Comment Re:Is it me alone... (Score 1) 82
What? There is a new equation editor in Google Docs? Cool. Gotta check it out!
(Apologies for ignoring your plug for Zoho. Maybe you shouldn't have mentioned the shiny equation editor.)
What? There is a new equation editor in Google Docs? Cool. Gotta check it out!
(Apologies for ignoring your plug for Zoho. Maybe you shouldn't have mentioned the shiny equation editor.)
Some of us predate UID's and only got one to banish John Katz from our homepage.
Hear! Hear!
We all resisted from "belong"-ing to any "internet community", unlike those who cave in to every latest fad.
(%$#!^&*#& me grasshoppers...)
This is the greatest comic I have ever read! A few pages into the comic and I am already a fan. There's just so many excellent insights.
"As an initial tactic, I've had some bankers shot this morning to keep up confidence."
The Duke of Wellington for the new Federal Reserve Chairman!
I'm pretty sure the original poster for OS9 was not talking about MacOS 9. There's an old OS called OS9 that had nothing to do with Macs.
I think you are probably referring to Plan 9 from Bells Lab.
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/
By "nothing that Maple cannot do" is meant the formulas are manipulated automatically using Maple and then cut and paste into the paper.
PDE is fairly involved but not at the application level. Same with MRF. (I take it that you meant these theories in the applied sense since you mentioned "Once you get closer to actual practice".)
I hope you understand that the average mathematician has to publish new results in mathematics constantly to stay employed in the university. Are we talking about the same average mathematicians here? (I am not a mathematician but I have worked with some before, and I too have to publish constantly to stay employed.)
Look at the flowers OzPeter above linked to, and you can judge Mapplethorpe's artistic quality using a more neutral subject.
As another person commented: "You're way too easily impressed. I'm sorry but either you have very little experience with this kind of photography or you're pulling my leg. There is literally much better on flickr."
I would say I have taken better pictures myself, but that is too subjective for me to say.
While I fear empowered censors more than the effects of such "art," we should at least have the honesty to admit that such "art" expresses the worst of humanity. I'm not even 30 yet, and quite frankly I've grown sick of the self-assured, hipster posers who think this trash is edgy and avant-garde.
Exactly what I have been saying, and it's actually even worse.
When classified as art, these works will bring down the status of those art that actually require good senses and rigor (mathematics, physics, paintings, programs, inventions).
Furthermore, these "arts" may make people so annoyed that they start to regard less of freedom of expression. In the end the rights to say what is important (as in "Galileo") become compromised, together with these other rights (the rights to say "I got a needle in my penis").
Widespread panic not the only thing left out
Exactly what I felt when I first saw the study.
The model don't need more consideration for "widespread panic". It needs to factor in the "irrational euphoria" that has made this casino so profitable!
A sample size of a few hundred should be used for a scientifically valid test.
I say we go for the asymptotic distribution just to be sure.
Chill. The grand-parent post is merely suggesting that the math used in finance is not really that smart to start with (nothing that Maple cannot do). It's an expression many mathematicians use. They do it to physicists sometimes too.
The human behaviour they should put into those models arent panic or riots, but what humans do when know what those models predict. Thats the biggest problem about predicting what people will do, what if that people know that prediction?
Well if the behavior is self-referential, chances are that it will diagonalize itself out the entire set of all Turing computable functions, making it beyond computation.
But the stock market is not really that complicated. It's just a fantasy finance casino that people go to because they believe that if they don't invest in something, what they have is going to become less in value -- a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The market isn't zero sum or negative sum (well, usually). When the economy is good (which used to be most of the time), almost everyone wins.
Are you saying that stock market gains actually follow REAL economic growth?
Explain to me the P/E ratio then.
The economy is NOT growing as fast as stock prices.
It's a fantasy finance casino. That's all it is.
Now people have gone soft.
Yes. They get softer if you cook them. Very good for digestion.
Great, now when someone mentions BFS I won't be able to just assume Breadth First Search.
I pity the google engineers.
Why do people seem to think the only reason developers create something is to get market share? Seems about as sensible as bashing an artist's work because "it will never become as famous as the Mona Lisa"
Because UI classes teach this.
The same UI classes that until today, have not figured out why some people prefer the CLI to the GUI, at least for certain tasks. The question is like, "communism or capitalism?" (I mean Real Capitalism, not the American variant where Wall Street gets everything.) It's whether you want to provide things to people, or to give them the ability to provide for themselves.
Make sure your code does nothing gracefully.
