akshayubhat

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by akshayubhat 16y ago
on an unrelated note: I monitor visitors to my online resume and I just got an email saying someone from GS.com visited my resume. I guess there is an GS developer amongst us, may be he can elaborate.
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
does the analysis also includes HFT traders? Also I remember hearing that Goldman Sachs didn't have a single day of trading loss. Maybe the smaller Quant funds are loosing out on talent to the bigger firms?
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
Yes, but when we are talking about "programming brain" we are assuming that changing few base pairs would change the behavior / structure. Ova don't grow into random jumbles of cells, most of the time they grow into babies. Exact
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
Just because underlying structure is simple, does not implies that the system is predictable. For example consider the three body problem, it has simple structure yet there are known limitations on our ability to predict its configuration a
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
I use block permutations where my main password is rearranged by adding and removing similar blocks of characters and numbers. not too efficient method I must say. I feel a website name specific hash function is the way to go and I use it f
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
Our judgment is always clouded by survivorship bias, the emergence of self help social media, has only magnified it. Its one of the the main point in books by Nassim Taleb. One of the strategies he suggests is to to pursue a dual strategy w
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
I think Google will hit Oracle with a counter lawsuit. Google posses a lot of patents in area of Information Systems. Or they can cross license using patents like Map-Reduce, E.g. Google allowed ASF to use MR patent for Hadoop, however if t
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
from leaf patterns to stock market fluctuations to the frequency of earthquakes — suggests some sort of common underlying laws, but these remain speculative. Thats misleading, just because same type of fractal exists does not mea
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
here is the deal, it is extremely difficult to prove P ?= NP. However it is comparatively easier to have a wrong proof. The only thing that you can say is that this approach was one of the trickier ones to do it in a wrong way. Yet it does
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
well he had actually posted an updated version yesterday, so if he had to update it he would put up a not. Regarding the legal question, i don't think it reflect poorly any way on HP Labs. Its not like he is making cranky claims like no one
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
For Americans, dubai makes sense if BCG or Bains or Mckinsey are sending you there as a Consultant [read a series that appeared in MIT tech review, where this was the case], you then get 300k$ a year salary with quite bit lesser taxes and
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
Plus that any part of that money does not goes towards contributing social security fund in USA.
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
There are several indicators, the author of the comment seems to be a researcher at an IBM R&D center. Also the original author removed the paper from him web page. Thus which indicates that he is probably backing out on his claim.
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
Yes it was there, including an official copy which he updated yesterday.
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
The mention of the paper has been removed from the authors homepage.
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
if a job is in Dubai then it is surely not worth it. I have heard horror stories of people who went to work there. Indians, Europeans (My guess mostly from western poor countries) go to Dubai because 30K $ a year is a huge salary jump, but
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
First, Well the guy in question works in R&D lab of HP, and must be getting paid at least 120k$ per year. He also seems to have a good family and thus a social life :D I fail to understand why you draw such a poor picture of a Maths / P
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
Money is the last thing to care about if you solve P ?= NP. Humanity will remember you in same league as Turing Pythagoras Gauss and others.
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
Even with Graph Mining, I have rarely seen anyone using lisp or FP language. Most of the practitioners and researchers use C++ , Java or Python with specific libraries such as Jung, Netowrkx, SNAP.
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
Pangea3 a firm mentioned in that report is funded by Sequoia Capital http://www.linkedin.com/pub/greg-mcpolin-esq/3/938/8a1
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
1. The Black Swan 2. Fooled by Randomness 3. The unbearable lighness of being 4. Ahead of the Curve (Its about a student's experience at HBS)
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by akshayubhat 16y ago
If you are interested in practical application of your knowledge, I would suggest you to build a mid scale real life distributed system on AWS. You would need to spend around 100$ per month though. Currently I am trying to analyze a huge pu