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to my dear working friends
to my dear working friends: this may be of interest to you ( Read more... ) -
because pink is the new green
ordlo
cross-references: one year back and two years back.
It hasn't been an easy two years, but at least it's over.
Actually, it doesn't feel all that dramatic, since I've already spent the past month or so laxing at home. But worth commemorating for its symbolic value. After 731 days.. today was the day ( Read more... ) -
more raytracing and misc
I rewrote the raytracer, seeing that my first attempt had produced semi-spaghetti code..
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simple raytracer
I'd always thought that it would be rather hard to write a raytracer (thought process: images pretty => producing them must be hard. non sequitur ftw) Then I came across this toy raytracer in python at only 300 lines of code, and I'm like o_O. So I attempted to take a stab at writing my own tracer. The results:
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threadless
eh, does anyone want to buy stuff from threadless? they got a $5/$10 sale atm
[edit] closed, because 1) I'm getting a friend to ship and don't want to overload her, and 2) I'm going to be on duty tomorrow, and stuff is selling out fast. sorry! -
IDA NIS
Anyone interested in checking out the NIS talk this coming Monday? (I'm planning to take off :P) -
nothing better
when I was younger I used to believe that all mistakes that people made were due purely to a lack of understanding.. but then now I'm not so sure. All those times when I curl up in front of the computer instead of going out / doing something I should.. I understand quite well that I shouldn't be doing that, that I am doing it out of perfectionist ( Read more... ) -
those who walk through the night blindly
Whenever you happen to take your children to the Zoo you may observe in the eyes of the apes, when they are not performing gymnastic feats or cracking nuts, a strange strained sadness. One can almost imagine that they feel they ought to become men, but cannot discover the secret of how to do it. On the road of evolution they have lost their way; ( Read more... ) -
i've dug ditches on the road to glory
(reading dump post)
So recently I've been reading a number of finance books. I particularly enjoyed Derman's book My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance. Some of my favorite quotes:
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