Blank Screen after Hibernate or Sleep?
Have a problem of your laptop or PC staying blank after waking up from hibernation or the sleep mode? Here is how to fix it.
Gurus of a Disturbing Kind
A word of caution on charismatic gurus and shortcuts to salvation.
The Wilmott Magazine, Quantitative Finance
A New Kind of Binomial Tree
How does a binomial tree pricing model look in a functional language? The last excerpt from my next column for the Wilmott Magazine (May 2009 iessu), this post may be a bit technical for those who are not practitioners in the field of quantitative finance.
The Wilmott Magazine, Quantitative Finance
Functional Programming
Another excerpt from my next column in a quantitative finance magazine, here is an explanation of why functional language looks interesting to a mathematician.
The Wilmott Magazine, Quantitative Finance
Magic of Object Oriented Languages
Another excerpt from my next column in the Wilmott magazine to appear in May 2009, this post takes a high level look at object oriented languages and introduces the concept of functional programming. The next two posts in this series may get a bit technical.
The Wilmott Magazine, Quantitative Finance
Paradigms All the Way
The power of paradigms in computing, and how it aids in the seemingly endless march of the Moore’s Law. An excerpt from my next column in the Wilmott magazine to appear in May 2009.
The Wilmott Magazine, Quantitative Finance
Zeros and Ones
Ever marvel at the ability of computers to obey your wishes, while completely screwing up what you really wanted to do? Here is an insight into this computer mind, from a quantitative finance professional’s point of view. From my next column to appear in the Wilmott Magazine. This post is the first of a short series of posts on this subject.
Physics, Science, Creative, Quotes, Philosophy
Change the Facts
Of truth and beauty — in physics and philosophy
Topical, Work and Life, Life and Death, Philosophy
Of Dreams and Memories
What does it mean to say that something happened if you cannot remember it?
Stinker Emails — A Primer
Another old gem from my newspaper columns collection, this post talks about email duels that all of us have gone through at some point in our career. Enjoy!
How to save a string to a local file in PHP?
This post is for those of you who write plugins for WordPress. If you are not geeky enough to do that, you can safely ignore this post. Other PHP web programmers find it useful as well, if you have trouble saving a string to a file on your client’s computer without creating intermediate files at your server.
Creative, Books, Life and Death
Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow
To say that Humboldt’s Gift is a masterpiece is like saying that sugar is sweet. It goes without saying. I will read this book many more times in the future because of its educational values (and because I love the reader in my audiobook edition). I would not necessarily recommend the book to others though. I think it takes a peculiar mind, one that finds sanity only in insane gibberish, and sees unreality in all the painted veils of reality, to appreciate this book. In short, you have to be a bit cuckoo to like it. (If you like the book and still maintain that you are not cuckoo, well, you just feel that way because you are!)