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Comment Re:Let me be the first to say: (Score 1) 341

by RWerp on Sunday May 17, 2009 @02:08PM (#27987679) Attached to: Office 2010 Technical Preview Leaked

Can one develop addins to Open Office, like for Excel?

Comment Re:Oh Please... (Score 1) 561

by RWerp on Tuesday March 10, 2009 @05:49PM (#27141529) Attached to: The Formula That Killed Wall Street

"Well, first of all, what has been shown to be wrong is the guesstimate of correlation that was input into the model. G.I.G.O"

The problem is that Gaussian copulas cannot model current market prices for ANY correlation between 0 and 100%. Read about "fat tails" problem.

Comment What does it matter? (Score 3, Informative) 689

by RWerp on Friday October 31, 2008 @07:11PM (#25590397) Attached to: Ubuntu 8.10 Outperforms Windows Vista

What matters is that I go to Dixons (UK electronics store), approach a shelf with subnotebooks and see a sign "Linux notebooks will not work with mobile Internet".

Go figure.

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