waveman

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by waveman 14y ago
It was a truly awesome machine. When I left college (which had a B6700) and went to work on Honeywell and IBM machines it was like taking a long sad walk back to the dark ages. One small example: the job control language (WFL) was an Algol
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by waveman 14y ago
I went through a few weeks ago and the queues for non-EU were pretty long - nearly an hour. This 26 hours after I left home. Welcome to England! To be fair in Doha the queues were almost as long, just to transit. Back in Australia, 5 minute
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by waveman 14y ago
This is so retarded. Everyone has known for decades that these models (Black Scholes / Gaussian Copula) are wildly inaccurate in the tails. where the real risks live. They are roughly accurate on quiet days. Mandelbrot has been publishing o
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by waveman 14y ago
Porn = porn that men like Erotica = porn that women like
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by waveman 14y ago
> Can you tell me how you reduced your fructose consumption? What foods did you eliminate and what did you replace them with? Basically I stopped adding honey to my coffee (sad - it's delicious) and cut my fruit intake from 10-15 pieces
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by waveman 14y ago
> should be relatively easy to test, even by individuals. I did this. I cut my fructose consumption to the equivalent of two pieces of fruit a day and easily lost weight after years of struggling. My cholesterol fell from 255 to 160 mg/
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by waveman 15y ago
Having said that, the state of Prostate Cancer treatment and the lack of research into Prostate Cancer is a disgrace. Prostate cancer kills similar numbers to breast cancer yet gets half the research funding. Thank goodness we live in a pat
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by waveman 15y ago
Actually there was a reduction in all-cause mortality. It's just that the study's design was such that the reduction could possibly have been due to chance. This is not at all the same thing as "finding no ... benefit". This lack of sta
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by waveman 15y ago
Actually not even that. The study found a difference but the effect was not large enough or the study was too small to prove that the effect could not possibly have been due to chance. Time and time again we get people who should know bette
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by waveman 15y ago
This is so frustrating. In medical studies the word "significant" does not mean what it means in normal English. It refers to the possibility that the effect was due to chance, not to how large, important, or clinically significant the effe
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by waveman 15y ago
Only the preview videos are live. The course is subject to the same delays as the other Stanford courses.
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by waveman 15y ago
Her complaint here, one of many many complaints of sexism, seems to be that her manager is unhappy that she loads him down with complaints and too much detail that he doesn't want to know. She puts this down to sexism. It's not clear why th
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by waveman 15y ago
I read her blog because it has some interesting ideas. However it reminds me of PZ Myers' blog in some ways. There is the same repetitive theme of how stupid all these people are compared to moi. "Within six months, they had an actual user-
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by waveman 16y ago
Practice writing code on a whiteboard. Learn your algorithms. Learn "O()" notations. As well as the above they seem to look for a good GPA, good school, and a record of having achieved things.
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by waveman 16y ago
This is a classic Dunning-Kruger situation. Penrose is out of domain of expertise here. He has not bothered to study the theory of mind (eg see the lack of relevant references in his book). His arguments do not stack up, as extensively docu
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by waveman 16y ago
http://seykota.com - not what you think you are after, but very useful regardless. Also http://www.trendfollowing.com/ Trading is very hard. Markets are efficient at a first approximation and where they are not efficient, simple arbitra