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by wikkiwa 13y ago
I have been using Julia extensively for about a year as a data analysis tool / R and Matlab replacement. I can say it is very good, especially well suited for exploring and processing large amounts of data. Often when you're try
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by wikkiwa 13y ago
There's actually a pretty fascinating branch of game theory devoted to these kinds of problems. Differential game theory poses these situations as optimal control problems, with evaders and pursuers each having a separate control and o
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by wikkiwa 14y ago
Let's just have the chinese do our math and then pay them with the money we borrow from them.
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by wikkiwa 14y ago
BUT CAN IT SHARE PICTURES???
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by wikkiwa 14y ago
Yeah that's the scary thing. The actual cost is much higher. How much of this is inefficiency/"overcharging" is up for debate but it's pretty clear that since the bulk of the cost of healthcare for most people is paid by someone else, the
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by wikkiwa 14y ago
Is it not illegal to intercept private communications without the parties' consent? Seems like this opens them up to a massive lawsuit...
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by wikkiwa 14y ago
Here's an interview with a pro high frequency trader from a top shop if you're interested. http://techzinglive.com/page/1049/185-tz-interview-james-tho...
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by wikkiwa 14y ago
This discriminates against love triangles.
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by wikkiwa 15y ago
Money will impossible to get out of politics as long as the government has massive power to regulate the economy. As long as congress can give subsidies and contracts to favored industries and firms (necessarily at the expense of less favo
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by wikkiwa 15y ago
I have a feeling this comment thread is going to be really productive and insightful.
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No one should do startups
6 points by wikkiwa 15y ago|4 comments
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by wikkiwa 15y ago
what's the over under on this being cited in a lack-of-women-in-tech article in the next two weeks?