rmohanx
Re:Urbit is now in open developer beta
on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @10:30PM (#11859597)
New terminology makes it easier to have new thoughts, even about old things, but especially about new things.
I like the weird.
Re:The physics of life
on Sunday January 10, 2016 @09:38AM (#10875412)
Time to first 'active matter' inspired stock market simulation and HFT tool: 3...2...1...
Re:How to accelerate a program using hardware
on Thursday December 17, 2015 @09:03PM (#10756136)
PFC. Rough idea how this might compare to a pathologically and expertly tweaked assembly version?
Re:Chuck Williams, Founder of Williams-Sonoma, Dies at 100
on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @10:58PM (#10701817)
Williams? So...no moa? RIP
Re:The basic concept of least-squares modelling
on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @11:40AM (#10547497)
@shoo: Pretty interesting, Stein. Thx. Taleb advocates abs. deviation, mean abs. dev. and the like.
OP named reason to pick least squares: "easy to calc" IIRC, the rest of the rationale didn't exist back when it was invented and picked....
Re:Fractional calculus
on Saturday August 16, 2014 @05:24PM (#8187627)
Wonder how this might be applied to perturbation methods, which often (nearly always) involve an expansion with natural-numbered derivatives.....
Re:Escher: A language for programming in metaphors
on Saturday July 19, 2014 @08:48AM (#8057352)
See: cognitive blends by Mark Turner. Metaphor Mechanics