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by huntse 17y ago
That doesn't make your statement any less false. It might suit your metaphor for that to be the case, but facts are stubborn things dude. Pretty good rendering here http://www.greatmodernpictures.com/drawinggal15lg.jpg What about this o
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by huntse 17y ago
That is a truly spectacular drawing. Astonishing.
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by huntse 17y ago
Well the claim that Cezanne couldn't draw is pretty obviously contradicted by his sketches, especially when you look at them "in the flesh".
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by huntse 17y ago
let's look at that claim in detail. For example, does this http://www.greatmodernpictures.com/drawinggal15lg.jpg look to you like it was done by someone who couldn't draw? It's pretty darn accurately drafted.
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by huntse 17y ago
I'm surprised anyone noticed.
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by huntse 17y ago
Larger and more profitable. The sort of things that will get your cv noticed by the right people around here are: Haskell, some sort of particle physics or similar simulation experience, and/or games programming experience. Oh, and for goo
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by huntse 17y ago
Messiaen was obsessed with symmetry and patterns in rhythm (see his explanation of "non-retrogradable rhythms" in "The Technique of My Musical Language"). It's silly to say that he couldn't be aware of the pattern he was creating.
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by huntse 17y ago
So I have a really interesting job in the front office at a real investment bank. I have worked here for several years and have used (among others) perl, python and C++. I have touched precisely 3 lines of java in all my time here. Our de
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by huntse 17y ago
K is an interpreted language.
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An Intro to Communicating Sequential Processes(chplib.wordpress.com)
12 points by huntse 17y ago|0 comments
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by huntse 17y ago
...oh, and covered bonds linked to a specific income stream is also not new. XS0271006602 for example is a covered bond linked to the income stream on a chain of pubs in the UK.
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by huntse 17y ago
Yup having a secondary market is extremely important. That's why it already exists (just like mezz finance, which is what he has reinvented here, also exists). The idea of having an instrument that pays linked to a particular income strea
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by huntse 17y ago
Nothing new here. This "third thing" is mezzanine finance. Mezzanine finance sits between debt and equity in the capital structure and mezz investors choose a variety of risk/reward options making their investment more debt-like or more e
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by huntse 17y ago
The appendix to Chris Okasaki's "Purely functional Data structures" has to be right up there.
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by huntse 17y ago
Well to answer your final point, there is never any absolute guarantee, but your best insurance against unemployment is to become really good at what you do. The second best is to make what you do be something commercially valuable. If yo
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by huntse 17y ago
I just checked my website before remembering that I don't have any colour on there at all. None. It's all black, white and grey. I am a diversity badass it seems.
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by huntse 17y ago
So it's a bit of a stretch to claim (as this article does) that the "many worlds" interpretation of QM is a physics fact. It is a possible interpretation of the model which is impossible (at least I think that's the case) to empirically ve
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by huntse 17y ago
Completely awesome. Good work! I signed the petition (of course) and encouraged others to do so, but I have to admit that I am delighted that it actually happened.
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by huntse 17y ago
Relational databases really are for doing relational operations. If you're using them for doing bits of arithmetic then you're going to come up against all sorts of limitations. Trivially, if you use this computed value in a where clause
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by huntse 17y ago
Yeah, I read that. As a matter of fact I think he's a very smart guy but somewhat wrong about this. Marketmaking is of positive value to society so they get paid for that. The marketmaker is being paid to take some risk and when you hit t
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by huntse 17y ago
A lot of the bank-bashing you see in the press is purely based on misconceptions of what banks do. The truth is that for small person-to-person loans of this type credit unions (and that's pretty much all Zopa really is by the way-a fancy-
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Three stooges of the high-frequency trading apocalypse(scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
8 points by huntse 17y ago|4 comments
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by huntse 17y ago
Well perhaps. So let's think about it. Black swans are not rare, they were thought to be completely impossible, and then people found them not to be impossible. So far maybe not so correct. Secondly, regarding insight. This idea which e