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Intuitively, it is to indicate degree of 'truthiness'. Certainly false {F} is less truthy than either both true and false {T,F} and neither true nor false {}, which are in turn les…

In case anyone is turned off by the expectation of wishy-washy flim-flam, it's worth noting that Graham Priest may be a professor of philosophy, but is most well known for his work…

> Do people ever go to poor areas to enjoy themselves? Absolutely! There are many poor areas in London (Whitechapel, Brixton or Dalston, for example) but the idea that you would ha…

So your advice is - to enjoy SF, stay in the expensive areas, and get a taxi if you need to go through the poor areas, or the parts where there might be homeless people?

I don't think you understand what the phrase "elephant in the room" means. If lots of people are talking about something (and certainly, a lot of people are talking about the tech …

Nice work. There's a similar article which uses Haskell as the base language instead of Python, which is also worth reading (this is actually how I learned both Haskell and Scheme.…

William Faulkner once criticised Ernest Hemingway by saying that he "had never been known to use a word that might send the reader to the dictionary." Hemingway responded by saying…

To explain the flaw in the reasoning, it's easiest to generalize - y = x ^ (x ^ x ^ x ^ ...) = x ^ y and hence x = y ^ (1/y) = exp( 1/y * log(y) ) which is defined for y > 0. Graph…

This is very much a beginner's book. When I interviewed for internships in the summer of 2008, the interviewers expected that I would already be familiar with a large portion of th…

I don't think there's anything wrong with what they say. Your chance of winning one round of RPS is 1/3. Out of three games you win once, lose once and draw once on average. If you…

To clarify for the poster who asked you the question, playing aggressively might mean better more than your hand otherwise dictates, but it might also mean betting more often even …

Is that the Georgia Tech/Tucker Balch course? I'm amazed that GT let him teach that course. It's full of errors, omissions and bad habits. I vaguely followed along, and the most no…

It really depends on what you're trying to achieve. The skills and knowledge necessary for long-term equity investment, short-term statistical arbitrage, derivative pricing and hig…

The page you linked to is Dimensional explaining their five factor model, and it sounds like they only use that as a basis for a more complicated model. The very example you gave t…

I don't think I would call CAPM, the Fama-French 3-factor model, VaR, Black-Scholes and GARCH "the best of the best". I would probably call the selection of topics "finance basics …

I would be more forthright - the Haskell book was a travesty that never should have been published and I wouldn't want to inflict it on anyone (I have experience with all three of …

Does anyone know if this is any good? I don't think that Packt is a particularly reputable publisher. They published a similar book about Haskell (called "Haskell Financial Data Mo…

I'm not going to claim that it improves my creativity or makes me a better person, but for the last few years I've generally taken at least a half hour out of the middle of my work…

I'm really excited by Julia. We use Matlab heavily in my team (as in, we probably have 300-600 Matlab instances running at any given time not counting the ones on personal workstat…

It's tough for someone who's not a professional musician to tell the difference between a just fifth (3:2) and an equal tempered fifth (2^(7/12):1) but it's not impossible. Probabl…

It's important to note that the top answer is hand-tuned to work with that specific image. It probably doesn't generalize well.

There's no risk of going to jail for 10+ years.