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From stupid Data Mining Tricks: Overfitting S&P 500: “Norman Bloom, no doubt a champion of all data miners, went beyond trying to predict the stock market. Instead, he used the stock market, along with baseball scores, particularly those involving the New York Yankees, to “read the mind of God.”

I offer a small sample of Bloom, in the original punctuation, here: “THE INSTRUMENT GOD HAS SHAPED TO BRIG PROOF HE HAS THE POWER TO SHAPE THE PHYSICAL ACTIONS OF MANKIND–is organized athletics, and particularly BASEBALL. THE SECOND INSTRUMENT shaped by the ONE GOD, as the means to bring PROOF HE IS THE ONE God concerned with the Mental and business aspects of mankind and his civilization is the STOCK market—and particularly the greatest and most famous of all these – ie THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE.”

Full article here

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I put firefox 4 on my wifes mac mini, so I spent some time trying to get pingfire extension working with FF4. Seems to be fine, drop me a comment or email and I may be will fix it Install pingfire

From now on Western computers do not exists for me: I bought iPad 32 Gb from them 24 February for my wife’s birthday and within 4 days iPad became 100 pounds cheaper. Apple main store (online or retail) provides refund of these 100 pounds for anyone who bought iPad two weeks prior to announcement of iPad 2, but it’s up to resellers to make decision about such purchase and Western Computers decided do not provide same level of customer care as apple main store. So, any reason to buy from Apple reseller in the future, especially from Western Computers, when you can buy iPads and Macs from Tescos, Curries even cheaper?

Recently I was asked the number of technical questions which I nearly failed to answer, not because I don’t now the answer, but because I believe such questions require more information about the context. There is a common assumption about the default mind frame with ms windows and C/C+. The assumption doesn’t work for me hence I came out as a non-technical person (I think people who know me a bit will consider it as a joke, since most of the conversations I came out as a mix of geek and scientist).

• Network: what is the difference between port and socket.(I wonder what is the difference between port and file in *unix).
• between process and thread ( not much if you are reading programming erlang. I wonder what answer will be for QNX or other RTOS)

• how many ways to copy file from Linux to windows (I know at least +1 to most common: use netcat)

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