Mod parent up please; I was about to give this K. Thompson reference. _ Generally, a body of results stemming from the Unsolvability of the Halting Problem indicates no nontrivial program property can be algorithmically established with full certainty, surely not absence of backdoors. Anyway I should think injecting hooks into USB and hard drive firmware beats trying to do your dirty work in a Windows environment -- even Government gumshoes shouldn't be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment.
I run two browsers, main one armored by Adblock Plus, NoScript, settings, etc and another one bare. If there is a hitch I move over to the latter. If it shows me a penis enlargement scheme guaranteed by Google top management I return to the first.
If you want to see all posts from certain users make them Close Friends and/or create lists putting a few in each, they act as independent Newsfeeds. Pruning of your main Newsfeed is inevitable if you have a few hundred Friends or more, I don't quite like it but hey, drilling over to someone's Timeline takes just one click. As for FB politics I wouldn't take it too seriously, my Friends run the gamut from radical left to extreme right. I choose them for being smart, witty, eloquent or outrageously amusing. Or having great boobs.
Installing MINIX took me just one evening, but that was 1990, I had to mount / umount floppies on the two drives of my 286 IBM PC, and there was no support for hard disk, so a whopping 10 MB were sadly inaccessible.
I've been running a Linux LiveCD, booted toram, no AV or anything, just basics like NoScript, to see how many attacks/infections would come in. Two years now and there have been none.
Is a bubble coming? Well, is a valuation something passably sophisticated -- or is it a version of "Facebook has 500 million users... how much is a user worth?...oh, say, 100 bucks... presto, $50 billion!"
Maybe Google's IPO idea of "e * appropriate power of 10" lends a false air of accuracy -- all those digits! Not pulled out of thin air either.
...but even so, was it THAT difficult for a number of US Administrations to realize the strategic inportance of rare earths, instead of standing idle while US production dwindled into nothingness? So now, hello urban mining. Good thing I still have my old cell phones, they might fetch a price.
The theory about market makers and the premiums they enjoy is well and good... but if you check out recent Goldman Sachs Supplemental Liquidity Provider role you might conclude it is not exactly above board.
I don't buy the 7-digit part. Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan etc didn't get to be what they are by paying 7-digit salaries to anyone who doesn't have some track record of making them 8-digit profits. Those guys don't throw money away. They offered to double or triple a professor's salary, that is all.
Front-running, sub-pennying and similar shady practices are indeed part of the landscape. However, almost all high-speed traders do it. The issue seems (to me at least) to be something else: how to out-do opponent momo (momentum trading) algorithms. There there is room for detecting others' strategies and adapting yours accordingly to gain an advantage.
It is not necessarily a joke. Ordinals do show up in the study of finitary objects. E.g. formal deductions in Peano Arithmetic are finite strings of symbols, but their proof-theoretic analysis leads to countable ordinals up to epsilon_0. Or, the analysis of Goodstein sequences or the Hydra game again proceeds most smoothly by assigning countable ordinals to numbers or tree nodes. Closer to CS, program-correctness work going back to Dijkstra involves ordinals (I still remember him staring at the blackboard working out the order type of a particular case).
To be fair, their usage here in the analysis of trading strategies, which are finite AND BOUNDED objects may be a bit of overselling.
Enjoy it until HFT gets banned!
I worked on the Magellan mission (called VRM, Venus Radar Mapper back then); Galileo had already been designed, and we did use quite a lot of it. (Thanks!) Work had started on CRAF-Cassini. It was the mid-80's. Launch seemed so far in the future...
I don't mind this lack of Bluetooth tethering. I've been tethering my T-Mobile Blackberry for years (I'm another one of the Voicestream customers TMo inherited) via USB cable -- why complain, it charges up the device. And it does work both in the US and in Europe (I've been to places in the latter with a plethora of WiFi access but also places where tethering is the only lifeline available).
