Rod

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   by Rod 18y ago

   I like Real Genius . It's not exactly a good movie, and yet, it has attained a certain cult status. The movie is based on Caltech and some of the pranks featured in the movie actually happened in the 1960s and 1970s. That character who liv
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   by Rod 18y ago

   Thanks for the input. I stand corrected and ashamed for blindly trusting the authenticity of quotes randomly found on the internet ;-)
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   by Rod 18y ago

   One similarity between grad students and homeless people is that both seem to greatly esteem free food ;-)
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   by Rod 18y ago

   I also tend to dislike people who describe themselves as artists . True artists create art, they don't brag. Many are enchanted by the power of labels and mistake their identity with the labels they use to describe themselves. Reminds of t
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   by Rod 18y ago

   Exactly. Paul Erdős was a guest at people's places, not a freeloader. He never sneaked into anyone's living room as far as I know. Maybe I am judging that dude too harshly, but I think his essay is a good example of how people sometimes do
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   by Rod 18y ago

   Some eccentric people are very cool, but this guy seems a bit of a poser. A cheap poser, in fact. Sneaking into dorms does not sound very noble to me. The other students pay the rent, and this guy thinks he's too smart, so he lives off the
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   Notes on Computational Linguistics(msu.edu)

   3 points by Rod 18y ago|0 comments
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   by Rod 18y ago

   I certainly do agree that for most entrepreneurs machine learning is much more useful than computational complexity theory. However, I figured there might be some people on HN who would like to learn a bit more about complexity, and hence I
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   Complexity Theory: A Modern Approach(cs.princeton.edu)

   20 points by Rod 18y ago|12 comments
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    by Rod 18y ago

    From MIT OCW, here's some more material on DSP from a course taught by the illustrious Prof. Alan Oppenheim himself in Fall 2005: Discrete-Time Signal Processing: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Compute...
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    Computational Semantics with Functional Programming(homepages.cwi.nl)

    2 points by Rod 18y ago|0 comments
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    by Rod 18y ago

    SICM was discussed a few weeks ago here on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=428345
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    by Rod 18y ago

    Anyone who has the technical know-how to build a remote-triggered bomb has the technical know-how to build a jam-resistant system. RF jammers can't possibly jam all the EM spectrum, and any evil-doer would easily be able to break this "sec
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    by Rod 18y ago

    I believe the discussion should not be whether the Police should have the right to jam wireless signals or not, BUT under what conditions and what kind of jammers should the Police have the right to operate. Boundaries must be clearly defin
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    Jane Street Summer Project 2009(ocaml.janestreet.com)

    1 points by Rod 18y ago|0 comments
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    by Rod 18y ago

    Any academic (professor, post-doc, grad student) has a CV or resumé in PDF or PS format in his / her webpage. Sources of inspiration galore. Googling for LaTeX source code would work too. I use TeXnicCenter to write LaTeX files, and it
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    by Rod 18y ago

    I write my resumé in LaTeX. I did not use any template. What I did was: a) I collected a few sexy-looking resumés from various illustrious academics. b) I selected the features I liked the most from each of those sample resumés . c) I
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    by Rod 18y ago

    Quite true. I would argue that loving what one does is necessary to attain excellence. But it certainly is not sufficient.
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    by Rod 18y ago

    To every rule there's an exception ;-)
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    by Rod 18y ago

    Any concrete ideas on how to implement that idea? Sounds really interesting.
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    by Rod 18y ago

    Quoting Austrian actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr (1913-2000): "I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails." So, do what
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    by Rod 18y ago

    I know people who live in Philly and love it. They're sane, I think. There's no accounting for taste, after all. I have been in Philly only some 48 hours or so, but my first impressions were quite negative. I saw way too many homeless peopl
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    Using OCaml to visualize Radiohead’s HoC music video(blog.thejit.org)

    2 points by Rod 18y ago|0 comments
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    by Rod 18y ago

    Philthydelphia is inexpensive indeed, but only because no sane person would ever want to live there. I vote for Portland, OR.
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    by Rod 18y ago

    Quoting economist John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006): "The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable." Remove the word "economic" from the quote, and it still applies perfectly. No expert has ever been ab
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    by Rod 18y ago

    I think you meant Ramanujan .
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    Mechanical Computing: Thinking with Balls(knexcomputer.blogspot.com)

    2 points by Rod 18y ago|0 comments
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    Unthinkable Futures(kk.org)

    31 points by Rod 18y ago|19 comments
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    by Rod 18y ago

    In the 1980s some Caltech students hacked the Rose Bowl stadium scoreboard so it showed "Caltech 38 - MIT 9" (typical Tech rivalry). That was more fun :-D http://today.caltech.edu/today/story-display?story_id=11464
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    Crash course in Applied Functional Programming(redsymbol.net)

    3 points by Rod 18y ago|0 comments