TriinT

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   Bruce Schneier: Insurgents Intercepting Predator Video? No Problem(wired.com)

   6 points by TriinT 17y ago|0 comments
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   by TriinT 17y ago

   The lesson is that whatever flying machine we are able to design, it will always pale in comparison to Nature's flying machines. If humming birds had nothing to teach us, papers such as the following one would not be published: http://www.
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   Microsoft Solver Foundation: numerical optimization library(solverfoundation.com)

   18 points by TriinT 17y ago|6 comments
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   USB Hourglass random number generator(blog.makezine.com)

   1 points by TriinT 17y ago|0 comments
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   The Evolution of a Haskell Programmer(willamette.edu)

   22 points by TriinT 17y ago|0 comments
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   Proofs without words(mathoverflow.net)

   1 points by TriinT 17y ago|1 comments
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   by TriinT 17y ago

   The finance academics borrowed the mathematics from physics and the rigor from mathematics, but they forgot that, at the core, theirs is a social science. If they wanted to borrow anything from physics, they could have borrowed the good hab
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   A Categorical Programming Language (1987) [pdf](tom.sfc.keio.ac.jp)

   5 points by TriinT 17y ago|1 comments
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   by TriinT 17y ago

   Actually, I do. Do you? I found it strange that a guy got downvoted for suggesting that a hedge fund used technical analysis. I hate TA, but then, I hate Quant Finance, too. Whoever thinks that the smart guys at RenTech and the like use tha
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    by TriinT 17y ago

    Here's an example of what the demigods at RenTec do: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a... "Volfbeyn said that he was instructed by his superiors to devise a way to 'defraud investors trading through the Portfol
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    by TriinT 17y ago

    I am wondering what clueless fools have downvoted you. Technical Analysis is as foolish as Black-Scholes. Maybe moving-averages and Bollinger bands are not algorithms for the HN crowd. Technical Analysis is retarded, but then... so is all
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    by TriinT 17y ago

    "I just disagree. I have some familiarity with ASL and I feel they've gone off in the wrong direction from the start." I know a bit of information theory, but I know zero of ASL. It's quite possible that they went in the wrong direction f
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    William Stein: mathematical software and me, a very personal recollection [pdf] (wstein.org)

    23 points by TriinT 17y ago|1 comments
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    by TriinT 17y ago

    "I file Technology Review with Wired and SciAm. That is, fluff. Hardly intellectual material imho." Sure, TR and Wired are fluff. Except that the article links to an arXiv paper. This is not a standard TR article. Moreover, you can't pres
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    by TriinT 17y ago

    "This is only interesting if one doesn't realize that sign language is its own language, rather than simply signed English." Define interesting . Personally, I find the entropic analysis of spoken Engligh vs. sign language pretty interes
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    The Puzzling Paradox of Sign Language(technologyreview.com)

    39 points by TriinT 17y ago|39 comments
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    by TriinT 17y ago

    Python is very easy to learn, very intuitive. For someone who has done numerical computation with MATLAB, Python is a very natural language to use. By contrast, LISP is hard to learn, unintuitive, and unnatural. In the real world people car
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    The rise of Python in computational science(walkingrandomly.com)

    53 points by TriinT 17y ago|31 comments
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    Bayes-Ball: The Rational Pastime [pdf](gatsby.ucl.ac.uk)

    3 points by TriinT 17y ago|0 comments
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    RENE: a Maple package for stating and proving theorems in Geometry(math.rutgers.edu)

    3 points by TriinT 17y ago|0 comments
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    Scott Aaronson: hopefully my last D-Wave post ever(scottaaronson.com)

    34 points by TriinT 17y ago|6 comments
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    Fully Homomorphic Encryption with relatively small key and ciphertext sizes(eprint.iacr.org)

    11 points by TriinT 17y ago|3 comments
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    Mathematical Methods in Theoretical Computer Science (Spring 2008)(cs.princeton.edu)

    1 points by TriinT 17y ago|0 comments
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    by TriinT 17y ago

    "Also goes a long way towards explaining why so many linear algebra textbooks are translated from Russian." I think you're detecting a false pattern there. Russians generally do kick ass in Mathematics. In the West, Mathematics was held b
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    Linear Algebra Done Wrong [pdf](math.brown.edu)

    35 points by TriinT 17y ago|12 comments
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    Gamma Knife: a radical treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder patients(guardian.co.uk)

    2 points by TriinT 17y ago|1 comments
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    Experimental Mathematics(math.rutgers.edu)

    1 points by TriinT 17y ago|0 comments
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    Formalizing 100 Theorems(cs.ru.nl)

    1 points by TriinT 17y ago|0 comments
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    Teaching the computer how to discover and prove analogs of Collatz's conjecture(math.rutgers.edu)

    1 points by TriinT 17y ago|0 comments
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    The Strong Free Will Theorem [pdf](ams.org)

    23 points by TriinT 17y ago|17 comments