I provide a slightly different version of my personal data each and every time I need to give them out. Thus if they are leaked/sold/whatever I know who did it, and possibly whom to blame/drop/sue. [Actually, I'm a T-Mobile customer and I haven't had problems. Then again, I don't live in the UK:) ]
To be precise, Nash equilibrium (for 3-person games) was shown to be PPAD-complete (rather than NP-complete). You are right, though, it is not known that PPAD (or, for that matter, NP) requires more than polynomial time -- but it is very widely believed by very knowledgeable people with very good reason that it does!
Listening to the Willy Lomans of the world is no substitute for insight and understanding. As Plato might have put it, either the managers had better understand technology or the techies get to manage.
Funny, I could swear I saw a stateline sign last time I drove on I-15... Must have been a desert mirage -- all those half-built and now abandoned Vegas hotels clouding my sight!
Indeed -- but their motherboards might. I did locate unused pins labeled "serial port" on one, tapped into them, made a serial cable and presto!... my old 56k dialup modem was happily singing again, side by side with its more advanced networking brethren.
It wasn't exactly a free call when I was dialing in (to a local Los Angeles number) and going on Usenet or downloading via Kermit and zmodem for 48 hours straight -- I did have to pay for a local call (20 cents or so). But the price was certainly right!
The spam situation has gravitated to a balancing point. It is no more than a trifling problem for me, the user (in my Yahoo email accounts maybe 2 or 3 spam messages per day get past the filters and reach my Inbox; in my Gmail accounts even fewer), the spam mailers get paid for their "services", I suppose, and the only ones getting the shaft are those who elect to advertise in this manner -- I should like to think they are wasting a substantial part of what they pay the spammers. Or so it ought to be -- WHO, for the love of Intel, still clicks on spam ads??
Even so, I hate to see the Courts going overboard. Mr. Gordon may have misused the law, but a $110k fine seems grossly excessive -- and OUT of balance.
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Mod parent up please; I was about to give this K. Thompson reference. _ Generally, a body of results stemming from the Unsolvability of the Halting Problem indicates no nontrivial program property can be algorithmically established with full certainty, surely not absence of backdoors. Anyway I should think injecting hooks into USB and hard drive firmware beats trying to do your dirty work in a Windows environment -- even Government gumshoes shouldn't be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment.
I run two browsers, main one armored by Adblock Plus, NoScript, settings, etc and another one bare. If there is a hitch I move over to the latter. If it shows me a penis enlargement scheme guaranteed by Google top management I return to the first.
If you want to see all posts from certain users make them Close Friends and/or create lists putting a few in each, they act as independent Newsfeeds. Pruning of your main Newsfeed is inevitable if you have a few hundred Friends or more, I don't quite like it but hey, drilling over to someone's Timeline takes just one click. As for FB politics I wouldn't take it too seriously, my Friends run the gamut from radical left to extreme right. I choose them for being smart, witty, eloquent or outrageously amusing. Or having great boobs.
Installing MINIX took me just one evening, but that was 1990, I had to mount / umount floppies on the two drives of my 286 IBM PC, and there was no support for hard disk, so a whopping 10 MB were sadly inaccessible.
I've been running a Linux LiveCD, booted toram, no AV or anything, just basics like NoScript, to see how many attacks/infections would come in. Two years now and there have been none.
Is a bubble coming? Well, is a valuation something passably sophisticated -- or is it a version of "Facebook has 500 million users... how much is a user worth?...oh, say, 100 bucks... presto, $50 billion!"
Maybe Google's IPO idea of "e * appropriate power of 10" lends a false air of accuracy -- all those digits! Not pulled out of thin air either.
PS. Ads? What ads? Facebook has ads?!?
The theory about market makers and the premiums they enjoy is well and good... but if you check out recent Goldman Sachs Supplemental Liquidity Provider role you might conclude it is not exactly above board.
I don't buy the 7-digit part. Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan etc didn't get to be what they are by paying 7-digit salaries to anyone who doesn't have some track record of making them 8-digit profits. Those guys don't throw money away. They offered to double or triple a professor's salary, that is all.
