keithalewis

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  1. I pay for and use Copilot every day, and twice on Sundays, but M$ no longer allows a simple spell check in Visual Studio without abusing users for more fodder for their LMM training. It used to be old men yelling at…

  2. I've been teaching Mathematical Finance for over a decade and always have students ask for advice on how to be successful when interviewing for a job. There are many sources of interview questions available. These are…

  3. Determinants Made Easy (keithalewis.github.io)
  4. An Underappreciated Genious (en.wikipedia.org)
  5. Excel at What You Do (quantnet.com)
  6. New AI Breakthrough (en.wikipedia.org)
  7. With apologies to Molière. I spent several hours today Google/Bing/SOing how to beat the column types from the result of a Postgres query using libpq. Oid-vey! There is no mapping from the result of `PQftype` to C data…

  8. The human brain evolved to find acceptable mates in small groups. Our evening entertainment after a long day of hunting and gathering was to sit around a campfire, tell stories,and dance to demonstrate to the opposite…

  9. Linus is a smart guy, but he is not reknown for being people friendly, by his own admission. Let's start with some facts. Linus decided to write his own version control system because the people who wrote free software…

  10. C: Your uncle's 1972 Volkswagen Thing C++: Alain Prost's 1985 Maclaren MP4/2 Java: Your grandfather's 1996 Oldsmobile Delta 88 C#: Your dad's 2000 Cadillac Escapade, with a few dents