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> <channel><title>The Research Kitchen</title> <atom:link href="http://www.theresearchkitchen.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.theresearchkitchen.com</link> <description>Rory Winston</description> <lastBuildDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:17:32 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator> <item><title>Building QuickFIX on Solaris</title><link>http://www.theresearchkitchen.com/archives/635</link> <comments>http://www.theresearchkitchen.com/archives/635#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:17:32 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Coding]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.theresearchkitchen.com/?p=635</guid> <description><![CDATA[I just had to build the QuickFIX C++ client library on Solaris, and here are a few notes that might be useful when doing the same: * Make sure you have /usr/ccs/bin in your PATH (so that ar can be &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.theresearchkitchen.com/?p=611</guid> <description><![CDATA[Probably one of the nicest explanations of the bias/variance tradeoff is the one I found in the book Introduction to Information Retrieval (full book available online). The tradeoff can be explained mathematically, and also more intuitively. The mathematical explanation is &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.theresearchkitchen.com/?p=571</guid> <description><![CDATA[The FT has a nice article on financial amnesia, which talks about the desire of the CFA UK discipline to incorporate some financial history into their curriculum, ostensibly to implant enough of a sense of deja vu in budding financial &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.theresearchkitchen.com/blog/?p=532</guid> <description><![CDATA[In the spirit of the last post, I wanted to share my newfound interest in another language that I previously hated. Ive always treated JavaScript like an unloved cousin. I hated dealing with it, and my brief encounters with it &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.theresearchkitchen.com/blog/?p=520</guid> <description><![CDATA[Herb Sutter has a fantastic short article over at his site on the new C++11 standard. The new extensions to the language are way overdue. One particular example that I really liked was the application of library algorithms and lambdas &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.theresearchkitchen.com/blog/?p=511</guid> <description><![CDATA[Last week I gave a presentation to the Melbourne R User Group on Building R Packages. The talk covered a simple package example, and an example of interfacing R with native code. The slides are here: RPackages.pdf. The R community &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.theresearchkitchen.com/blog/?p=508</guid> <description><![CDATA[Here is a little script that uses Pyton to examine the contents of a jar file (or specifically the first .class file it comes across) and then reads the major version byte and maps it to a JDk version. May &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.theresearchkitchen.com/blog/?p=498</guid> <description><![CDATA[When debugging R interactively, one hurdle to navigate is unwrapping SEXP objects to get at the inner data. Gdb has some useful macro functionality that allows you to wrap useful command sequences in reusable chunks. I recently put together the &#8230; <a
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