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Stillwell's books are very good, as are Courant/Robbins What is Math and Ian Stewart's several books(one with David Tall as collaborator). My dad gifted me What is Math in grade sc…

Will take awhile for liquidity to build, just look at volume candles on /ES contract, really not much during Asian trading session 24 hour trading is avail on brokers like IBK, web…

In context, WUSTL has a $13+ billion endowment and earned solid returns as last reported: https://endowment.wustl.edu/about/endowment/ So while this may sound like it'll be in the …

There's all kinds of text keyboard mappings including some like court reporter's input devices. i don't actually know a lot about split/ergo/mech's and don't know of any non-rabbit…

Well, there's the deficit but also China's central bank has steadily reduced Treas holdings while BoJ ramps up, and other sovereigns incented to reduce if they think dollar continu…

No idea about any of these channels but there are some on YT that give good global macro coverage: - Vix, IV vs realized/historical - option flows - market makers gex, skews, (1st …

(IMO)The 2 sigma's are getting receptive audiences as pre-announces of layoffs at Amazon, MS and others yield the analog of a 50 VIX in the options markets, where enumerating mid/g…

Lots of good info in OPs article and this thread, and good band/classical tradition suggests, also. I've been listening to a lot of 21st century string quartets, Ben Johnston (stud…

Years ago, i visited a well funded project to generate power from (I think) similar kites, high aspect ratio front rams, I'll have to ask what happened to them.

we have 2 very recent Tesla 3's here (in the US, tho i'm not sure which gen HW 3 or 4 they have and I don't drive them), i'm told (judging by center console) reliably identify anyt…

as a parallel track, PC build/repair is pretty easy but underappreciated and definitely a marketable skill. This could include building peripherals, keyboards, especially, which i …

This is a complex set of constraints, and people in Arizona, Nevada and Colorado etc have different perspectives on this. In my mind Lakes Powell/ Mead running low is somehow congr…

been awhile sincei looked but i thought Drysdale's Effective Rust was a truly excellent book and aimed at simlar audience https://www.lurklurk.org/effective-rust/

Not bad, curious about price, but as noted by others in thread, the only really special thing are the keycaps, given those you could replicate functionality on any ZMK/QMK keyboard…

here's 2 oft cited papers on PFOF so people can think about this, general conclusions are there is more possibility of actions detrimental to retail traders in options markets http…

Interesting, how did you choose APL? i worked in APL2 fulltime years ago, big asset backed bond models, big as in some of the largest workspaces the IBM support people had ever see…

reddit thread w/sources seem credible but 11 months only and still dependent on single funder https://old.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/1k0dodx/mitre_suppo...

guide to participating from home, watch: - vix futures, front month has only hit 40 3x in 20 years, tho for sustained period starting late 2007 when the contracts were a lot lower …

Don't give up on mainline, but branch out to small/medium bus ops. You have to go to as many meetups as you can, perfect your elevator pitch, make github and online presence look n…

ML texts often have refresher appendixes/intro chapters: - https://www.deeplearningbook.org/ - https://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~shais/UnderstandingMachineLearnin... _____________________…

you can also try a decent number at best buy and maybe other specialty retailers but: with the gaming oriented brands you often have to turn down RGB effects to make them tolerable…

For anybody that's at some stage of keeb curious but overwhelmed by info, look up keyboard meetups in reddit subs /r/MechanicalKeyboards/ and /r/ErgoMechKeyboards/ It's just a lot …

Thanks for this, very enjoyable. When i worked with a few dozen APL2 devs, there was a devoted clique who would always remind us of ways in which Sharp APL was superior to IBM's th…

Kotlin's ex-lead posted a nice graph of prog languages, the axes being immutable encouraged vs not and 20th vs 21st century. Unfortunately paywalled but the cluster in lower right,…