Chyden Finance: profit from hypocrisy

Lately, I have been reading about Lambda Calculus and Functional Programming.
I have gotten by until now with imperative C-type languages to program small utilities for myself, and with R for statistical work.
The time has come for me to bulk up and get down to some real programming. My primary interest is in [...]

The Times — a newspaper whose name is not ‘The London Times’ or ‘The Times of London’ — reports, “NASA scientists have produced the most compelling evidence yet that bacterial life exists on Mars.”
It might be the case that mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids, but it appears that there really [...]

Forbes reports, “The current administration, compared with past Democratic and Republican ones, marks a departure from the traditional reliance on a balance of public- and private-sector experiences.”

There you have it. Individuals who have never run a business are setting business policy for the largest economy seen in all of human history.
It is bad enough [...]

http://consultingbyrpm.com/blog/2009/11/whos-afraid-of-deficits.html

A few days ago, I reported that researchers at IBM had simulated a cat’s brain.
Apparently, there is more to the story than meets the cat’s eye. Henry Markram, the head of the Blue Brain Project at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Laussane in Switzerland, is is calling shenanigans.
In a more-or-less open letter to IBM’s [...]

More news on the Great Swine Flu Megalodemic of 2009™.
The good news is, it looks like H1N1 (aka Swine Flu) has peaked in the USA.
The bad news is, the virus has mutated into resistant strains, as was more or less inevitable.
Invest accordingly.
CWE

IBM researchers announced recently that they have simulated a cat’s cerebral cortex, the part of the brain that thinks, in a supercomputer. Whether the supercomputer wanted to get chased, be petted, or take a nap is not indicated in the article.
The supercomputer used has 147,456 processors, as compared with your computer’s one or two, [...]

The Project on Government Oversight reported on 20 November 2009 that the US House of Representatives Financial Services Committee voted 43-26 on 19 November to remove restrictions preventing the US Government Accounting Office (GAO) from auditing the Federal Reserve.
The amendment was introduced by Reps. Ron “Dr. No” Paul (R-TX) and Alan Grayson (D-FL). Paul [...]

On 10 November CNN reported that leaders of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), have published a 417-page religious code entitled Corrective Studies that declares terrorism to be illegal under Islamic law.
“Jihad has ethics and morals because it is for God. That means it is forbidden to kill women, children, elderly people, priests, messengers, traders [...]