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by newt0311 18y ago
Wrong. Congress shouldn't be investing at all. Seriously, the returns when congress invests and when private investors invest are so drastically far apart that I am continuously left wondering how congress can convince voters to let it cont
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by newt0311 18y ago
researchers work in universities, almost all of which have site-wide licenses. Site-wide licenses for mathematica also start to approach reason. Its doubtful that that many researchers will have to pirate it.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Switch to linux and the OS stops caring entirely.
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by newt0311 18y ago
read the chart again. 0.7 projected vs. 1.0 actual. That is a very significant change. Then just think about the 1.0 number. The total amount of debt is what everybody in the US earned in year. A scary thought in of itself.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Why is this "story" on a major national (in this case international) newspaper? Why is this even on hn? Does the New York Times not have anything more important to report?
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by newt0311 18y ago
Agreed, partially. In mathematics, proofs really have two purposes. The foremost purpose is obviously to assert the logical necessity of the statement being proven. The second not so widely publicized purpose is to gain insight into mathema
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by newt0311 18y ago
Nice. Very similar to http://schneier.com/paper-street-performer.html Nice to see some implementation of it.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Well... matplotlib (and scipy to a lesser extent) have atrocious design and documentation from a programming perspective. On the other hand, Matlab is worse in that regard and Python is an excellent general purpose programming language. Unl
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by newt0311 18y ago
Since when does a decent database lock tables for concurrent transactions?
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by newt0311 18y ago
Like I said before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=334294 "For the 30 seconds that it will take to break this. This measure is not so much Orwellian as it is idiotic and a waste of time. Its sole purpose is to put up a PR stunt and t
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by newt0311 18y ago
It may help if they tried removing things instead of adding more bloat on top.
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by newt0311 18y ago
nevertheless the anti-nuclear fringe will go haywire over this regardless of its benefits. You are forgetting that these guys operate like a religion, not a rational group. If not, they would have gone pro-nuclear a long time ago.
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by newt0311 18y ago
None of this is going to happen without a more streamlined regulatory process to allow their sale in the first place.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Its funny how we Americans run like headless chicken when the unemployment rate hits 6.3% while Europe has rates like that in the good years.
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by newt0311 18y ago
I would recommend an India like system if your daughter is deficient in mathematics. Also, mathematics is unique in that it deals with absolutes. It starts with some axioms and places everything else on top with irrefutable proofs along the
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by newt0311 18y ago
So... I spent the first 10 years of my life in India going through its education system and am currently a mathematics major at Caltech. From my experience, the Indian education system is heavily geared towards attaining high average outp
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by newt0311 18y ago
A well ordering is just some way of ordering a set made formal. Basically, if you have a set, you can find a relation such that any subset will have a least element. I should also point out that the example given of a set that is not well-o
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by newt0311 18y ago
Defaultdict and friends were one of the benefits of completing the object model of python. It is made by subclassing userdict and effective.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Please. Disdain for shareholder value does not lead to incredibly low profitability. There are several examples of US companies who put shareholders last and still do extremely well (P&G comes to mind). The primary problem of Japan's ec
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by newt0311 18y ago
A nice reminder that there is much to learn about this world. There is far too little humility in science (and I speak as one who aspires to make a career in academic fields).
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Rise of the political economy: Pols now want more strings on TARP.(online.wsj.com)
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by newt0311 18y ago
so is systematic irrationality. Turns out that according to polls, people has systematically irrational beliefs when it comes to voting (probably because they have no immediate personal stake). Poll here: http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/119
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by newt0311 18y ago
But some of the processor's cache is devoted to storing code. The original loop constantly switched the feature being compared. Since the different features (presumably) used significantly different code, the processor would end up with unn
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by newt0311 18y ago
How about the Laffer curve? Historically, whenever the capital gains tax rate has been decreased, revenue has increased due to secondary effects. That sounds like a pretty good argument to me.
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$700B bailout: Not just for Wallstreet any more.(online.wsj.com)
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Forbes on the causes of the current financial crisis.(forbes.com)
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by newt0311 18y ago
Reason why I stick with emacs: vi is a great text editor but emacs is a shitty OS... and OS >>>>> text editor.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Agreed. The ideal computer should magically figure out my intent and do it without any input whatsoever. Until we reach that ideal, it makes sense to make tireless computers do as much of the work as possible.
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Rss at http://neopythonic.blogspot.com/rss.xml
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by newt0311 18y ago
Why the insistence on a WYSIWYG editor? The best method of producing documents that I have ever used is LaTeX and it has no decent WYSIWYG interface (LyX does not provide the full power of TeX).

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