod 18y ago
"John Conyers (D-MI) apparently has a problem with this. He is pushing a bill through Congress that will literally ban the open access of these papers, forcing scientists to only publish in journals. This may not sound like a big deal, but
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by Rod 18y ago
Makes sense. I had never thought of it from that POV. I can't take back what I wrote, though. Personally, if someone made a joke implying that I was doing something illegal, I would not be offended at all (unless I was, in fact, doing somet
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by Rod 18y ago
AFAIK, the OP did NOT request your intervention (I am sure the OP's skin is thicker than yours, so to say). You are making a storm in a teacup. BTW, I was not mocking the OP, in case you haven't figured it out yet. Borrowing a British expre
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by Rod 18y ago
There's no accounting for taste, so I won't discuss whether the comment was humorous or not. However, I respectfully disagree that I have offended the original poster. Please allow me to explain: As an engineer, I appreciate the original po
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by Rod 18y ago
Kind of PC, aren't we? Lower bound is -8. Knock yourself out.
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by Rod 18y ago
If your startup's core competence is online 419 scams then I wish you guys were a bit less resourceful ;-)) (sorry dude, but I couldn't help it... though distasteful this joke might seem)
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by Rod 18y ago
Now that you've reminded me of Mackay's equally wonderful book, I can't decide which of these two is my favorite ;-) All math books should be like these two gems. I never get tired of reading them.
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by Rod 18y ago
Using Mixed-Integer Quadratic Optimization to process real-time GPS data. Perhaps the coolest project I ever worked on. More info: http://www.stanford.edu/~boyd/papers/int_est.html
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Face Recognition using Eigenfaces and Distance Classifiers: A Tutorial(onionesquereality.wordpress.com)
7 points by Rod 18y ago|1 comments
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by Rod 18y ago
This book is truly wonderful. Probably my favorite math book. Those of you who may be interested in convex optimization may want to take a look at these "MIT OCW-like" pages: http://see.stanford.edu/SEE/courseinfo.aspx?coll=2db7ced4-39...
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The Impressionist - Painting with Java(laminadesign.com)
3 points by Rod 18y ago|0 comments
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by Rod 18y ago
Please read my comment again and tell me where I generalized to all Chinese. The article's author claimed that the guys were very "bright", and I was expecting him to write on their entrepreneurial spirit... and, lo and behold, all they wan
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by Rod 18y ago
I thought these "very intelligent" Chinese students wanted to know how to start businesses. Then I read this line: "How can I get that job? How can I get a high-paying job in investment banking now?" How disappointing. It seems that these
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by Rod 18y ago
My opinion is based on my personal experience, not on anything I have read. Of all the people I met, the ones who achieved the most were driven by a desire to do things, to deliver impact, to create. Of course, people are attracted to many

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