rmohanx

New terminology makes it easier to have new thoughts, even about old things, but especially about new things.

I like the weird.

Time to first 'active matter' inspired stock market simulation and HFT tool: 3...2...1...

PFC. Rough idea how this might compare to a pathologically and expertly tweaked assembly version?

Williams? So...no moa? RIP

@shoo: Pretty interesting, Stein. Thx. Taleb advocates abs. deviation, mean abs. dev. and the like.

OP named reason to pick least squares: "easy to calc" IIRC, the rest of the rationale didn't exist back when it was invented and picked....

Wonder how this might be applied to perturbation methods, which often (nearly always) involve an expansion with natural-numbered derivatives.....

See: cognitive blends by Mark Turner. Metaphor Mechanics