Did anyone else see the Philip Seymour Hoffman movie "The Master" and think scientology? It's a great movie, and seems to parallel the post WWII
development of scientology. Fascinating stuff.
Yeah, I'm reading this now.. I'm not really a fan of comics, they generally overload my brain or something. But this book seems much more powerful with the graphical element. I'm so impressed. Hedges always complains that contemporary society has gone too far "visual" so i guess this is his response to that.
If you see humanity as a collection of separate automata then this is not going to work.
But is this true? Are we really all a bunch of self-optimizing machines?
My teacher Adi Da points to what he calls "prior unity", and indicates that some global
internet based approach to decision making could arise virtually overnight if
we got our shit together.
... no global organization presently
is equipped to deal with the complexity of the world situation,
in a way that accounts for the whole, because of the
prevailing paradigm--which is that of separate interests
negotiating toward settlements that are most advantageous
for themselves. The global good (both human and non-
human) is thereby subordinated to the aims of the separate
interests.
In the current world, human beings are simply suffering
this situation, or exploiting it, or both. Therefore, a shift of
consciousness is essential, from the mind of "tribalism" to
taking responsibility for the whole. A new global institution
needs to emerge--one which genuinely represents humakind
altogether, or "everybody-all-at-once", and, thus, empowers
the human population as a totality.
Such a forum would allow humankind to become conscious
of itself as one great coherent force--the only force
capable of requiring and implementing systemic change
that takes all factors into account. The purpose of the
Global Cooperative Forum is to create the context for a new
cooperatively-based global civilization to emerge, rather
than the current "non-civilization" that is being imposed
worldwide by exploitative, consumer-driven economics and
related military agendas.
Yeah, cool. I have often wondered about this, when quantum effects are "amplified" by a chaotic hamiltonian. But whenever I read about quantum chaos, they start going on about random matrices and billiard balls. Very strange, i don't get it at all. Thanks for the name, do you have a link to his work?
The exchange will also need to shuffle the incoming messages (order place/cancel etc.) Otherwise it is still a speed game: who can respond the fastest to the update (even if it happens only once a second). This is actually really easy to do, or legislate. They could even do it on the millisecond scale and it would kill this insane quest for "zero" latency. Suddenly a whole lot of businesses would go kaput (the HFT scene probably is worth billions btw.)
Does anyone actually have anything to say about TFA ?
It seems to be more "game theoretic", (looking at the graph of possible moves and inferring value back to the root) which makes me think about the connection between ordinal numbers and game theory that John Conway wrote about in his 1970 book "on numbers and games".
Amen to that. I see this every day, it's also referred to as "picking up pennies in front of a bulldozer". Although I think that quote was originally referring to the act of selling cheap options.
I tried accessing hulu through a squid proxy in the US. It get's to the "loading video", but then "we are unable to stream this video. please check your internet connection and try again". I wonder if it's a bandwidth issue, or perhaps squid is doing something weird.
also by Marcus du Sautoy, is the best "easy read" mathematics book i have ever found. I was truly surprised at how literate a mathematician could be. This book also introduces group theory and goes into the story of the classification of finite groups (fascinating!!) and some bio of John Conway, and other funny stories.
Yes, this is mind expanding stuff. Conway has a fiendish habit of introducing advanced mathematics before the reader has a chance to notice!! I would also recommend his book "On Numbers and Games" although it is not particularly main-stream mathematics (but why should that matter?)
We do automated trading, but don't use a bloomberg terminal.. I don't think it's particularly essential. But you may need to get creative about how you source info, it depends what you are doing.
Job Description: Help develop real-time, network driven systems, using python/cython/c.
You will be working with a small team of programmers, network engineers and traders, to develop a lightning fast trading platform.
Experience in one or more of the following is desirable:
* real-time systems, real-time memory management
* network programming, network protocols
* distributed computing
* gui programming, rpc
Experience in the following is helpful but not essential:
* financial protocols
* experience trading equities, futures or forex products
Zone Holdings is a proprietary trading firm located at the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Open Source Software in Machine Learning
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Open Source Math
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· Score: 3, Interesting
These guys are advocating setting up a peer-review process
for open source software in machine learning. The idea
is that this would encourage researchers to spend more
time on the software component of the publication, and
perhaps produce something that others can use aswell.
