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Composing contracts: an adventure in financial engineering (2000)(research.microsoft.com)
5 points by Rod 16y ago|0 comments
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Hot technology in chilly Estonia (2005)(nytimes.com)
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by Rod 16y ago
No one forces you to live lavishly. You can rent a small apartment instead of buying a house and having to pay a mortgage, you can travel on a modest budget instead of buying a Summer house you'll use only 2 weeks per year. You don't need a
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by Rod 16y ago
Is "the Street" like Hotel California : "you can check in any time you like, but you can never leave"? If not, you have no one to blame but yourself for not following your dreams. You may find pity here on HN, but that will hardly advance
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by Rod 16y ago
I applaud such moral rectitude. After all, people who regularly accept grants from the military in order to develop, say, automatic target recognition systems, cannot possibly blemish their immaculate reputation by publishing a cropped imag
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by Rod 16y ago
Sure, because BS on user interface is more important than logic, automata theory, and complexity. If you don't like the Science in Computer Science you can always go to the Humanities side of the campus and engage in intellectual circle
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by Rod 16y ago
More links: http://www.ee.cityu.edu.hk/~lmpo/lenna/Lenna97.html http://ndevilla.free.fr/lena/
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by Rod 16y ago
You're missing the point. I was talking about CS, not about product design. Turing machines have nothing to do with iPods. Engineers are supposed to design systems given some specs. The specs are to be compiled by someone else. The designer
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by Rod 16y ago
"Bringing women into computer science is also an important task" Why? Because political correctness says so? I don't understand this obsession with "diversity" in the U.S., I really don't. Personally, I think that we should instead bring
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Morse Code Translator(morsecode.scphillips.com)
1 points by Rod 16y ago|0 comments
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by Rod 16y ago
Losing respect for women is not problem. A real tragedy would be if you lost your lust for them. If it makes you happy, women who know how to manipulate men say the same about us.
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Donald Knuth: Calculus via O notation (1998)(micromath.wordpress.com)
3 points by Rod 16y ago|1 comments
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by Rod 16y ago
Give Solver Foundation a try: http://www.solverfoundation.com
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by Rod 16y ago
Hedge fund managers are to management consultants what wolves are to sheep. Please don't compare the two. One is a master, the other nothing but a slave.
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by Rod 16y ago
You can't predict where technology will be in 10 years. Anyone who claims that fundamental research in some field is useless and / or that it will never go anywhere is... well... a fool. History has taught us again and again that the purpos
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by Rod 16y ago
The fact that you mentioned that memristors were "built a long time ago", when they were first built in 2008, clearly shows you are an outsider who has no clue what he's talking about. I suggest you pick some elementary books on electronics
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by Rod 16y ago
A pop-sci article that contains less hype is Brian Hayes' The Spectrum of Riemannium : http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/the-spectrum-of... If you want to learn the actual math of random matrices, Terry Tao's notes are a good
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Dean Kamen: The emotion behind invention(ted.com)
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by Rod 17y ago
You could start from the beginning...
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7 real estate APIs (2008)(blog.programmableweb.com)
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Skiena on Computational Finance(cs.sunysb.edu)
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Nikola Tesla: the genius who lit the world [vid](documentaryheaven.com)
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21 examples of Flash journalism(mindymcadams.com)
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by Rod 17y ago
Thanks for stating the obvious. Now, do you have anything remotely insightful to add?
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Compressed Sensing fills in the blanks(wired.com)
6 points by Rod 17y ago|0 comments
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by Rod 17y ago
Using Google as an example of why being located in the SV is a necessity is rather silly. Let's face it: Google is a fortunate anomaly. If you want to make a point, you should think of the average company that succeeded, and then see where
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RAND Corporation: A Stability Police Force for the United States (2009) [pdf](rand.org)
2 points by Rod 17y ago|1 comments
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Cheap glasses for the world's poor(nytimes.com)
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by Rod 17y ago
"Feynman was a pure genius, possibly the greatest scientist to grace the earth." Feynman was certainly a pure genius, on that we agree, but saying that he was the greatest scientist is somewhat distasteful, imho. For starters, there's no
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by Rod 17y ago
Please do note that: 1) Not all people on HN are American, not all on HN describe themselves as "nerds". In some parts of the world where intellectualism is more welcome, intellectuals are looked upon with admiration, rather than contempt (

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