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That doesn't make your statement any less false. It might suit your metaphor for that to be the case, but facts are stubborn things dude. Pretty good rendering here http://www.grea…

That is a truly spectacular drawing. Astonishing.

Well the claim that Cezanne couldn't draw is pretty obviously contradicted by his sketches, especially when you look at them "in the flesh".

let's look at that claim in detail. For example, does this http://www.greatmodernpictures.com/drawinggal15lg.jpg look to you like it was done by someone who couldn't draw? It's pre…

I'm surprised anyone noticed.

Larger and more profitable. The sort of things that will get your cv noticed by the right people around here are: Haskell, some sort of particle physics or similar simulation exper…

Messiaen was obsessed with symmetry and patterns in rhythm (see his explanation of "non-retrogradable rhythms" in "The Technique of My Musical Language"). It's silly to say that he…

So I have a really interesting job in the front office at a real investment bank. I have worked here for several years and have used (among others) perl, python and C++. I have tou…

K is an interpreted language.

...oh, and covered bonds linked to a specific income stream is also not new. XS0271006602 for example is a covered bond linked to the income stream on a chain of pubs in the UK.

Yup having a secondary market is extremely important. That's why it already exists (just like mezz finance, which is what he has reinvented here, also exists). The idea of having a…

Nothing new here. This "third thing" is mezzanine finance. Mezzanine finance sits between debt and equity in the capital structure and mezz investors choose a variety of risk/rewar…

The appendix to Chris Okasaki's "Purely functional Data structures" has to be right up there.

Well to answer your final point, there is never any absolute guarantee, but your best insurance against unemployment is to become really good at what you do. The second best is to …

I just checked my website before remembering that I don't have any colour on there at all. None. It's all black, white and grey. I am a diversity badass it seems.

So it's a bit of a stretch to claim (as this article does) that the "many worlds" interpretation of QM is a physics fact. It is a possible interpretation of the model which is impo…

Completely awesome. Good work! I signed the petition (of course) and encouraged others to do so, but I have to admit that I am delighted that it actually happened.

Relational databases really are for doing relational operations. If you're using them for doing bits of arithmetic then you're going to come up against all sorts of limitations. Tr…

Yeah, I read that. As a matter of fact I think he's a very smart guy but somewhat wrong about this. Marketmaking is of positive value to society so they get paid for that. The mark…

A lot of the bank-bashing you see in the press is purely based on misconceptions of what banks do. The truth is that for small person-to-person loans of this type credit unions (an…

Well perhaps. So let's think about it. Black swans are not rare, they were thought to be completely impossible, and then people found them not to be impossible. So far maybe not so…