crntaylor

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by crntaylor 13y ago
London Haskell Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/London-Haskell/
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by crntaylor 13y ago
Sorry I missed the talk! Did it get videoed? They usually are.
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by crntaylor 13y ago
The part that really surprised me was this: We only had 23 years of Python interpreter development, how would things look like when Python is 42, like C? C, which I always think of as an ancient venerable systems language, is less
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by crntaylor 13y ago
It was a reference to the Hemingway app. If you paste acqq's comment into Hemingway, it suggests "Four adverbs used. Try to aim for two or less." As humour goes, it's a few levels of indirection away from Seinfeld. But y
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by crntaylor 13y ago
You might not work any less hard, but you'll certainly take more risks if you don't experience the downside. Answer quickly - how much of your net worth would you risk on a bet with 1% chance of a 1000X payout? Now how much would
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by crntaylor 13y ago
The investment banking industry basically invented the concept of OPM (other people's money) in the 1980s (okay, I'm sure it existed before that, but the 1980s was when it became a buzzword). A great read if you're interested
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by crntaylor 13y ago
If it helps, you can replace "Secure" with "X" where X is any adjective, and my argument will still work.
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by crntaylor 13y ago
In case it's not clear to you, there are two reasons that you are getting downvoted: 1. snark, and 2. you are committing the logical fallacy of affirming the consequent. [0] In particular, dijit asserted that "Not ACID => Not s
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by crntaylor 13y ago
You tend to hear high frequency traders refer to the code that makes pricing and trading decisions as a system , or signal , or model , or (very occasionally) algo (all refer to slightly different things) but I have never heard them re
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by crntaylor 13y ago
This would have been a significantly more enjoyable experience if the title of the submission didn't give away the ending.
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by crntaylor 13y ago
The pattern will break down once you get past 8192, which is 2^13. That means that the pattern continues for an impressive 52 significant figures (well, it actually breaks down on the 52nd digit, which will be a 3 instead of a 2). The reaso
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by crntaylor 13y ago
I think you mean "its a art".
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by crntaylor 13y ago
I think you need to parse it as more (portable and secure) rather than (more portable) and secure
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by crntaylor 13y ago
Having someone re-write my 7 line Haskell program into 40+ lines of C# is the best argument I can think of for why it's worth learning a functional programming language ;)
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by crntaylor 13y ago
SICP has something to do with square roots in the first chapter, although I don't think they do this particular refactoring. I first saw it (or something like it) in John Hughes' Why Functional Programming Matters . Which, by the
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by crntaylor 13y ago
"Turning your code inside out" is a great piece of advice, as it often opens up abstractions and refactorings that you didn't realize where there to begin with. The same idea is behind several common object-oriented design pa
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by crntaylor 13y ago
Disclaimer - I've never played Starcraft or Magic: The Gathering. But I expect that in both of them, just like in real life, there is some value to having unspent liquid assets, in that they give you optionality. Unspent liquid asset
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by crntaylor 13y ago
I know an accounting joke: An engineer and an accountant are on a train when they pass between two fields of sheep. "Boy, there are a lot of sheep in those fields." says the engineer. "There are 1,005" says the acco
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by crntaylor 13y ago
Anyone thinking about taking this course should be aware that Bruno Latour is not, and has never been, a scientist. He is in the same camp as Derrida, Lacan and Foucault, in that he has a great deal to say about science but very little expe
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Dijkstra's specification for a million dollar computer in 1965 [pdf](cs.utexas.edu)
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by crntaylor 13y ago
Completely shameless plug for a tiny probabilistic programming language that I wrote as an embedded DSL in Haskell: https://github.com/chris-taylor/hs-probability The code that solves this problem is: solve = do
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by crntaylor 13y ago
> I would also REALLY hope that somebody who is applying for a job in finance understands the bond prices and interest rates. You'd be surprised at how many people can't answer instantly. Or how many people can't give a co
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by crntaylor 13y ago
Sure. The slick answer is The chance of picking the biased coin is 1/1000. The chance of seeing 10 heads from a fair coin is (1/2)^10 = 1/1024. These are nearly equal, so given that you've seen 10 heads, there is a 50&#x
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by crntaylor 13y ago
You can only see the result of the flips, you can't examine the coin. Yes, it comes down to estimating the probability of having a biased coin given that you have seen it come up heads ten times in a row.
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by crntaylor 13y ago
Good question, and one that sometimes comes up when I ask it in interviews. You are tossing the same coin 10 times.
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by crntaylor 13y ago
The problem with asking Monty Hall in an interview is that ~75% of candidates already know the answer.
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by crntaylor 13y ago
Interesting. I think the proof of Wilson's theorem is easy enough to be accessible for a non-mathematician - for non-prime n you can find a pair of numbers in the product (n-1)! that are congruent to 0 (mod n), and if n is prime then y
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by crntaylor 13y ago
I was a mathematician, and now work in finance (systematic trading). I've found a reasonable negative filter is A jar has 1000 coins, of which 999 are fair and 1 is double headed. Pick a coin at random, and toss it 10 times. Give
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by crntaylor 13y ago
My point is that it's silly to care about how many points you have in the first place.
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by crntaylor 13y ago
The author's main problem stems from his desire to use Stack Overflow as a mechanism for gaining internet points - as is illustrated by his confession that "I saw a simple Java question, hit Google, read briefly, then synth

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