Front-running, sub-pennying and similar shady practices are indeed part of the landscape. However, almost all high-speed traders do it. The issue seems (to me at least) to be something else: how to out-do opponent momo (momentum trading) algorithms. There there is room for detecting others' strategies and adapting yours accordingly to gain an advantage.
It is not necessarily a joke. Ordinals do show up in the study of finitary objects. E.g. formal deductions in Peano Arithmetic are finite strings of symbols, but their proof-theoretic analysis leads to countable ordinals up to epsilon_0. Or, the analysis of Goodstein sequences or the Hydra game again proceeds most smoothly by assigning countable ordinals to numbers or tree nodes. Closer to CS, program-correctness work going back to Dijkstra involves ordinals (I still remember him staring at the blackboard working out the order type of a particular case). To be fair, their usage here in the analysis of trading strategies, which are finite AND BOUNDED objects may be a bit of overselling. Enjoy it until HFT gets banned!
Frankly, every time I watch Fox News I get the distinct impression I _am_ watching porn. Bad porn, at that.
Such an idea is part of the plot in Tom Stoppard's "Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon". A very amusing book!
I worked on the Magellan mission (called VRM, Venus Radar Mapper back then); Galileo had already been designed, and we did use quite a lot of it. (Thanks!) Work had started on CRAF-Cassini. It was the mid-80's. Launch seemed so far in the future...
I don't mind this lack of Bluetooth tethering. I've been tethering my T-Mobile Blackberry for years (I'm another one of the Voicestream customers TMo inherited) via USB cable -- why complain, it charges up the device. And it does work both in the US and in Europe (I've been to places in the latter with a plethora of WiFi access but also places where tethering is the only lifeline available).
They save lives, not money.
I provide a slightly different version of my personal data each and every time I need to give them out. Thus if they are leaked/sold/whatever I know who did it, and possibly whom to blame/drop/sue. [Actually, I'm a T-Mobile customer and I haven't had problems. Then again, I don't live in the UK :) ]
To be precise, Nash equilibrium (for 3-person games) was shown to be PPAD-complete (rather than NP-complete). You are right, though, it is not known that PPAD (or, for that matter, NP) requires more than polynomial time -- but it is very widely believed by very knowledgeable people with very good reason that it does!
Listening to the Willy Lomans of the world is no substitute for insight and understanding. As Plato might have put it, either the managers had better understand technology or the techies get to manage.
>The SysInternals guys wrote a nice article about it once, I think, but I can't find it any more. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897446.aspx "Hidden Registry Keys". I enjoyed running Reghide back then.
Funny, I could swear I saw a stateline sign last time I drove on I-15... Must have been a desert mirage -- all those half-built and now abandoned Vegas hotels clouding my sight!
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Indeed -- but their motherboards might. I did locate unused pins labeled "serial port" on one, tapped into them, made a serial cable and presto!... my old 56k dialup modem was happily singing again, side by side with its more advanced networking brethren.
It wasn't exactly a free call when I was dialing in (to a local Los Angeles number) and going on Usenet or downloading via Kermit and zmodem for 48 hours straight -- I did have to pay for a local call (20 cents or so). But the price was certainly right!
The spam situation has gravitated to a balancing point. It is no more than a trifling problem for me, the user (in my Yahoo email accounts maybe 2 or 3 spam messages per day get past the filters and reach my Inbox; in my Gmail accounts even fewer), the spam mailers get paid for their "services", I suppose, and the only ones getting the shaft are those who elect to advertise in this manner -- I should like to think they are wasting a substantial part of what they pay the spammers. Or so it ought to be -- WHO, for the love of Intel, still clicks on spam ads??
Even so, I hate to see the Courts going overboard. Mr. Gordon may have misused the law, but a $110k fine seems grossly excessive -- and OUT of balance.
The horny divorcee, huh (Remembering a classic, http://www.columbia.edu/~sss31/rainbow/prog.lang.html)