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Just about the only advantage of being old is that one can look back on one's achievements if any and reminisce on what one could have done or even should have done. Naturally everyone's circumstances are different but how would you plan out your future if you were 21 again ?

Good question. Most of the names so far mentioned I have never come across. I suppose the journal writers get some notice but I rarely read them. The jokes section has some interesting and colourful characters.

Get yer cotton picking hands offa her - she's all mine aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah :p

Could this work internationally ? Is Janet Yellen waiting for someone to plonk $17 trillion on her doorstep ? Maybe she should copy Bitcoin and invent a UScoin. 1 coin = 1 billion US dollars, why not? Or 1 Alaska ?

Well don't be. http://www.thedailyrash.com/msnbc-fa...amas-buttocks/

Guess who is going to get the blame ?

Some of the cleverest people on the planet are employed to...solve this very problem. If they ever do then that is the end of markets/capitalism etc. It might be better to get them onto other problems like fusion power, flubber, teleporting etc.

I tried to copy and paste the article but something won't allow it. So here it is if you are interested. The biology of humans is little different from other mammals and so improving the species remains possible I suppose. http://mentalfloss.com/article/12753/sperm-bank-nobel-prize-winners

Here is another unorthodox avenue of approaching the problem. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Repository for Germinal Choice, better known as the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank, was founded in 1980 by multimillionaire Robert Graham, inventor of...

Thanks for your opinion. Just for argument's sake the BC went up to incredible values which it could and 50+% of the miners decide to reward themselves on say a 1 for 1 scrip issue then is there anything to stop them ?

As I understand it the amount of bitcoins out there is fixed. Surely it is only a matter of time before the organisers decide to issue more ( no doubt giving themselves a healthy amount too ) ? Isn't it ? Which will lower the price.

Bright guy but not really a savant. Should do well in the markets though.

Janet Yellen is going to face her first grilling as the new Fed Chairman today. Let'd hope she shows more courage than her predecessor Bunny Bernanke. The Fed should be telling the incompetent politicians just how much they have to spend and not a penny more.

A bug in the bitcoin software that makes it possible to alter transaction details over the network has caused panic-selling among holders of the crypto-currency, sending prices crashing below the $600 mark on Monday morning. Japan-based bitcoin exchange MT Gox last week suspended bitcoin...

Orthogonal distance regression by wiki Background[edit] In the least squares method of data modeling, the objective function, S, S={\mathbf {r^{T}Wr}}, is minimized, where r is the vector of residuals and W is a weighting matrix. In linear least squares the model contains equations which are...

orthogonal distance regression What is that ?

replicate - yes that could be part of the puzzle. Science is really built on the shoulders of previous brilliant scientists is it not ?

Just to change the topic slightly. Most children are not savants but reasonably normal. At what age would you let them have some fun on the markets? Is it never too early ? Or is it exposing them to some moral danger ? Children are arguably better at learning things, especially intuitive...

This thread has got off topic again. Can happiness be had for just $50k ? Of course it can. Beyond just the basics of food, clothing and shelter much depends on the folks nearby. Are they friendly ? Would they bother to pick you up if you fell over ? What turns you on ? Just find your niche...

The Rain Man film was based on a real man that could do such things as read a whole book at phenominal speed and then quote it word for word. Although he had to be helped to do such mundane things as dressing himself, he had this amazing memory. Are there any recorded cases of savants that...