The article is in the Journal of Machine Learning Research.
My main problem with python 3.0 is the loss of the print statement!
I have pestered Guido about it (including booing his talk on python3000 at europython this year)
and, he said "well i brought this up last year and nobody seemed to object" and
then to me personally "well no other language has a print statement".. I think
the dumb simplicity of python's print statement is one of my favourite python
things. It makes the language friendly (and I am a pepper-print debugger).
As Mr. Hettinger says "you can't break 'hello world!'".
I also think, more generally, that people are in for a world of pain, converting to
python 3000. There needs to be tools that are %100 reliable that can convert code
from 2.6->3.0. Otherwise, there will just be too much code mass, and it will take
a long long time for 3.0 to be accepted. Such a stall is bad news for an OSS project.
This looks really interesting:
Adam and Eve
Has Anyone tried it out ?
It looks like they take the approach of using a
domain specific language
for building the GUI.
No cameras. Use accelerometers. Lots of them (20-40?).
I guess this is a bit of a research project, but a small prototype
(eg. one arm) would not cost much.
Accelerometers are surprisingly accurate.
However this would require some reasonably clever physics algorithms
to recover body position (eg. gravity provides a constant 1g downwards acceleration).
Dude, This is such a common misconception! RSI is a problem with the fine motor control; it's the small muscles that become damaged. So in fact: the bigger the better.
Having said that, every RSI sufferer is different; injuries can happen in the strangest places, even having seemingly nothing to do with the muscles involved. eg. getting problems in the hip or leg muscles from using a computer. But even in that example it's more the fine layer of muscles that are effected and become inflamed.
For less than $20 I modded a cheap mouse so that I can have one of these "vertical" mice at home. It's a lot cheaper than the 3M model. Also you can adjust it to fit your hand exactly.
Get a strobe onto some dripping milk. When the strobe is flicking at the same frequency as the driping it looks like the drops are suspended in time. Adjust the strobe frequency and you can watch the splashes form back into droplets and move back up into the spout they came from. I built something like this at a party once, in a darkened room, it was a big hit. Called it a "time machine".
Slashdot Mirror
Did anyone else see the Philip Seymour Hoffman movie "The Master" and
think scientology? It's a great movie, and seems to parallel the post WWII
development of scientology. Fascinating stuff.
Yeah, I'm reading this now.. I'm not really a fan of comics, they generally overload my brain or something. But this book seems much more powerful with the graphical element. I'm so impressed. Hedges always complains that contemporary society has gone too far "visual" so i guess this is his response to that.
My teacher Adi Da points to what he calls "prior unity", and indicates that some global internet based approach to decision making could arise virtually overnight if we got our shit together.
From the book "Not-Two Is Peace":
Yeah, cool. I have often wondered about this, when quantum effects are "amplified" by a chaotic hamiltonian. But whenever I read about quantum chaos, they start going on about random matrices and billiard balls. Very strange, i don't get it at all. Thanks for the name, do you have a link to his work?
The exchange will also need to shuffle the incoming messages (order place/cancel etc.)
Otherwise it is still a speed game: who can respond the fastest to the update (even if it happens only once a second).
This is actually really easy to do, or legislate. They could even do it on the millisecond scale and it would kill this insane quest for "zero" latency.
Suddenly a whole lot of businesses would go kaput (the HFT scene probably is worth billions btw.)
If you have money in a financial firm -- take it out and invest it on your own.
I'm not sure what you are saying here. Are you suggesting that I invest in my own portfolio, or that I invest in a fund ?
Awesome! Someone here with a sense of humour.
Does anyone actually have anything to say about TFA ?
It seems to be more "game theoretic", (looking at the graph of possible moves and inferring value back to the root) which makes me think about the connection between ordinal numbers and game theory that John Conway wrote about in his 1970 book "on numbers and games".
Amen to that. I see this every day, it's also referred to as "picking up pennies in front of a bulldozer". Although I think that quote was originally referring to the act of selling cheap options.
I tried accessing hulu through a squid proxy in the US. It get's to the "loading video", but then "we are unable to stream this video. please check your internet connection and try again". I wonder if it's a bandwidth issue, or perhaps squid is doing something weird.
also by Marcus du Sautoy, is the best "easy read" mathematics book i have ever found. I was truly surprised at how literate a mathematician could be. This book also introduces group theory and goes into the story of the classification of finite groups (fascinating!!) and some bio of John Conway, and other funny stories.
