Recent content by Yossarian

This sentence is false. :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gIztqPlJ3w

I have (or, years ago, I did have) a copy of that book somewhere - Frank Tipler, right? I have to say that when I began to read it (some years ago) I found the claims extraordinary, difficult to follow and difficult to credit - but you may have grasped it all better than me (particularly in...

Keeping humans viable in space travel is likely to be expensive and slow. Some day we may figure out (i) how consciousness really works and (ii) how to reproduce it. Then we upload into machines, send them out to different places, they stay in contact like beacons. If primary beacon signal...

Yo? Yo? Who's callin' me? Whoa, hoah, who are you, oh, you're who? GhostDog? Oh, ghettotrader, thank God for that, right, hey, what do you need man. Yeah, yeah, that's allright, I just wanna get out of here. Allright. Natenburg is a decent book on options. I think there are better -...

Are you talking about systems containing dependent variables? Would you make the same assertions if the 3 variables under consideration are all independent?

As a rought and ready first approximation I would be calculating mean value at each point using the point itself and all its immediate neighbours (or first and second neighbours, etc). You could experiment with weightings (eg depending on 'distance' from the immediate point). Unless there are...

Great question. Animate it. Display 3D, then give yourself a slider for the fourth (and fifth) dimension. Or, if a dimension is discretely (rather than 'continuously') indexed, display a collection of '3D' objects in a line, or an array for 5D data. You might search "information...

It will go to both, without a doubt. Anyone else reading Hawking today?

Neal Stephenson - Anathem, Cryptonomicon Greg Egan - Diaspora, Schild's Ladder Ian M Banks - Excession For anyone with an interest in where modern physics is, a superb (and very accessible) text is The New Physics For the 21st Century, edited by Gordon Fraser Cambridge UP

I think this is probably the single most agreeable thing to come out of a very difficult budget. We just had 13 years of big spending, big government.

CGT rate is now 28% for those on higher rate income tax, rising from 18%.

Crack is good for building intuition on vanillas: http://www.amazon.com/Basic-Black-Scholes-Option-Pricing-Trading/dp/0970055242/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266957476&sr=8-1

Your retort is hilarious. Thanks.

If I'm reading this correctly, just use a KVM switch - only plug in the mouse and keyboard, leave the monitors directly connected to the respective PCs. Network/NICs are irrelevant. You use some keyboard hotkey (eg press Scroll Lock twice) to switch control from one pc to the other...