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Funny to see this after all these years. I read this paper just before starting college in 2003 and it inspired me to spend most of the summer writing a rudimentary Lisp interprete…

He's actually done a few of those, for example this recent interview with Agnes Callard https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/agnes-callard-ty...

Does anyone know what the apparently pocket-sized notebook computer is? The one in the picture about halfway through the post, with the watches draped over it.

Right, those anomalies could simply exist unexploited until the market is better understood. For example, you used to be able to earn money buy buying the 501st largest company in …

Here's perhaps a better way to say what I'm getting at: identifying and investing with a manager that predictably outperforms a benchmark is just as difficult an intellectual chall…

If the Efficient Markets Hypothesis (in its stronger forms) is false, there should be managers who are able to identify the cheapest stocks within the S&P 500 and thereby outperfor…

Are you running vim within tmux? Which terminal emulator are you using? Were you able to get full color support? I tried doing this a few months ago but was never able to get Vim s…

HP still makes RPN financial calculators. I recently switched to using an HP 12C at work, after holding out for a long time. It's amazing how quick it is once you get used to RPN, …

Very common, to the point of being nearly universal except in relatively recent construction. Many (perhaps most) NYC apartments don't have thermostats. Don't like the heat the lan…

Not to be confused with Slang, the in-house language at Goldman: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3392636/slang-goldman-sac...

Terence Tao, one of the preeminent mathematicians working today, had a pretty good post on this exact question: http://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/there%E2%80%99s-...

What's the name of the short story? Sounds like it could be interesting.

Check your link? That URL returns a server error.

Another thumbs up for "An Engine, Not A Camera." A great book on the philosophy of financial modeling and how models influence the markets (the "engine"), rather than providing sta…

Yeah, he skipped over what might have been the most interesting part of the talk! I have a very cursory understanding of how the GIL works, so it would be nice to understand what's…

Believe it or not, there's a novel that combines pretty much all these things: Charles Stross's "The Atrocity Archives." If you're into sci-fi, you need to check this out. It's a b…

SPJ actually discusses this a bit in his talk. He says that Haskell has tried to achieve the ease and intuitiveness of imperative programming through things like the "do" syntax su…

Duke's name comes from a tobacco businessman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Buchanan_Duke