<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: CrashedMintHmmm... Is there a intuitive explanation on Banach spaces...to get me started? I tried to look it up in some math books and understand nothing.I don't know anything about finance and hardly any mathematics, but here's my take on the subject.Maybe you would li...

This looks sort of like a standard prelim sequence except with less topology. You'd probably cover the material in all of those books in a single year at grad school (minus a few topics, like knot theory or some of the analysis).

<t>I don't think the term "high performance computing" is usually associated with gaming machines. Don't get me wrong, the past 15 years has had a trend towards COTS (commodity off-the-shelf) clusters, but even so there is still work done on both specialilized supercomputers and workstations. There ...

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<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: CuchulainnI think the Axiom of Choice is hardly ever needed in 'any' real life. If you are doing a PhD on the foundations of mathematics you might need it but not otherwise. Don't bother. kili,What is your interest in AOC? QuoteDedekind used cuts to prove the completene...

<t>I was reading some old threads and there was one (I don't have the link on hand, I can probably try to find it) where N was arguing that the AoC is illegitimately applied by measure theory and other stuff when dealing with the reals. He didn't really spell out the details behind his argument, so ...

QuoteOriginally posted by: ZmeiGorynychStay away from chaos theory and complex systems. Bunch of rubbish, almost as bad as string theory.Would you please elaborate?

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: CuchulainnWhat kind of speedup would be needed/expected for quadcore?On a duo-core, our MC simulator was optimised 1) sequential 2) OpenMP. For the latter we got a speedup of 80% (1.8) which is almost superlinear. Will speedup on 4-core be 3.6?It's not a free lunch? At ...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: meteorkilimanjaro, it seems that you know fxjunkie. I don't think it is really nice from you to treat a newbie and a girl like that...by revealing to the whole wilmott community that fxjunkie has capilarity problems.I don't know her but she seems to (be flexible, which ...

meteor, if you plan on putting a fxjunkie in a schoolgirl outfit, you better shave his legs first.Repeat after me: "Bad boy's must be disciplined."

QuoteOriginally posted by: KackToodlesIs it hard for a life-long couch potato with no athletic background to make a switch into professional marathon racing area?Don't worry Kack, I have faith in you!

<t>Logic programming is inherently way more parallel than anything you would do in C++ (unless you were writing nondeterministic search in C++). Prolog itself is pretty old-hat; people these days want constraint logic programming, tabled logic programming, inductive logic programming, etc. Sure, peo...

Am I supposed to buy this from you?

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: movieloveRecently I saw a job post. It describes the job asto oversee intelligent database application running complex text and numerical queries in order to generate new event-driven investment ideas in real time. no specific programming/coding will be needed, but the ...

<t>Ocaml supports the same interactive functionality and would generally perform faster than F#. It gives you more options w.r.t. platform, and there has been significantly more work for supporting scientific computing with ocaml than with any .net language. The native toolset is also very strong. I...