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Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
Opera, called Text Wrap under settings. Works great.
Comment · 13 years ago
Manulife Asset Management - Boston, MA (full-time)
Looking for an Associate Portfolio Analyst to do interesting data science-y things related to asset management -- from the firm-level ($250B) down to the security-level, and everything in-between. R, Tableau, D3, PostgreSQL, Python.
If you are a creative technology person who is into finance, this is a cool job. (I am a finance person who is into technology.)
http://manulife.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?lang...
Comment · 16 years ago
http://www.biadvisors.com sells this behavioral analysis of investor calls as a service.
Comment · 17 years ago
Comment · 17 years ago
Here is another free book, which teaches statistics through R:
Introduction to Statistical Thought http://www.math.umass.edu/~lavine/Book/book.html
I can also recommend the Statistical Aspects of Data Mining lectures by David Mease (on Google Video & stats202.com).
Comment · 17 years ago
Scrivener (for the Mac) is one you might try. PersonalBrain (multi-platform) might also do the trick.
Comment · 17 years ago
Someone please tell me "there's an app for that" on current retail hardware:
Now, Dr. Haritaoglu has come up with a wireless solution to these translation blues: a cellphone or palmtop containing a color digital camera that takes a snapshot of the mysterious text and sends it along to a server. Software on the server identifies and translates the text, sends the English words back, and superimposes them on the screen.
So Dr. Haritaoglu can point and click with his hand-held device at a sign in a grocery store window containing the Chinese characters for ginseng, shark fin and herbs, as he did recently in San Francisco's Chinatown, and, 10 or 15 seconds later, see the words in English on the screen.
Comment · 17 years ago
> What good is that when show up in Japan and can't read any of the signs around you?
Anyone have an idea of how difficult it would be to do an augmented reality iPhone app that would translate these signs, etc., on the fly for you? If I were traveling, I would probably buy an iPhone just for that app.
A quick Google search turned up this NYT article [1] from 2002 about the idea. Does this exist in a retail app already?
[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/14/technology/what-s-next-poi...
Comment · 17 years ago
A very interesting and well-done course on many of the vagaries of US copyright law from MIT OCW (video lectures) that might be relevant to the discussion:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Compute...
Especially lectures three and four:
3) Copyright applied to Music, Computers; Napster®; Peer-to-Peer File Sharing
4) Software Licensing; DVDs and Encryption
And Niche Zero for grinder.