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by TriinT 17y ago
It's relatively easy to measure how smart a mathematician is. How do you measure how smart a politician is? Then there's another problem: in certain organizations, it does not matter if you're very smart because you can't act on it. There's
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by TriinT 17y ago
I think you missed the point. A grad student who idolizes Feynman, Einstein or Hawking does not think he's as smart as them (not even close). Instead, he hopes he can make contributions at the same level of Feynman, Einstein or Hawking. May
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Biology goes open source (2007)(forbes.com)
13 points by TriinT 17y ago|1 comments
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by TriinT 17y ago
The point I was trying to make was not that they're equally distributed, but that the oceans are not devoid of "talent" ;-)
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The Cult of Genius(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
39 points by TriinT 17y ago|17 comments
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by TriinT 17y ago
Hey, dolphins are smart!!! ;-)
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by TriinT 17y ago
Your certainty that there are intelligent people working for the U.S. government stems from 1st hand experience, or does it stem from wishful thinking? I thought Cheney was no longer in the government. And if he's so smart, why didn't he an
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by TriinT 17y ago
"In the U.S., many of the best and brightest end up in the military or government service." Would you please care to provide examples? If you said that the best and the brightest are funded by military and government, I'd agree. After all
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by TriinT 17y ago
Well, I still program in C, and I still learn 19th century math & physics. Not all things are destined to get stale. Your comments are usually insightful. This one conveyed zero bits of information. Seriously.
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Solving Sudoku using the NEOS optimization Solver(neos.mcs.anl.gov)
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by TriinT 17y ago
Harry Markowitz developed the modern portfolio theory, the core of mathematical finance. However, when he invested his own money, he invested 50% in bonds, and the other 50% in blue chip stocks. Moral of the story: people tend to be very co
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by TriinT 17y ago
That's how powerful the casino lobby is...
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The Prisoners’ Paradox(futilitycloset.com)
10 points by TriinT 17y ago|24 comments
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Did you check his performance? It's rather consistent. The real world is very complex. However, there are "patterns", and spotting these patterns can be very profitable. I used to do that all the time when I was working for a hedge fund. Lu
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Some things never change(futilitycloset.com)
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Some reviews of this book: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/05/11/... http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/2009/06/pir... The book's author, Peter Leeson, wrote a paper which provides an interesting over
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by TriinT 17y ago
Yeah, I have heard of the Harvard-Yale game hacks. I have also heard of the tradition of putting stuff on top of the great dome. I like this Star Wars hack: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1999/r2d2.html Nonetheless, the coolest hack MIT ha
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The Invisible Hook: the Hidden Economics of Pirates(press.princeton.edu)
12 points by TriinT 17y ago|6 comments
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by TriinT 17y ago
Would you please care to provide some examples? I am neither a Caltech nor a MIT alumnus. Although I have never visited MIT, I have spent some time at Caltech as a visitor. When I was at Caltech, some people told me that the difference betw
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by TriinT 17y ago
With all due respect, I don't think MIT invented "hacks". MIT invented the name, though. MIT is older than Caltech. But Cambridge University is older than MIT. At Cambridge, they've been pulling hacks for centuries.
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Software Engineering for Internet Applications(philip.greenspun.com)
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by TriinT 17y ago
Some more famous Caltech pranks at: http://www.globalprovince.com/caltech.htm
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The great Rose Bowl hoax of 1961(museumofhoaxes.com)
39 points by TriinT 17y ago|14 comments
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Compressed sensing and single-pixel cameras(terrytao.wordpress.com)
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Common Sense Problem Page(www-formal.stanford.edu)
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by TriinT 17y ago
I agree. And allow me to suggest this paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/0809.1393 It's not everyday that you see an algebraic geometer writing on CDOs ;-)
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End-of-the-World Trade(lrb.co.uk)
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by TriinT 17y ago
"I just assume climate researchers use a reasonable definition." Have you ever read about what that definition is on any discussion on global warming? I haven't. So they tell us the temperature is rising, but we don't know what temperatur
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by TriinT 17y ago
"Seems to me that either the temperature is rising or it is not. Perfectly suitable for one bit of information." Temperature of what??? Temperature is a function of space. If you fix the spatial coordinates, you can tell if the temperatur
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by TriinT 17y ago
Science shows are entertainment, mostly. Their goal is to promote Science, and I think they do their job well. I have had the priviledge of working with some truly top-notch scientists. A common trait among them is how honest they were on t

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