Monthly Archives: August 2011

The world’s largest printer manufacturer may give up the PC business

Posted on August 19, 2011 by Yunwei Hu

Via BeatWeek – Busted: HP kills PCs, webOS, Palm Pre, TouchPad, Rubinstein’s dream. Earlier this month I derided HP, at least on the consumer side of things, as being essentially a printer company which liked to pretend it was more … Continue reading →

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Can Math Beat Financial Markets?

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Yunwei Hu

Via Scientific American. Can Math Beat Financial Markets? Mathematical models help assess risk, but woe betide those who think math can predict stock market gains and losses By David Biello | Tuesday, August 16, 2011 |13 MARKET MATH: Can mathematical models … Continue reading →

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Re-”inventing” Monte Carlo?

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Yunwei Hu

Andrew Gelman points to a patent of Monte Carlo method. It is not surprising if considering the large number of software patents, and mobile patents dispute recently, in which all the tech giants are suing one  another. Maybe it is … Continue reading →

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