Yes, this is mind expanding stuff. Conway has a fiendish habit of introducing advanced mathematics before the reader has a chance to notice!!
I would also recommend his book "On Numbers and Games" although it is not particularly main-stream mathematics (but why should that matter?)
A bloomberg terminal costs around $2000 a month. Don't know where you got the extra zero from.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_Terminal
As for market data, try this: http://www.opentick.com/
We do automated trading, but don't use a bloomberg terminal.. I don't think it's particularly essential. But you may need to get creative about how you source info, it depends what you are doing.
As for "millions to get of the ground" that is total BS also. Check out:
http://limebrokerage.com/
(this is the same company that does limewire)
You could probably get started on 150k. That includes investment capital (minimum 100k), servers, and subscription costs.
Job Description: Help develop real-time, network driven systems, using python/cython/c.
You will be working with a small team of programmers, network engineers
and traders, to develop a lightning fast trading platform.
Experience in one or more of the following is desirable:
* real-time systems, real-time memory management
* network programming, network protocols
* distributed computing
* gui programming, rpc
Experience in the following is helpful but not essential:
* financial protocols
* experience trading equities, futures or forex products
Zone Holdings is a proprietary trading firm located at the New York Mercantile Exchange.
E-mail contact: resumes@zonellc.com
This rube-goldberg marble machine construction kit looks awesome!! Does anyone have a spare nephew I could borrow ?
These guys are advocating setting up a peer-review process for open source software in machine learning. The idea is that this would encourage researchers to spend more time on the software component of the publication, and perhaps produce something that others can use aswell.
The article is in the Journal of Machine Learning Research.
My main problem with python 3.0 is the loss of the print statement! I have pestered Guido about it (including booing his talk on python3000 at europython this year) and, he said "well i brought this up last year and nobody seemed to object" and then to me personally "well no other language has a print statement".. I think the dumb simplicity of python's print statement is one of my favourite python things. It makes the language friendly (and I am a pepper-print debugger). As Mr. Hettinger says "you can't break 'hello world!'".
I also think, more generally, that people are in for a world of pain, converting to python 3000. There needs to be tools that are %100 reliable that can convert code from 2.6->3.0. Otherwise, there will just be too much code mass, and it will take a long long time for 3.0 to be accepted. Such a stall is bad news for an OSS project.
Simon.
Bravo! What more is there to say ?
Very exciting SF book that uses relativistic time/length contraction. Mind-blowing.
Simon.
This looks really interesting: Adam and Eve
Has Anyone tried it out ?
It looks like they take the approach of using a domain specific language for building the GUI.
Simon.
No cameras. Use accelerometers. Lots of them (20-40?). I guess this is a bit of a research project, but a small prototype (eg. one arm) would not cost much. Accelerometers are surprisingly accurate. However this would require some reasonably clever physics algorithms to recover body position (eg. gravity provides a constant 1g downwards acceleration).
Simon.
the smaller the better.
:)
Dude, This is such a common misconception! RSI is a problem with the fine motor control; it's the small muscles that become damaged. So in fact: the bigger the better.
Having said that, every RSI sufferer is different; injuries can happen in the strangest places, even having seemingly nothing to do with the muscles involved. eg. getting problems in the hip or leg muscles from using a computer. But even in that example it's more the fine layer of muscles that are effected and become inflamed.
I speak from many years of experience
Simon.
For less than $20 I modded a cheap mouse so that I can have one of these "vertical" mice at home. It's a lot cheaper than the 3M model. Also you can adjust it to fit your hand exactly.
Simon.
Get a strobe onto some dripping milk. When the strobe is flicking at the same frequency as the driping it looks like the drops are suspended in time. Adjust the strobe frequency and you can watch the splashes form back into droplets and move back up into the spout they came from. I built something like this at a party once, in a darkened room, it was a big hit. Called it a "time machine".
Simon.
Yes, it seems most of slashdot has missed the point, yet again.
This book is a whopper, and a boon to free C-language tool-writers like me (the C standard itself is a reasonably pricey document).
Simon.