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congratulations sir

That Ron Paul thing was awesome.

The deans office was one door down from mine. We both were there on weekends. He welcomed students to go in and speak with him directly rather than dropping off paper work requiring his signature. So at a least in the math dept he knew all the grad students who took an extra 5 minutes to make small talk. I never shook his hand though. He never washed his hands after using the facilities Beefy that thought did cross my mind and this would be the second time in all my years as a student when I went to the dean with a problem. I've always done the indian thing of keeping quiet and taking it but this was just a blatant circle jerk IMO. Cobra I started off trying to determine limits on parameters for exploiting arbitrage opportunities between us and Indian currencies given current limitations on hardware for high frequency trading. Was only able to come up with something reasonable for var. got bored of that kinda quickly so then looked at how the assumptions would change if we started removing bottlenecks in the Hft process. For instance everything that is done in practice would change if the latency for incoming financial data were 2ms for all firms regardless of how far they were from the exchange or what kind of connectivity they had. Further assumptions had to be made but I found a few saddle points. Some assumptions led to complete nonsense as expected. Others allowed the model to stabilize after running for a few days. Got into some good financial engineering programs but it wasn't something I enjoyed or wanted to do anymore.

the calculator wasn't needed as a safety net as is quite frequent with students these days. calculations needed to be done with numbers out to 4 decimal places which are tedious to say the least. no ak 47s. like jim, i allowed students to use all the resources he mentioned. if the student knows what he is doing, he won't need any help from a "resource." if the student doesn't know whats going on, the books and computers will only waste time so it works out quite well. i wrote an email to the dean, who has been exceptionally kind to me in the past, explaining the days events including as many direct quotes from the ta and the director as i could remember. waiting for his reply. thanks for the help all.

So I walk into the lab with a graphing calculator. TA says I can't use it for the exam even though we have been using them all year. I show her there is nothing on the calc. All the memory on the calc is free. These sheeple are so stupid that they follow rules blindly without giving in any thought to reason or rationality. I didn't want to argue and time was running so I ran back to my car and came back in 15 minutes with my scientific calculator which was not acceptable because it solved definite integrals. Then I lost my cool. The test has nothing to do with calculus. It is fucking organic chemistry. But it is the fucking departmental policy to only allow scientific calculators even though thats exactly what it says on the top of my scientific calculator. I waste another 20 minutes to go to the bookstore and buy a shitty calculator, come back and find my TA being an enormous thundercunt - "its been too long. you need permission from the director to continue the exam." i go to the director and explain all this. she reports me to the dean for academic dishonesty for trying to use a calculator that i was not allowed to use and for claiming to have done graduate work in math. obviously no one in the history of the fucking academia has ever gotten a phd in math and then pursued another discipline. i go to the dean. he recognizes me from the 3.5 years i spent on his floor doing math. tells me he will call the director and i can take the exam. i go back. the director sends me back to the ta. ta gives me the test with only an hour for a 2.5 hour test. the test wasn't hard but with essentially 15 pages of information to be written, time was the decisive factor and i wasn't able to finish. no where in the syllabus are graphing calculators outlawed. and even if they are i don't see why i was not allowed to use my scientific calculator. at this stage should i go back to the dean and tell him that i wasn't allowed to take the test in the 2.5 hours. trying to figure out if i deserve an honest second chance here or if i am being unreasonable.

Just got out of an Orgo lab midterm. It was annoying. I hate organic chemistry. I was to kill my lab ta and the lab director.

i don't get it

you are getting some good use out of that sous vide machine colin. how easy is it to clean? for someone who eats in paper plates and has now gone down to plasticware. this mode of meat/food preparation is of interest to me.

i thought the highest speed available was 45mb which is what i had. but when i was looking for a larger card for the d7000, i found the 95 mb you mention. i don't know about cf but 95/90 seems to be the fastest available sd cards.

looking for another way to waste your time? like portal. only slightly different. http://www.kongregate.com/games/ArmorGames/this-is-the-only-level-3 well maybe not.

Amazing image jon

I like the last one. If only the guy was looking at the girl. Would have been nice.

with so much hoopla around these mirror less cameras, i get the feeling that it has been more or less a failed experiment. the nex 3 and 5, it feels were far more successful. the 5n seems to be gaining a bit of ground with the 5 users but the nex 7 probably due to the cost hasn't been as successful. probably the lack of native lenses. one can adapt a bunch of rangefinder glass but one doesn't need $1000+ body to do that. for people that know what they are doing, the nex 5 is "good enough." the x100 seems to come in second place in terms of market adoption. anything after that doesn't seem to have stuck from the little i have read. i still have the nex 5 body (sold the lens) and am contemplating just keeping it and buying another zeiss lens down the line. or getting a zf lens for my d7000 and getting a f-e mount adapter. hmm

Never heard of him but god damn. What a life indeed.

The one with the guys and the tree is making me super dizzy.

That doesn't look like a bad haul duggeh. Not bad at all. Post results pls.

Happy bday dawg

Happy bday sir

i borrowed the neighbors 11" dell inspiron until i decided to get the 13". took it to school for a week. keyboard felt cramped. it was a pain. didn't need a month to find out it wasn't working for me.

fyi, if you buy a thunderbolt monitor at the same time as a macbook air with the applecare, the applecare applies to the monitor as well. only applies to things purchased together as a bundle though. can you wait until early march? when I had the thinkpad and the iPad, the tp stayed home for heavy duty stuff and for lots of typing whereas my books, music, labs etc went with me on the iPad. it was a great solution. when the tp passed away, the iPad alone didn't cut it for writing 20 page long reports and i got the macbook air. the mba made the iPad superfluous since the only reason the tp stayed home was the weight. given how light the mba is, i don't mind carrying it everywhere i go. if all you need is something for content consumption on the go, depending on the price of the new iPad, you might be able to save a few bucks. that said, if you have a machine at home, the 11" would be just fine, i think, for portable use. i just can't live with a 11" screen as my only screen. the 13" does feel cramped at times but what it lacks in size, it more than makes up for in portability and weight.

Please tell me you are at a work computer nate and not allowed to install any other browser.

I think I was invited at the sarasota meet at genes a few years ago. Came along. Found a Very nice place to hang out with some of the most generous people I have ever met.

bryan, send that usb stick back if you still have it. it could make a journey back to you. possibly.

john, whatever size you decide, check out bhphotovideo.com. they still have the deal that I got a few weeks ago - free parallels or some other software (i got parallels) and apple care for $95 (usually $250-300). i don't know what to do with parallels as i don't have a (legit) copy of windows but it was just an initial problem. now that i have gotten used to the mac os and have found mac equivalents that do the same thing that the pc program did, i am less and less inclined to get windows on this thing. i have the 13" mba and love it. 11" would have been a bit too small for me as it is my only computer and i do enjoy watching movies/tv shows on it. yes i could get a bigger monitor but 99% of my time using it has been spent at the university library or well just outside home so dual monitors seems like a waste of money.

went back to the nikon lens today before i gave up on af altogether. MUCH better. Don't think I could have gotten this shot with manual focus that quickly. Pulled out the camera of the bag, click, done. might get some zf glass just to satisfy the mf monkey on my back but Im pleased with the sharpness of the lens, at least in the center. in retrospect, i wish i had picked a higher f stop to get the front 2 flowers in focus as well but i know better for next time. essentially a 100% crop. just had to move the boundaries out to get all the flowers in the image. as far as pp goes, how does one prevent washing out parts of those petals that you see washed out? the image straight out of the camera seemed really really saturated.