GFKjunior

Joined 15 years ago

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Nov 29
I like statistics and Ruby.
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Comment · 14 years ago
Those are pretty standard in cryptography, the equivalent would be "foo" and "bar".
Comment · 14 years ago
You are absolutely right. In matters of love and attraction fortune always favors the bold.
Comment · 14 years ago
I love Taleb, I've been following his advice for a few years now and have found that absolutely nothing in my life has changed except having a lot more free time and a lot less stress.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Econometrics

Econometrics is the science of modeling the economy. But like you said it's pretty much impossible to get calculations correct.

Comment · 14 years ago
Seems like these "missing foundations" can easily be remedied by reading a couple of algorithm books.
Comment · 14 years ago
I think it's still on sale.
Comment · 14 years ago
The site was cool but I found it funny how every person on the most wanted list was hispanic or black. But at least only one was because of drugs, the others committed legitimate crimes.
Comment · 14 years ago
Very cool! Thanks for the info, that was exactly the type of advice I was looking for. I've only used postgres as a backend for metasploit so my background is limited. I'll definitely do some research and learn more about databases.
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I think that number is very reasonable. Zerohedge.com is very libertarian and they also use the 23% number provided by shadowstats.
Comment · 14 years ago
Texas is hardly small government.

I would call them more right-wing conservatives (neo-cons really).

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