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by murbard2 12y ago
I made this FWIW http://jsfiddle.net/nXth5/ It gets the domain of the website you need a password for, he login you want to use, a pin that can be website dependent. It outputs a deterministic password that's 12 c
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by murbard2 12y ago
This isn't a feature of teenage-hood by the way. The same patterns (power cliques, bullying, etc) are common in prisons. This is a feature of a coercive, homogeneous environment. Modern schooling - especially public schooling - looks l
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by murbard2 12y ago
Leapfrog integration will also get you conservation of energy. See this thesis: http://umu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:140361/FULLTEXT01... the basis for this awesome physics simulator: http://
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by murbard2 12y ago
Popper attempts to do away with induction. He does so by insisting that the only valid form of scientific inquiry is to refute provably false hypotheses. That leaves us with the vague notion of Occam's razor to find out which hypothese
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by murbard2 12y ago
So this is obviously a joke, but I think it illustrates something important. First off, it's important to realize that the above approach is technically correct. The odds of getting 7 zeros in the hash of your research paper by chance
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by murbard2 12y ago
Frequentist statistics is so easy to use! Just put your raw data in a text file, tar it together with your research paper, and put the tarball through a hash function. If the first 7 bits are 0, then you can reject the null hypothesis with
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by murbard2 12y ago
In finance, I've dealt with larger (but not much larger) dense matrices.
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by murbard2 12y ago
In addition, an AGI is likely to be homoiconic, representing its knowledge, its heuristics, its meta heuristics and meta meta heuristics in a flat (non hierarchical) manner.
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by murbard2 12y ago
There is neurological evidence for your thesis: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/22/magazine/22SAVANT.html Savant like drawing skills can be induced in ordinary people by selectively disabling the part of t
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by murbard2 12y ago
That's what blogspam detection is all about
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by murbard2 12y ago
We're not talking superfluidic Helium here... Glass or BPA should be fine... In that case the envelop is rigid and we might at well just suck out enough air to get buoyancy.
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by murbard2 12y ago
It really depends how big you are. A 5C difference in temperature in a sphere 5m in radius will easily hold a weight of 10kg. Or like mikeash replied, you can replace most of the nitrogen with helium.
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by murbard2 12y ago
A clear balloon containing an ecosystem would heat up due to the greenhouse effect. If it's sufficiently large and allowed to slightly expand it could float freely in the air. Imagine closed gardens flying freely around the world.
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by murbard2 12y ago
Everyone's favorite actual loophole is of course the commerce clause butterfly effect. "The flap of the wing of a butterfly affects interstate commerce, therefore it can be regulated by the federal government"
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by murbard2 12y ago
The article attempts to list various reasons why Einstein and Morgensten showed no interest in the flaw. I'll propose a fifth: - Einstein & Morgensten understood that the constitution is enforced by a set of institutions, beliefs,
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by murbard2 13y ago
Source: http://arxiv.org/pdf/math.ho/9404236.pdf
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by murbard2 13y ago
New York is all the way to the east of its timezone, which may explain why it starts "late". There are two effects at play here. 1)the official time, which affects hours of operations for businesses 2)the mean solar time, which af
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by murbard2 13y ago
Allowing it is enough, and you could populate it initially by deriving quote from the other books. The CME does it for futures.
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by murbard2 13y ago
My favorite solution to the breakdown of correlation is to have order books for beta adjusted prices. That is, you don't bid for Google stocks, you bid for a Google stock minus an equivalent amount of S&P. The price of this pair is
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by murbard2 13y ago
It's not just the gloom, there's an age old and very prominent anti-capitalistic mentality.
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by murbard2 13y ago
I not only moved to NYC, I most definitely, very emphatically left France. That country is doomed, the culture there is viciously opposed to success and ambition.
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by murbard2 13y ago
This seems to be correlation of the price level, not correlation of the returns. It's pretty much a useless metric.
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by murbard2 13y ago
Deprecate datetime and introduce datetime2 with better behavior for midnight. Problem solved.
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by murbard2 13y ago
Could you do email verification by emailing a challenge to users, and having them reply with a signature of the challenge combined with their email address? It does demonstrate control of the email account, and you cannot fake it either.
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by murbard2 13y ago
If you make cost the log of the conversion rate plus the log of the %age fee, and treat each node as a distinct node for each currency, you do get max flow min cost.
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by murbard2 13y ago
This could be quite useful for Ripple, which is basically solving a max-flow min-cost problem over a credit lines graph.
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by murbard2 13y ago
Sure, the marginal cost. You do need to have a staff, compliance, etc.
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by murbard2 13y ago
tl,dr; brokers don't charge commissions because it costs them anything to execute your trade, the fair price for a retail trade is actually less than $0. When you're paying e-trade $10, you're paying for their marketing. For
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by murbard2 13y ago
Agreed. Besides, behaviorism was abandoned in psychology because it was crazy, not because there's something wrong with reinforcement learning. It was treating the human mind as a black box trying to pretend we have no insight in human
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by murbard2 13y ago
How on earth is Bayesianism a form of behaviorism" ? And what is it with the cult of Popper. Popperism isn't "underrated", it's considered the gold standard of epistemology despite being a vague philosophical theory

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