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Friday, July 22, 2011
A Busy Summer
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The summer is proving busier than expected. In June, I started taking remote classes at Stanford in pursuit of a Graduate Certificate in Dat...
Friday, May 6, 2011
TomTom Foolery
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Three years ago I bought a TomTom ONE XL for a family trip. It worked great but I haven't used it much since then. We took another famil...
Friday, April 29, 2011
Diving into R
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I've wanted to learn R for a long time. A new project at work is providing an ideal opportunity to finally use it. So far, it's bee...
Monday, April 11, 2011
Book Review: Final Jeopardy
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Final Jeopardy: Man vs Machine and the Quest to Know Everything by Stephen Baker I found the Watson exhibition very exciting . I was ...
Monday, April 4, 2011
Seymour Cray Videos
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I've long admired Seymour Cray as the genius behind early super computers such as the CDC6600 , Cray-1 , and later Cray systems. Howev...
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Quants: The Alchemists of Wall Street
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Last week, I stumbled across a good documentary by VPRO on quantitative analysts . It features a couple of famous "quants", Paul...
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Commemorating Discovery's Last Launch
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In commemoration of the Space Shuttle Discovery 's last flight , I decided to post a link to the YouTube videos of MIT's Fall 2005 ...
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