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by 609venezia 7y ago
>Is there some alternative direction available where testing and verification are easier and cheaper? A plurality of physicists now work in condensed matter. See e.g. https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063&#x
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Oh, hey! You're the guy who posted the thing and is hosting the thing. Great stuff. Don't know if the post title can be edited, but it would have been clearer to me if it had said "Charity fundraiser job fair to help quaranti
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by 609venezia 7y ago
To clarify, from the page: this is an online career fair that charges recruiters to participate and donates the money to CDP COVID-19 response fund. <<COVID-19 is an unprecedented situation causing events all over the world to change
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by 609venezia 7y ago
Reading this review, I can't tell what Lindley hoped to contribute with this book or why Al-Khalili found it noteworthy enough for a NYTimes book review (which itself is so brief that it doesn't seem to say much beyond something l
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by 609venezia 7y ago
Thank you. This closure makes sense. "their strategy involved selling options on volatility exchange-traded products, which is essentially a bet that profits when markets stay calm." Would this fund be considered "large"
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by 609venezia 7y ago
Yikes. Which funds is he referring to? Do we have any references more solid than a tweet?
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In mathematical logic, yes--loosely speaking, higher order logic lets us use more layers of quantifiers ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-order_logic ) Here, the blog is referencing Mark's book on investing (li
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by 609venezia 7y ago
> The only downside is that someone has to take notes, which can be hard while walking, unless you can remember everything. Not recommending that everyone try to learn this, but Wolfram has rigged up a laptop so that he can walk and work
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by 609venezia 7y ago
I'm with you that surging stocks are more responsible, although the lack of trade costs probably pours oil on the slippery slope to irresponsible risk. Favorite anecdata is the froth around the reddit user WSBGod, which pushed that cra
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by 609venezia 7y ago
Wow. I'm shocked. I had never heard of these controversies, despite spending some time interested in Frankl a while back. They seem plausible at first read, and should receive more attention. Thank you for highlighting them.
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> I believe Julia to be the future but so far the adoption rate in house has been low. Why do you believe it will be the future, and what do you see as the barriers to roll-out? I ask as someone who is curious about when/whether to
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by 609venezia 7y ago
You might enjoy Attia on distance cycling while in nutritional ketosis: https://peterattiamd.com/ketones-carbohydrates-can-co-exist/ (like you, he eats carbs when riding long distances--even with the aim of staying in
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by 609venezia 7y ago
Thank you. (For other readers, this is an interview about public transport issues) It sounds like he had a relatively severe stutter. I hope the university didn't fail to renew his contract on that account.
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Did anyone here get to experience one of Norton's lectures? It seems "Cambridge failed to renew his contract... citing his eccentric lecturing style which they thought deterred students," so I am curious what they might have
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I had the same first thought. The book is called _Notes on the Collection of Transfers_, and is available for free on the Sidis archives: https://www.sidis.net/TransfersContents.htm
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by 609venezia 7y ago
I live in a sun belt city. It's terrifying. People routinely run red lights and blast through turns even when pedestrians have the crosswalk with a green light. I am nearly hit at least a few times a month.
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> Divorce, scandal, drug addiction and various other personal issues can all be financially ruinous. This is well-said. James Hughes advocates families account their balance sheets on human, intellectual, financial, and social capital. F
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by 609venezia 7y ago
I ran a search and it looks like there hasn't been much HN discussion of legal tech since 2015 ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10765654 ), but it seems like there has been a big push of funding into the space. But
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LegalTech hits $1B investment as lawyers embrace automation(blog.lawgeex.com)
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I think it's a combination of PR and probably some genuine development as a person. He has been pretty open about being maniacally focused on Microsoft's success in the earlier years, even to the point where he views it as a mista
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by 609venezia 7y ago
This is another great example illustrating the need for reproducible research practices even in the hard sciences, in this case so that the papers in question could be easily checked after Luo's excellent finding. For an earlier discus
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These phrases are probably much more popular among the Hacker News reading crowd than the broader culture, I would bet.
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by 609venezia 7y ago
Well said. I didn't get them when I was younger and still had the power fantasies. Now "I've loved you for 5,000 years" is what really gets me.
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Investigating the Hubble Constant Tension – Two Numbers in the Standard Model(arxiv.org)
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by 609venezia 7y ago
For other folks who might have made the same misreading I did: This thread is a new post from stack, not another link to 21153224 which has the similar title "update to our community and an apology" The new post is @ 199 upvotes v
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Wow. That's a surprise. I wonder what kind of stick they had to beat him into that?
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by 609venezia 7y ago
I agree it isn't apples to apples. I wonder if it is nevertheless the best comparison, though, because they're two fundamentally different beasts. If I have a lump of cash I need to deploy, I can buy lump sum SPX at t=0. I can&#x2
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by 609venezia 7y ago
Those positions are still being valued according to some internal measure at AH, I think. So they should be factored in already.
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Isn't the money in some sense tied up if it has to be ready for a capital call? At minimum it should be in some relatively low risk liquid investment. So there is opportunity cost regardless of whether the investor or the fund holds it
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by 609venezia 7y ago
Do you have a source for her abuse? A quick search didn’t turn up anything—your comment is the top google result :)

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