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by jeffwass 9y ago
Anybody know when the term "Neural Net" first appeared? Just read Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", published in '66, and there are a couple of mentions of "neural nets".
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France to allow blockchain for trading unlisted securities(uk.reuters.com)
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by jeffwass 9y ago
>Storing your life savings in Bitcoin right now is a suicidal idea. Don't tell (or do tell) this family : https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/10/17/t... "The
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by jeffwass 9y ago
That's basically the same thing as selling the corporate bond and buying a government bond of similar maturity and coupon frequency in the same currency. Though I don't get why you're puzzled on synthetic derivatives, since w
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Further, there is no one single dimension you can rank the 'best' professor on. The two main dimensions would be Research and Teaching. A third might be Public Engagement. But there's not much correlation between these. When
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by jeffwass 9y ago
I mentioned this before, but one of my former colleagues quit to trade BTC and claimed he could account on some days for 10% of exchange volume. No idea which exchange. But his trading activity as far as I understand were on-average neutral
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by jeffwass 9y ago
Why in the world was this downvoted?
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Part of the irony around bitcoin is that some of the early users of Bitcoin are from the Occupy Wall Street movement. We all remember hearing them request donations via btc, people giving thousands of btc for them to buy pizzas. I think (en
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Working out on polluted streets bears minimal benefit(edition.cnn.com)
1 points by jeffwass 9y ago|0 comments
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by jeffwass 9y ago
What percentage have done anything beyond the default wifi-router that comes with their provider?
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No idea, just that he claimed 10% of volume on some days (which is in cumulative # of bitcoins, not # of trades).
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by jeffwass 9y ago
A guy I used to work with quit many years ago to trade bitcoin. He developed some buy/sell strategies that netted small profits, but he said it was hard to scale it up. IIRC he said some days his trades alone counted for 10% of trading
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by jeffwass 9y ago
I'm in my (early) 40's and started coding in the (late) 70's
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I'm curious - do you report your capital gains on the bitcoin you transact in? (Assuming you bought it for cheaper than the price you transact at)
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by jeffwass 9y ago
You have great advice with the benefit of hindsight. So what's your suggestion for the "obvious" investment today?
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Global brands pull YouTube ads due to inappropriate content(bloomberg.com)
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by jeffwass 9y ago
Back in High School (25 yrs ago, sheesh!) I did a research project on subliminal messages. I found some MS-DOS TSR program that would flash messages on the screen at specified duration or frequency. I told my test subjects (other students)
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The material so black your eyes can't see it(edition.cnn.com)
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by jeffwass 9y ago
I've just finished the draft of my first novel using Scrivener. (it's a kids/YA Sci-Fi novel). It's been a joy to use. I wrote the first 45k words written on the OS X version on my laptop. But in May I started a new job,
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by jeffwass 9y ago
You rock!!
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Those are two very different things (Ohm's Law and Capacitance). Capacitance is basically the relation between electric field and charge, whereas inductance is the relation between magnetic fields and currents. Those follow from fundam
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by jeffwass 9y ago
Seconded for Photopia, really amazing. I think somehow the act of playing in your story (The puzzles are super gentle in that one,'it's the antithesis of Zoek, but it sets the stage for an interactive exploratory novel) makes you
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by jeffwass 9y ago
Maybe you're seeing Prisoner's Cinema : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_cinema
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That was awesome, I never heard of them before, just spent twenty minutes with the wiki link.
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by jeffwass 9y ago
Last week my girls were watching some obviously child-focused YouTube videos, and the YouTube app showed a commercial for the new season of Walking Dead. Seriously, an ad showing graphic scenes of zombies or other monsters on a video clearl
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by jeffwass 9y ago
"But on 12 Jul 2017 at 12:35 PM I got very lucky and now good things keep happening to me." What time zone?
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by jeffwass 9y ago
It's not too bad actually. The Scrivener iOS app is pretty good too. Sometimes my thumbs can get sore (on a separate note I sometimes wish there was the option to have a keyboard on top of the phone screen instead of bottom. More nat
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by jeffwass 9y ago
I'm not doing NaNoWriMo, but last week I did just finish the draft of my first book, a kids Sci-Fi novel Now begins the editing and revision phase, which will be a ton of work, I fear. On tooling, I used Scrivener. Interestingly, the l
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by jeffwass 9y ago
Suppose someone will pay you one bitcoin next week, as per some private agreement. For this discussion, let's entirely ignore credit risk (the risk this person doesn't pay) but consider market risk. Like it or not, you carry the r
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by jeffwass 9y ago
On a somewhat related note, in hardware space : Twenty years ago I practically got a job offer merely by asking a question on Usenet about a particular piece of test equipment. IIRC it was some HP 'bed-of-nails' beast for programm

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