Computing
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Ross: The Industries of the Future
The importance of a book like “The industries of the future”1 by Alec Ross can hardly…
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Video Transcoding: Handbrake + libdvdcss
Suppose you had your collection of DVDs which you lawfully bought in the marketplace. Suppose you…
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Feed-forward networks and teleology
Bertrand Russell, in “History of Western Philosophy” pgg. 86-87, writes: The atomists, unlike Socrates, Plato, and…
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Market completion with Wishart variance
The following page documents the simulation happening in the model described here, i.e. the Wishart based…
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Octave meshgrid, surf and video slideshow
Since the release of the splendid GUI, Octave has become again one of my favorite tools. Here…
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Ipython: simple finite differences
Ipython as a prototyping tool for scientific computation is very neat and useful indeed. After the…
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Ipython in Windows 8: “Hello World”
This post documents the installation of Ipython in Windows 8. As an example of Don Knuth’s…
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Science Friction (1)
Mersenne numbers, when they are primes, are routinely used to feed MonteCarlo random number generation. They…
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Make video of (Markovian) density transition
Suppose one has managed to numerically compute the forward transition density of 2-dimensional Markov process under…
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Theodicy 2.0
If someone is, like me, working all the time with RNGs and strives to produce MonteCarlo…