Some reading for lazy weekend evenings. The MIT AI Memo 239, also known as “HAKMEM” contains mathematical and programmatical hacks from the times when computers were wood and men were steel. You can read it here: HAKMEM.

PS. See item 63 for description why 239 is a nice number.

JP Morgan accumulate profit margin invest destroy in full effect!

Check out a quite interesting/entertaining/sad article in the Rolling Stone magazine. It’s a story about corruption on so many levels.

It’s like gambling on the weather. If your bondholders are expecting you to pay an interest rate based on the average temperature in Alabama, you don’t do a rate swap with a bank that gives you back a rate pegged to the temperature in Nome, Alaska.

Not unless you’re a fucking moron. Or your banker is JP Morgan.

(Cheers to Global Guerrillas for the link.)

You’ve perhaps read part I and tried it. Everything works until the moment when you need to electronically sign a document. The web browser barfs an error message, you cannot sign anything.

The good news is that this is super simple to fix.
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