never take oneself too seriously
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09Feb
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04Feb
http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/044428
That's a big feat. Solaris, SPARC, MySQL, Java are now part of Oracle. -
29Dec
Introducing the dreamie:
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29Dec
I am graduating soon and I started interviewing with the Big I banks for a Quant Strategist position. I had close to 8 phone interviews over the past 3 weeks all with Russian Theoretical physicists. Being a mere master’s student, you can imagine how intimidating it was. Anyways, I thought it would be fun to share some of the insanity I’ve seen:
One liners:
Question 1: How many digits does 2^71 has? How confident you are in your answer?
Question 2: How many primes are there less than 1000? Provide a confidence interval.
More involved games:
Question 3: A frog sits on an infinite line. It can jump in steps of 2 to the right and in steps of 1 to the left ( both with probability of 1/2). What is the probability that it returns its initial position.
Question 4: You have a standard deck of cards with 26 reds and 26 blacks placed on a table face down. You and a player take turns flipping the cards , one by one, if it’s red you win 1 dollar if black you loose 1 dollar. What is the optimal strategy to play this game? i.e When should you stop.
I have plently more if folks are interested.
Surprisingly , I managed to do well . I’ll find out in 2 weeks if I got the job
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03Dec
for some reason I couldn't find this TV specs anywhere on the net, so I thought I'd upload them myself. I bought it 1 week ago and I'm very happy with it.
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17Nov
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8364815.stm
"A spokesman for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said the planning approval was "yet another step that shows and proves Israel is not ready for peace"."Arab 'leaders': Oh really! what can we do?!- Nothing, as usual! -
11Nov
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10Nov
I think this is worth a vote. "The movie 2012 shows the whole world collapsing – many monuments falling and rolling. As a Muslim, would you like to include the destruction of Islamic monuments (e.g. Kaba) in this movie?"
I'll ask Roba or Naseem to ask this [I don't support polling yet]
Emmerich: "Well, I wanted to do that [show the destruction of Kaba], I have to admit," the filmmaker told scifiwire.com. "But my co-writer Harald [Kloser] said, 'I will not have a fatwa on my head because of a movie.' And he was right."
Emmerich went on: "We have to all, in the western world, think about this. You can actually let Christian symbols fall apart, but if you would do this with [an] Arab symbol, you would have … a fatwa, and that sounds a little bit like what the state of this world is. So it's just something which I kind of didn't [think] was [an] important element, anyway, in the film, so I kind of left it out."
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28Oct
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28Oct
prices of these things drop a lot:
Nintendo Wii Motion Sensitive Video Game Console
Only $164.99
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