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by rrrrtttt 13y ago
That Vogue girl is doing to Yahoo on behalf of Google what Stephen Elop did to Nokia on behalf of Microsoft.
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by rrrrtttt 13y ago
As a side note, I really have a hard time figuring out what was it that Gerstner did at IBM. When he started, IBM was the mainframe company. What is it doing today? They say it's services, but what are services? When I did an internshi
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by rrrrtttt 13y ago
Unfortunately I can't find anything in English, although Babylon was going to do an IPO in the US earlier this year, so you would expect there to be some information about them in English. The Hebrew article talks about how they are &
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by rrrrtttt 13y ago
Let me tell you an anecdote why I think Ballmer was incompetent and largely responsible for the sorry state that Microsoft is in at the moment. Yesterday there was a long article in the Israeli newspaper Globes about the success of the Isra
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by rrrrtttt 13y ago
Having the dct operate row-wise is not a different syntax, it's broken. The dct is a linear transformation and linear transformations operate on columns, not on rows. (Unless you apply them to the transpose of the matrix, which is what
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by rrrrtttt 13y ago
I've been working with Matlab for years and have been quite intrigued by claims that SciPy is the new, better, Matlab. But every time I tried it, it felt like a cheap knockoff. For example, let's say I want to apply DCT to a matri
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by rrrrtttt 13y ago
The same can be said about the iPod.
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by rrrrtttt 13y ago
Science publishing is a classical case of the Market for Lemons [1]. The authors are like used car salesman in that they know so much more about the results in their paper than their readers and referees. Even if just a minority of authors
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by rrrrtttt 13y ago
If I'm a Russian citizen outside the reach of the US government, then why do I care if the ones spying on me are the NSA or Facebook and Google themselves? The latest revelations change nothing for me. Fact is, Russians don't use
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My Reaction to Eric Schmidt (2009)(schneier.com)
1 points by rrrrtttt 13y ago|0 comments
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by rrrrtttt 13y ago
The Financial Times has called this the data intelligence complex, by analogy with the military-industrial complex. It's a government--private sector alliance that's spending $80bn yearly on spying on citizens with questionable re
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by rrrrtttt 13y ago
Thanks for this very lucid comment. Even people who've been working with linear algebra for years have trouble wrapping their heads around the fact that rotations in 3D have eigenvalues and eigenvectors that aren't real.
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by rrrrtttt 13y ago
(I deleted the comment after cup replied because in retrospect it was too snarky... Sorry.)
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A Crony Capitalist for the Space Age(streetwiseprofessor.com)
2 points by rrrrtttt 13y ago|1 comments
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by rrrrtttt 13y ago
How do you call the phenomenon that leads statisticians to rename themselves "data scientists"? I propose the Freud-inspired "science envy".
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by rrrrtttt 13y ago
This is a plan by an FX exchange to discretize time and to fill orders in random order. This has been previously criticized on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3855610 . We'll see how it goes.
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High-Frequency Traders Face Speed Limit on Deals(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by rrrrtttt 13y ago|1 comments
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Bitcoin and the No-Arbitrage Condition(elidourado.com)
2 points by rrrrtttt 13y ago|0 comments
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It’s time to air Cooper Union’s dirty laundry(blogs.reuters.com)
2 points by rrrrtttt 13y ago|0 comments
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by rrrrtttt 13y ago
An entrepreneur's character is truly tested only when his company is failing. You can take one of two options: 1) pay your employees and suppliers everything you owe, return any money that's left to investors and close up shop, or 2) take a
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by rrrrtttt 13y ago
I don't see how your conclusion follows from the data. It appears to have been a very wise decision by the bank, given that even though Copper Union's investments have gone bad they're still paying the loan back. If I were a bank I would ju
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by rrrrtttt 13y ago
You can trade sexual favors for all kinds of stuff, but it doesn't make it currency.
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by rrrrtttt 13y ago
Neither. It's not a currency because you can't use it to buy products and services (other than drugs and socks). It's not a commodity because it's not a raw material or agricultural product.
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by rrrrtttt 13y ago
People here are saying over and over again that there is no such thing as "real value". That's bullshit. Economists have great ways to measure real value. For example, for financial assets real value is net present value of future cash flow
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by rrrrtttt 13y ago
Could you say a bit more about how a futures market can reduce volatility in the underlying asset? This is an honest question, not being cynical. To me it seems that assets that have futures markets can be very volatile (say gold or oil), b
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Was the Bitcoin Flock Just Sheared?(streetwiseprofessor.com)
17 points by rrrrtttt 13y ago|17 comments
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by rrrrtttt 14y ago
These folks showed women a bunch of pictures of naked men and asked them which they liked best. This is beyond cargo-cult science.
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by rrrrtttt 14y ago
I don't know the numbers but I'm not sure using 2008 data gives a fair picture. If the ROA of Barclays would have been consistently so much lower than that of GSK, the capital would simply gradually move to GSK. Banks are not allowed to b
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by rrrrtttt 14y ago
I don't think it has anything to do with Keynesianism. Milton Friedman advocated a steady 1% rate of inflation.
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by rrrrtttt 14y ago
Well, maybe this could work, but probably it would have to replicate the "coercive" component of the current system. In other words, by reviewing other people's papers you somehow improve the chances of having your own papers reviewed. And

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