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jpcooper

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Based in Istanbul. Always looking for new contacts and projects. If you want to chat about something you think we'd both find interesting, send an email to paston.cooper, Google’s mail service.

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Smart Pipe [video]

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www.damninteresting.com 5y ago

The King’s Letters

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en.wikipedia.org 5y ago

Artist's Shit

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en.wikipedia.org 5y ago

Yartsa Gunbu

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en.wikipedia.org 5y ago

Video CD

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en.wikipedia.org 5y ago

Diogenes the Cynic

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

Cellular Automata – The Nature of Code [video]

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www.cornwall-gold.com 5y ago

How to pan for real gold at Cornwall Gold (2019)

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en.wikipedia.org 5y ago

Karlheinz Stockhausen

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

Why Drexciya took Detroit electro underwater

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en.wikipedia.org 5y ago

Cybernetics

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www.nature.com 5y ago

Algorithmic unconscious: why psychoanalysis helps in understanding AI

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drive.google.com 5y ago

Algorithmically Recognising Slice Knots

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

Dopplereffekt – Cellular Automata

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www.maths.ed.ac.uk 5y ago

Knot Theory and its Applications [pdf]

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Modern Mental Arithmetic Methods?

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worldbuilding.stackexchange.com 5y ago

How would Muslims adapt to follow their prayer rituals in the loss of Earth?

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Modern Mental Arithmetic Methods?

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vector.org.uk 5y ago

Larger Than Life Automata

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en.wikipedia.org 5y ago

Sc (Spreadsheet Calculator)

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www.stroustrup.com 5y ago

Fast Dynamic Casting (C++) (2005) [pdf]

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2ality.com 5y ago

ReasonML: Polymorphic Variant Types

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community.wolfram.com 5y ago

Implementing a Simple Proof Assistant and Type System (Mathematica)

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ku-fpg.github.io 5y ago

Haskell Object Observation Debugger

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aplwiki.com 5y ago

Tacit Programming (APL)

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tomasp.net 5y ago

Is deep learning a new kind of programming?

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

From Functional to Reactive – Patterns in Domain Modeling (2015) [video]

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docs.google.com 5y ago

We Rewrote Everything in $Hotlang, and our Startup Still Failed

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en.wikipedia.org 5y ago

C++ Expression Templates

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github.com 5y ago

Show HN: Computing Exact Odds for Betfair.com's Exchange Hi Lo in Ptime/Pspace

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Pure maths BSc., CS MSc. with work experience in banking, high-performance data analytics, smart energy and recently cryptocurrency.

Location: Istanbul, UTC+3, UK citizen, NL residence permit

Remote: Preferred. Will possibly relocate for right job.

Technologies: Scala, Haskell, C/C++, Python, Pandas, Linux, more

CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_pZBrDQNDwWNAlYJqIP1vUKAGZc...

Email: paston.cooper@gmail.com

Personal project: Exact odds calculation algo and system for Betfair’s Exchange Hi Lo card game. Haskell and C. Sadly found that no liquidity available at calculated odds: https://github.com/jpcooper/betfair-exchange-hi-lo-odds

Most recently doing: Data acquisition, analysis and development in cryptocurrency, betting. Python and Pandas mostly.

Looking for: Interesting work fitting with my background. Not bound to any particular technology or ideology and have a record of picking new ones up quickly.

Pure maths BSc., CS MSc. with work experience in banking, high-performance data analytics, smart energy and recently cryptocurrency.

Location: Istanbul, UTC+3, UK citizen, NL residence permit

Remote: Preferred. Will possibly relocate for right job.

Technologies: Scala, Haskell, C/C++, Python, Pandas, Linux, SQL, J, more

CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_pZBrDQNDwWNAlYJqIP1vUKAGZc...

Email: paston.cooper@gmail.com

Personal project: Exact odds calculation algo and system for Betfair’s Exchange Hi Lo card game. Haskell and C. Sadly found that no liquidity available at calculated odds: https://github.com/jpcooper/betfair-exchange-hi-lo-odds

Most recently doing: Data acquisition, analysis and development in cryptocurrency, betting. Python and Pandas mostly.

Looking for: Interesting work fitting with my background. Not bound to any particular technology or ideology and have a record of picking new ones up quickly.

Law and application seem to differ/lag somewhat. Each influences the other. It’s worth being aware that neither fully determines the other, and that each evolves in parallel. We live in an organic world where things are not as well defined and predictable as the typical programmer might wish. To thrive, one must dirty oneself in the actual code, rather than get bogged down in the terminology of the man page.

I learnt a good bit of C++ by going through Elements of Programming Interviews, trawling through cppreference.com and getting help from #C++ on FreeNode for the difficult parts. Coming from mainly functional languages, I actually found it quite fun going through cppreference.com and seeing all the interesting ways in which C++ does things. Especially the STL.

Pick an interesting project and continue in that vein. The biggest difficulty for me was understanding the memory model and all the different types of value, references and so on, but #C++ was again a brilliant resource for smart pointers to good articles on the difficult subjects.

Professional C++ programmers might have other opinions on how best to learn.

The article’s a bit of a troll piece, so I’m going to ignore it. One of my favourite pastimes in London was picking somewhere on the map I’d never been and just walking there. Sometimes just the centre of a borough I hadn’t been to before. Sometimes more than 10 miles in one go. Canal routes, hidden pathways, a new park, busy high streets. Lots of time to think or just watch.

I’ve been doing quite a bit of walking in Istanbul recently, but I’m running out of options. Maybe someone can suggest some interesting, out of the ordinary routes.

What's the simplest plugin I can use on Firefox that prevents me from seeing posts from chosen domains such as this on HN? It is clear that the risk of my losing out on a good post from domains such as this is minimal. I got excellent results from blocking comments on YouTube, as there is statistically negative benefit in reading them, and I am now hoping for similar results on HN.

Location: Istanbul, UTC+3, UK citizen, NL residence permit

Remote: Preferred. Will possibly relocate for right job.

Education: Pure Maths BSc., CS MSc.

Technologies: Scala, Haskell, C/C++, Python, Pandas, Linux, SQL, J, more

CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_pZBrDQNDwWNAlYJqIP1vUKAGZc...

Email: paston.cooper@gmail.com

Personal project: Odds calculation algo and system for Betfair’s Exchange Hi Lo card game. Haskell and C. No money made, because no liquidity available at calculated odds: https://github.com/jpcooper/betfair-exchange-hi-lo-odds

Most recently doing: Lots of data analysis in crypto and betting. Python and Pandas mostly.

Experience: high performance data analytics, banking, smart energy.

Looking for: Interesting work fitting with my background. I’m not bound to any particular technology.

Quite refreshing to read. My first job out of university was at a start-up bank whose first version was, would you believe, built on PHP+MySQL. This disgusted my functional purist build beautiful abstractions wanker self at the time, and I distinctly remember feeling that PHP was below me.

They are still running and handling people’s money.