TriinT

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by TriinT 17y ago
If you're an introverted traveler who actually enjoys talking to the locals and getting to know people, then join http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CouchSurfing or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospitality_Club I am a member of both, and I ha
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by TriinT 17y ago
Except that they may be shooting virtual martians with their plasma guns instead of doing anything "productive" ;-)
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The radioactive boy scout: the teenager who attempted to build a breeder reactor(harpers.org)
60 points by TriinT 17y ago|18 comments
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Are your views U.S.-centric?
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Prisoners live off the state. They are, by definition, parasites. Everything else is semantics.
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More articles on Ely Calil: http://harpers.org/archive/2009/02/hbc-90004427 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-534408/The-shadowy-M...
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by TriinT 17y ago
The kids on the article's photo look mostly Mexican. Moreover, there's no such thing as an "aryan race". This program looks a bit like Hitler's youth in some ways, but let's be pragmatic: the program gives teenagers in a rather poor area so
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I agree. However, how can the fundamental mechanisms of Nature be explained if we do not confront theories with observation and experimentation? Physics is a fortunate field because the beauty of the mathematics is a good indicator of wheth
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Complexity is a wonderful thing and there are many complex phenomena which arise from simple rules. But unless you can make predictions that agree with observation and experimentation... it's not Science. The nexus between Physics and Compl
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I read the book. I would call it a New Kinds of Recreational Puzzles (except that they're not THAT new). It's interesting, but it's not Science. And Wolfram could try to be humble once in a while. And he could also try to give credit wher
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by TriinT 17y ago
Stephen Wolfram is a very smart guy. He obtained his PhD in particle physics at Caltech at a very, very tender age. He created Mathematica. He has an impressive track record. However, his obsession with that NKS baloney puzzles me. I don't
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by TriinT 17y ago
No nudity on that page. Unless Ayn Rand's portrait is considered porn, this should be SFW. On the other hand, the IT guys in the company you work for might find it "amusing" that you're accessing stuff on the playboy.com domain. You decid
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Interview with Ayn Rand (1964)(playboy.com)
22 points by TriinT 17y ago|16 comments
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That's precisely what I was going to point out. "Your left brain is logical, linear, by-the-numbers; the right side is creative, artistic, empathetic (...) our country is entering a new era -- the so-called conceptual age -- during which r
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by TriinT 17y ago
Academia needs its army of minions to teach undergrads and do the grunt research work. Fewer and fewer Americans are willing to go through the grind that is grad school in Science or Engineering. Thus, one must find cheap labor abroad. Why
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by TriinT 17y ago
The best advice I can give you is: read Nuclear Phynance. It's a truly great forum for practitioners: http://www.nuclearphynance.com There you can read a lot about implementing numerical software in the "real world". My perception is that
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by TriinT 17y ago
Where I come from, mother's day is on March 8.
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by TriinT 17y ago
I was born in 1980. Which generation am I officially a part of? I honestly don't know, and I truly don't care... I didn't mean to be a generationalist , but after having taught these kids in grad school, I don't have the highest opinion of
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by TriinT 17y ago
This article gives the impression that the class of '09 is actually entitled to have wonderful, high-paying jobs. It's a job market, no one is entitled to anything. It sucks, but the faster these gen-Y'ers face the harsh reality, the better
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by TriinT 17y ago
That's a retarded statement. There are tons of derivatives. Would you care to be more specific? A counter-example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2008_Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_...
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by TriinT 17y ago
Twitter is for pussies. APRS is much cooler: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Position_Reporting_Sy...
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by TriinT 17y ago
There are many ways of making a living as a techie. Working for certain kinds of companies is a sure way of being miserable, that is for sure. Going the other way and trying to become the next Gates / Bezos / Brin, etc is another way of bei
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by TriinT 17y ago
You are right. I know some quants who have a couple of younger coders to help them with the implementation, but most of them have to code stuff on their own. Sometimes it's "quantish" code like numerical PDEs and SDEs (which is what quants
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by TriinT 17y ago
Well... since when are financial engineers supposed to be good software developers? Even if you're mega-smart, it's virtually impossible to be an expert in pricing derivatives and, simultaneously, an expert in writing code. Some quants were
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That was the point I was trying to make ;-) There are a few techies who made piles of money, but most have failed, are failing and will keep on failing. The odds of making billions in a mega-IPO aren't much better than winning the lottery,
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"President Obama says that one healthy consequence of the financial crisis will be that college grads with math skills won’t automatically want to become derivatives traders. "We want some of them to go into engineering, and we want some o
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An interesting paper related to this: Discrete Fluids : http://library.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/getfile?15-16.pdf
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Feynman diagrams for the masses (carlbrannen.wordpress.com)
14 points by TriinT 17y ago|0 comments
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Once, years ago, I created a C++ library to do complex arithmetic. All that operator overloading made me realize that C++ is probably not the most efficient language to work with. Fortunately, Python has built-in complex numbers...
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Thanks for your input. I don't know exactly what point the author wanted to make, but IMHO his goal was to show that one can do complex arithmetic using matrices, not to show what is and what is not an isomorphism. I mean, other than mathem

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