August 2012
6 posts
“Why don’t successful people and organizations automatically become very...”
– The Disciplined Pursuit of Less - Greg McKeown - Harvard Business Review
Making matplotlib work on OS X Lion
If you are seeing a compilation error when building matplotlib on lion
error: command ‘/usr/bin/clang’ failed with exit status 1
Don’t worry it is a known bug.
Quick answer to make it work, built the latest version from git
pip install git+git://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib.git
Longer answer, give thanks to Damian and Matt Davis. Full thread here
“the clarity paradox,” which can be summed up in four predictable phases:...”
– The Disciplined Pursuit of Less - Greg McKeown - Harvard Business Review
“It’s linguistic nihilism, in which everything means nothing and nothing means...”
– Yesterday, I Went to the American Idol for Startups. It Made Me Want to Die. | Slog
Present is being stuck between Past and Future
Two very interesting blog posts juxtaposed in time. Draw your conclusions - i have my hypothesis.
Post 1: Sandy Leeds summarizing Bill Gross monthly update:
my summary: Be prepared to work longer in life and predict your retirement fund needs based on very conservative rate of returns.
Post 2: Felix Salmon on the negative externalities of HFT (using data).
my summary: HFT is changing the...
“The psychologists guessed it was because silver medal-winners compare themselves...”
– Would You Rather Win Silver Or Bronze? (Be Careful What You Wish For) : The Torch : NPR 