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You don’t exist in a vacuum. Pretending the politics doesn’t exist is itself a political position. Excluding it is how we’ve ended up with technically impressive but socially awful systems.

Anyone remember GORILLA.BAS and NIBBLES.BAS? I learnt to program by fiddling with these.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibbles_(video_game)

Oh the irony of this giant repo for a prompt. Is this the new leftpad?

I don’t use a notebook and have done fine over the years - for those of you that are reading this and getting anxious you’re not doing your job the “right way”. I don’t have a particularly prodigious memory.

I’ve sometimes thought there’s a value to forgetting. If it matters I’ll learn it through repetition, like compression almost. It always seemed like reconstructing things from first principles saves brain space and allows for generalisation and creativity.

The authors clearly don’t intend this to happen but that doesn’t matter. Someone else will do it. Maybe this can be stopped with licensing as we tried to stop the SaaS loophole with GPLv3?

Remote attestation is another technology that is not inherently restrictive of software freedom. But here are some examples of technologies that have already restricted freedom due to oligopoly combined with network effects:

* smartphone device integrity checks (SafetyNet / Play Integrity / Apple DeviceCheck)

* HDMI/HDCP

* streaming DRM (Widevine / FairPlay)

* Secure Boot (vendor-keyed deployments)

* printers w/ signed/chipped cartridges (consumables auth)

* proprietary file formats + network effects (office docs, messaging)

It’s not just a tunnel, it’s a game-changing lifeline

Jane Street has a compilers team who do OCaml: https://signalsandthreads.com/future-of-programming/

It’s still under development but some at Google are writing a quant library in Tensorflow. https://github.com/google/tf-quant-finance

Here’s a link to the actual pricing: https://aws.amazon.com/savingsplans/pricing/

This doesn’t show up for me when googling “AWS savings plan pricing”.

> I would suggest, as a more hopeful-looking idea for getting an improved quantum theory, that one take as basis the theory of functions of a complex variable.

Nailed it.

200/20 is available from Openreach as fibre-to-the-premises but it's rare and only a handful of providers offer it.

I enabled 2FA on my Pro Dropbox account because they allowed my account to be hacked back in August. Now I have to pay for their security mistakes?

> There has never been any "study" showing that "women talk almost three times as much as men", although this non-existent "research" has been cited by dozens of science writers, relationship counselors, celebrity preachers, and other people in the habit of claiming non-existent authoritative support for their personal impressions;

Yes. Hull is the canonical, if dry, text graduates in banks are told to read.

I'd love to see this expanded to London, as someone who is fast approaching old geek status.

There is: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/8f2dd88f-db8a-46...

Many other banks expose some of their pricing code as a web application to varying extents. For example https://live.barcap.com/ which was inherited from LehmanLive, considered state of the art for fixed income back in the day.

Also as the article states, anything that still has an actual competitive advantage won't be released.

Mandelbrot on the "fractal dimension" of coastlines:

http://users.math.yale.edu/~bbm3/web_pdfs/howLongIsTheCoastO...

The figure under "The Richardson Effect" on this page has some examples of how measured length of coastlines scales with the the scale of measurement:

http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/psychology/cogsci/chaos/worksh...