When random isn’t random
In erlang, random isn’t always random. Purists will claim that pseudo random number generators are never truly random, so who cares. Possibly, but this is less theoretical and more about...
View ArticleMechanical sympathy and the ghost in the machine
The snow was finally melting, day light returning, and the sun actually felt warm again. In the frigid north spring was the best season, not to be missed. One year a select few of us missed the Rites...
View ArticleQuantitative finance and computational systems
I’m writing a book proposal based on the lecture notes for my R for Quants workshop I conducted at the Baruch MFE program. I’ve discovered that a book proposal is remarkably similar to a business plan:...
View ArticleChapter 3 of Modeling data with functional programming in R is out
Chapter 3 of my book “Modeling data with functional programming in R” is available for download. This chapter describes map-vectorization and how it’s used in R. I make a distinction between different...
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