A few thoughts on science, engineering and technology
“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it … he who doesn’t … pays it.” – Albert Einstein So I tweeted this, and followed through today with the largest B-Pay I’ve ever made. Should be confirmed debt-free by the end of the week, at the cost of my house deposit. …
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I’ll believe it when I see it, but if they have the guts to do the right thing and remove this artificial negative gearing distortion saving many billions of $$$ (of course it’s a scam, why should I and the members of the millenials in effect personally be paying thousands of dollars in taxes or …
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From General Motors, as reported by MacroBusiness and many others, Holden is finally leaving in 2017. I’d love to rant more about subsidising an unprofitable industry to the tune of $1.9 billion dollars annually, but we’ve been given a gift. The gift of certainty. Jonathan Pincus, a former senior advisor to the Productivity Commission reckons …
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Disclaimer: As always, you seek professional financial advice (not listen to my speculative rant) before doing something like taking out a 30+ year mortgage, investing in any Australian or international stock market, or any other thing that could lose (or if you’re lucky make) you a lot of money. No one knows the future of …
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A few more illustrative photos are on Google+, for those who prefer the visual summary. The problem In the Christmas holidays of 2011, I realised something. I had a more or less standard 1.35m x 0.75m x 0.73m (WxDxH) study desk. It sucked. Cluttered: Two PCs and a Macbook Air So c. 18 Dec 2011, …
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A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to everyone from UNSW who graduated with me tonight – in no particular order – Shaun Ester, Aditya Keswani, Alexei Doudkine, Stephanie Sandoval, Sean Charles Harris, Kun (Kevin) Liu, Alexander Eduardo Newski Rincon and Anoop Jayesh Mehta. And to anyone I’ve accidentally overlooked, or who’s graduated at another time, congratulations to you …
There are times I just love my job at mathspace. Naturally being a recent graduate I have limited real-world experience, but I just can’t imagine many other places I’d be cross referencing the output of a computational knowledge engine, something at which Google/Bing fare poorly, with the most efficient StackOverflow implementations for finding (relatively small …
…and that means I sometimes have an abrasive, impersonal, even downright harsh and insulting effect on people. I’m an engineer, I solve problems, I come from the real world and the real world doesn’t care, it’ll just steamroll over you, eat you up and let you down. However, I do wish to apologise how for …
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Just felt like saying it, because I am really torn up inside and will be for a while. I just didn’t expect it and it’s really hard to have to say no to cool and brilliant ideas and executions thus far. Talk about crazy…miss 4 grad programs mostly in the final interview(s) stage. My first …
I love Wikipedia, I wish I had the time to just roam through its myriad pages and topics for eternity. Life demands more, so when I make the time to take the opportunity, I do relish it greatly. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sun&oldid=445690729 Specifically, let’s start to break down this question posted on an IRC channel some time back: …
Peter Johannes Schmidt