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I found this book very helpful in several difficult conversations over the years - https://www.amazon.com/Difficult-Conversations-Discuss-What-... It has quite practical advice as …

My favourite cell documentary is this. Has more information about the various transport mechanisms in the cell itself. Simply awesome - have watched several times to understand bet…

We are planning to overhaul our fee charging services as they are fairly simple and thus require lots of manual intervention, especially around a correction. We calculate fees dail…

In the qualia / physical world distinction, I wonder if there are good reasons we see things the way we do. Take colors: colors map to wavelengths of light. I wonder if there is a …

Thanks for doing this Peter. I am currently thinking of accepting a US computer programming job (part in US, part in Canada) and am thinking of using a TN visa to travel back and f…

Did you try an inversion tableÉ I went from shuffling around with lower back pain to fixed in about 6 weeks.

Most of those floor traders is running a small business (2/3 guys/girls) based on past contacts and trader know-how (such as it is - some better, some worse.) It's really more of a…

I'd be happy to pay my $45.71 per person per year. The BBC makes amazing shows - I don't see that Canada can't do the same. As Canadians, if we believe that we have something to sa…

Am reading his book called Breach of Trust. An easy read, but very compelling. I'd vote for him for sure.

If you haven't yet, check out Noam Chomsky - he holds the US up to their supposed 'good guy' status - fascinating. Andrew Bacevich, a retired Colonel, also has lots of interesting …

'Between 1946 and 1958, the equivalent of more than two hundred million tons of TNT was detonated (on the inhabited Marshall Islands by the US Military) — like a Hiroshima every da…

Has anyone looked at SciDB ( http://www.paradigm4.com/ ) as a replacement for KDB. Seems like it would fit the bill and has a community edition. I do see some usage in the financia…

Most definitely - 'Additionally, DeepSpark, during its code scanning, is capable of generating code for new components of Spark'

This is great. Wasn't too clear on exactly how this is used from the documents (e.g. do I just run 'python') - didn't seem that there where any 'imports' either. Found this example…

The one key part this seems to be missing is a backtesting framework. Did you look at https://www.quantopian.com/ ?

Gladiator, Baraka, My Neighborhood Totoro, Holy Motors, 12 Monkeys

Did you consider Summingbird? Seems like a lot of what you are doing might have been simplified by using Summingbird rather than building separate speed and batch layers in Hadoop …