KonaB

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Zero-Suppressed Binary Decision Diagrams (ZDDs)(crypto.stanford.edu)
26 points by KonaB 16y ago|2 comments
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Hacking the Mother Code (1995)(wired.com)
4 points by KonaB 16y ago|0 comments
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by KonaB 16y ago
Not quite. Populist and pavlovian attacks are baseless. But intelligent ones are not. Personally, I not only distrust the SEC, but I also believe that "should" is a word to be left out of the discussion. What matters is what can be implemen
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by KonaB 16y ago
I can't. The trademark is already registered ;-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Capital_LLC
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by KonaB 16y ago
Thanks for the intelligent comment. Finally! I am not against intelligent critique of GS, the government, whatever. In fact, such critique is required to ensure the proper functioning of the system, closing the feedback loop and providing t
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by KonaB 16y ago
The joke is no longer amusing. Everyone is attacking GS, from utterly clueless uneducated morons to utterly devious dumb politicians with a private agenda. By attacking GS in such a gratuitous manner, one reminds others of such tragicomedy.
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by KonaB 16y ago
Pavlovian anti-GS hysteria at its best...
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Getting Started with Processing and Data Visualization(blog.blprnt.com)
6 points by KonaB 16y ago|0 comments
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by KonaB 16y ago
If you were going to burn $60, you could instead have gotten a 50 euro BJ in the Red Light District and then had an Heineken with your buddies. You probably would have sweeter memories of Amsterdam...
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Xtranormal - Text-to-Movie(xtranormal.com)
2 points by KonaB 16y ago|0 comments
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by KonaB 16y ago
Artistic freedom. I am the lizard king, I can do anything.
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by KonaB 16y ago
Well, when I learned Latin, the plural of -um was -a . Just like the plural of -us was -i . People say campuses , but they also say alumni (not alumnuses ). One should be consistent, imho...
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by KonaB 16y ago
Curricula , not curriculums ...
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The New Diamond Age (2003)(wired.com)
1 points by KonaB 17y ago|1 comments
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by KonaB 17y ago
"This doesn't make sense to me. If sugar in soda leads to cancer, then why doesn't sugar in juice?" Maybe because there are various types of sugars (e.g., glucose and fructose), and these are metabolized differently? That could explain it
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Strogatz on the elements of mathematics, from pre-school to grad school(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by KonaB 17y ago|0 comments
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by KonaB 17y ago
I suppose the article is referring to the SOSTOOLS (where SOS = Sum of Squares ) free MATLAB toolbox: http://www.cds.caltech.edu/sostools http://www.mit.edu/~parrilo/sostools The article could have mentioned that more people have worke
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by KonaB 17y ago
Yet another article blaming the poor quants. Anyone with nonzero experience in finance knows that quants have no power and earn no respect. Of course quants know that models have limitations, but if you tell your boss that one should be con
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by KonaB 17y ago
Interestingly, when Markowitz invested his own money, he invested 50% in stocks, and 50% in bonds. If the creator did not believe in his own creation, I don't think anyone should. BTW, Engle's work is kind of useless in the real-world...
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by KonaB 17y ago
A couple of links: http://www.williamson-labs.com/laser-mic.htm http://lifehacker.com/software/diy/build-a-laser-spy-microph...
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by KonaB 17y ago
So do pension funds. The word directly is there for a reason.
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by KonaB 17y ago
SVD solves most problems I need to solve. But then, I conjecture we are in different fields.
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by KonaB 17y ago
Rarely used in practice??? Dude, are you being facetious?? SVD is the sledgehammer that cracks any problem you come up against...
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by KonaB 17y ago
Having worked at a startup in London, I would claim that Zed's post applies to London, too. Life is too short to swim against the current. Whoever wants to start a company should go where like-minded people exist in large numbers, and neith
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by KonaB 17y ago
Please define financial startup .
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by KonaB 17y ago
"Finance companies get government bailouts and are more likely to succeed." You are painting things with a very broad brush. How many hedge funds are there? Thousands. How many of them got bailout funding? Virtually none. How many top tie
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by KonaB 17y ago
"...tell you they have a "tiny" hedge fund already worth 500 million and they can give you a return on your investment within one year, and in 5 they’ll be worth a few hundred BILLION. Oh, and if they fail the Fed will bail them out so the
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by KonaB 17y ago
Would you care to elaborate on that? If Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Pushkin, Kandinsky, Mayakovsky, Markov, Kolmogorov, Gelfand, Arnold, Gromov, Perelman have / had spoiled genes, then I wish such "spoiled genes" were more common in the West.
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Neural Networks on C#(codeproject.com)
2 points by KonaB 17y ago|0 comments
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Don’t invert that matrix(johndcook.com)
90 points by KonaB 17y ago|38 comments

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