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by lindbergh 11y ago
This reminds me of those educational/cultural interactive cdroms that were a thing in the 90s/early 2000s and that my local library had a for a 1-week rent. Most of them were kinda fun (for a kid) even though I wished in those tim
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by lindbergh 11y ago
I'm also building a data driven (mostly NLP) portfolio optimizer, based on expected utility theory! It's a naive model, but it also has statistical bounds on its efficiency relative to the regret, which is an interesting bonus. Ou
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by lindbergh 11y ago
Programming in Mathematica is weird. I've done a whole course in machine learning using only mathematica (as opposed to more obvious choices, like matlab or python) and while writing small functions was very easy (and functional progra
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by lindbergh 11y ago
Then I suggest the website of the course where you can find homework and lots of material. You can follow the course as if you were enrolled. Also the free pdf copy of the book will certainly be useful. http://stanford.edu/c
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by lindbergh 11y ago
Convex Optimization by Stephen Boyd (Stanford EE364A) available on itunesU. There's also a CVX101 Mooc[1], but I don't how it's different from the original material. IMO it's not the topic itself, but the invaluable mate
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Western philosophers in ten minutes [Videos](youtube.com)
6 points by lindbergh 11y ago|3 comments
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by lindbergh 11y ago
His book Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World had a big effect on me and was my first contact with anthropology. I really enjoyed how Girard theorized what made us human in the first place (namely, rituals).
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René Girard has died(news.stanford.edu)
115 points by lindbergh 11y ago|65 comments
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by lindbergh 11y ago
My biggest gripe is that it won't recognize that a block of text is math, unless I enclose it with $, which would then clutter the org file.
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by lindbergh 11y ago
What kind of shortcuts? Most LaTeX symbols will be replaced with their unicode counterpart, eg. \theta will become θ inline, once you toggle `entitiespretty' with C-c C-x \. Likewise for superscript and index, it changes as you type. M
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by lindbergh 11y ago
I recently discovered org-mode. Honestly, it is by far the best note-taking application I've ever used, especially in any math-heavy field, since it supports cross-references and most math symbols. And unlike LaTeX which ends up filled
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by lindbergh 11y ago
Speaking of which, miles per hour get converted in m/s, which is not very useful
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by lindbergh 12y ago
That's also the kind of article/news I come to HN for.
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by lindbergh 12y ago
Really cool. Now I must figure a way to add this as an emacs mode. Good job!
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by lindbergh 12y ago
In the meanwhile, here's a little class I made that implemented just enough pattern matching as a fluent interface : https://gist.github.com/neuschwanstein/6c0c9256c1dc5b370011 . Not pretty, but it works well enoug
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by lindbergh 13y ago
why is part of the net folklore from the late 00s that also saw the emergence of Hacker News, ruby mainstream programming et al. I believe there's a strong respect in this community for the work this man has done in previous years.
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by lindbergh 14y ago
At any rate, it seems evolution has shifted from an individual action, to a cultural (or, dare I say, a civilizational) action. And from a cosmic point of view, it makes a lot of sense.
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by lindbergh 14y ago
Tables are easier to code for a functional programmer. That's why.
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by lindbergh 15y ago
Sincerely, this is a lovely tradition.
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by lindbergh 16y ago
This is a great idea. I hope applied mathematics in the 21st century will leave purely quantitative fields like physics and engineering, to reach more quantitative ones, for example finance and economy (already done), biology, ecology, and
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by lindbergh 16y ago
There is an obvious flaw to this poll: hackers don't share the same time zone. For example, right now, it's still very early in the morning in India.
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by lindbergh 16y ago
Oh, just use Safari 5's reader.
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by lindbergh 16y ago
I enjoy the idea of Singularity very much, but if this article is representative of what this movement is all about (although it appears not to be), it seems flawed to me. I had the feeling Singularity is oriented toward biology, while I be