Rod

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541.
by Rod 18y ago
Make lemonade, not war!!!
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by Rod 18y ago
"The "few" who manage to make money in the stock market are the ones who buy when the market is down and sell when it's up." Not necessarily in that order ;-) "the pros who work 12 hours on it apparently don't know either. Otherwise they
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by Rod 18y ago
The Principality of Sealand even has its own website! http://www.sealandgov.org In 2000, Wired wrote a cool article on Sealand: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.07/haven.html
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by Rod 18y ago
Congrats for squeezing all that hype Wired has published recently in one single paragraph. Am I the only one who thinks that the average quality of Wired's content has decreased abruptly in recent years?
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by Rod 18y ago
David, I don't know what your definition of "beating the market" is. What my friends did was to try to find undervalued small caps by looking at the fundamentals. In that sense, what they were doing was more "investing" than "trading". It
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by Rod 18y ago
There are way too many hedge funds building trading systems. Some know what they are doing, but many don't. Trading algorithms are important, but choosing a financial instrument which one understands well and other people understand not-so-
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by Rod 18y ago
David, I do agree with you that there are win-win opportunities in the stock market. Investing in index funds (though plain vanilla they might be) is indeed better than having one's money rotting in a checkings account. A few friends of m
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by Rod 18y ago
As someone who once worked for a hedge fund, please allow me to give you some words of advice: - what advantage do you think you will have over others? Unless you have friends in high places and plan to do insider trading (which is very ill
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Exploring Life's Origins(exploringorigins.org)
2 points by Rod 18y ago|0 comments
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A Gentle Introduction to Programming Using Python(ocw.mit.edu)
68 points by Rod 18y ago|25 comments
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The Age of Computing: A Personal Memoir(bio.net)
8 points by Rod 18y ago|0 comments
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by Rod 18y ago
Building a Role Playing Game in a week is impressive. Taking an entire week to build one single Rocket Propelled Grenade would be interesting too, but much less impressive ;-)
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by Rod 18y ago
I have seen photos of WP being used against enemy soldiers in Vietnam. It's quite a unique explosion, indeed. Interesting that WP was used in GW1. Hadn't WP and Napalm been banned before 1991? I will believe in newspapers when they produce
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by Rod 18y ago
"A woman described how on Tuesday Israeli forces "started to fire phosphorus bombs against the people" Please. Since when is a civilian woman a reliable source of information on weaponry? Gimme a break! Bad journalism. What else could one
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by Rod 18y ago
University of California - Santa Barbara
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by Rod 18y ago
Matt, it does serve one powerful purpose: propaganda. Some people say Israel can do whatever it wants because it's defending itself against rocket attacks. Other people claim that the Israeli state is a murderous organization that should be
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by Rod 18y ago
A PDF copy of the interview that was on Tech Review: http://www.lloydwatts.com/carver_MIT_2004.pdf A longer 1996 interview with Mead can be found at Caltech's oral archives: http://oralhistories.library.caltech.edu/133/
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Carver Mead’s Natural Inspiration(technologyreview.com)
3 points by Rod 18y ago|1 comments
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by Rod 18y ago
Dude, not all startups are in the software business. I know a few startups in the hardware business which are growing spectacularly. Contrary to popular belief, not every startup wants to be the "next Facebook" ;-)
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by Rod 18y ago
It's a very good book indeed. Also a little bit overrated, I would say. The book deals with deep concepts (e.g., recursion) but some people miss the "point" and try to mystify the book as if it were deeper than what it actually is. I also f
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: A Mental Space Odyssey(ocw.mit.edu)
19 points by Rod 18y ago|10 comments
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by Rod 18y ago
KBG sounds a whole lot better than "Cuil". If KGB one day eventually fails, at least their demise will bring back memories of a humorous name.
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Functional Differential Geometry [pdf](groups.csail.mit.edu)
5 points by Rod 18y ago|0 comments
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by Rod 18y ago
Some interesting URLs I've just found: Gaudi’s method for designing the Sagrada Familia cathedral http://www.math.upenn.edu/~ted/114F08/ExtraCredit/Problem3.p... A different kind of string theory: Antoni Gaudi http://memetician.livejou
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Form-Finding and Structural Optimization: Gaudi Workshop(ocw.mit.edu)
4 points by Rod 18y ago|1 comments
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by Rod 18y ago
Exactly. Some comments on this: http://www.automatedtrader.net/announcements-1748.xhtm
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by Rod 18y ago
"Unethical" was tongue-in-cheek. I whole-heartedly agree with you. Short-sellers are necessary. Speculation is amoral. Trading is war. If one does not want to get shot, then one should not go to war, period. It's soooo amusing to see the bi
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by Rod 18y ago
"Capitalism allows you to act without regard for morality so long as it's within the law and that's fair game. Doesn't mean we need to like the people who do act that way." It's easy to be "noble" when you don't have the chance to be "evi
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by Rod 18y ago
You clearly have no clue about trading. Though short-sellers are hated, they are necessary. For every trader who goes short, there's a trader who goes long. No one is forcing them to enter this trade. They do so because they want to. Bannin
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Some disasters attributable to bad numerical computing(ima.umn.edu)
13 points by Rod 18y ago|3 comments

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