Papers We Love - QCon NYC Edition | Matt Adereth on the January 1965 issue of The Computer Journal

Meetup: http://bit.ly/2uSFBlB
Journal: http://bit.ly/2vmH1qF
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Audio: http://bit.ly/2vhADRs

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Sponsored by Two Sigma (@twosigma) and QCon NYC
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Description
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This issue contains one of the most important techniques in numerical optimization, the Nelder-Mead simplex method. My qCon talk covers the modern distributed version of this algorithm, but in this talk we’re going to try and understand the historical context by looking at everything else in the journal, from the other papers to the letters to the editor to the advertisements.

Bio
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Matt Adereth is a Managing Director at Two Sigma Investments, where he works on tools, infrastructure and methodologies for quantitative financial research. He previously worked at Microsoft on Office, focusing on data connectivity and visualization features. In his spare time, he designs open-source ergonomic keyboards using Clojure.