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It was a truly awesome machine. When I left college (which had a B6700) and went to work on Honeywell and IBM machines it was like taking a long sad walk back to the dark ages. One…

I went through a few weeks ago and the queues for non-EU were pretty long - nearly an hour. This 26 hours after I left home. Welcome to England! To be fair in Doha the queues were …

This is so retarded. Everyone has known for decades that these models (Black Scholes / Gaussian Copula) are wildly inaccurate in the tails. where the real risks live. They are roug…

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> Can you tell me how you reduced your fructose consumption? What foods did you eliminate and what did you replace them with? Basically I stopped adding honey to my coffee (sad - i…

> should be relatively easy to test, even by individuals. I did this. I cut my fructose consumption to the equivalent of two pieces of fruit a day and easily lost weight after year…

Having said that, the state of Prostate Cancer treatment and the lack of research into Prostate Cancer is a disgrace. Prostate cancer kills similar numbers to breast cancer yet get…

Actually there was a reduction in all-cause mortality. It's just that the study's design was such that the reduction could possibly have been due to chance. This is not at all the …

Actually not even that. The study found a difference but the effect was not large enough or the study was too small to prove that the effect could not possibly have been due to cha…

This is so frustrating. In medical studies the word "significant" does not mean what it means in normal English. It refers to the possibility that the effect was due to chance, not…

Only the preview videos are live. The course is subject to the same delays as the other Stanford courses.

Her complaint here, one of many many complaints of sexism, seems to be that her manager is unhappy that she loads him down with complaints and too much detail that he doesn't want …

I read her blog because it has some interesting ideas. However it reminds me of PZ Myers' blog in some ways. There is the same repetitive theme of how stupid all these people are c…

Practice writing code on a whiteboard. Learn your algorithms. Learn "O()" notations. As well as the above they seem to look for a good GPA, good school, and a record of having achi…

This is a classic Dunning-Kruger situation. Penrose is out of domain of expertise here. He has not bothered to study the theory of mind (eg see the lack of relevant references in h…

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