I’m looking to put together a small crew to take on a large arbitrage project. The (rough) model for this would be “Hong Kong Syndicate” which took on the horse betting market. To be invol...
In his book Quantum Computing Since Democritus, Scott Aaronson poses the following question: Suppose that you’re at a party where every guest is given a hat as they walk in. Each hat has either...
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT: Hello, this is Matt Asher from StatisticsBlog.com. I’m going to be reviewing Mathematica 9, from Wolfram Research. In particular, I’ll be focusing on using it with R and to ...
https://statisticsblog.com/2013/03/18/review-of-mathematica-9-and-r-link/
Over the past couple weeks, I’ve been considering alternatives to R. I’d heard Python was much faster, so I translated a piece of R code with several nested loops into Python (it ran an order...
https://statisticsblog.com/2013/02/28/statistical-computation-in-javascript-am-i-nuts/
Working on a quick-and-dirty simulation of people wandering around until they find neighbors, then settling down. After playing with the coloring a bit I arrived at the above image, which I quite...
https://statisticsblog.com/2013/02/14/population-simulation-leads-to-valentines-day-art/
A couple weeks ago I wrote about an interesting idea to clear landmines using the power of the wind. A reader asked me to comment more on the value of using these wind-powered “Kafons” to do ...
https://statisticsblog.com/2013/02/04/landmine-detection-revisited-the-inverse-unicorn-problem/
Code used: MineClearingSimulationWithKafons.r TRANSCRIPT OF VIDEO: Hello, I’m Matt Asher with StatisticsBlog.com. This video is about my attempt to simulate a landmine clearing device built by ...