AlphaMonkey

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by AlphaMonkey 17y ago
I entirely agree with you. In fact, there are still people doing arbitrage on eBay, although eBay is now an established site visited by millions. An example: some people look for misspelled items being auctioned (an auction where the item b
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by AlphaMonkey 17y ago
Fair enough. Please do note: 1) I find your writing style juvenile and distasteful. Maybe some of you yanks actually like that kind of writing. Personally, such writing makes the reading intolerable, even if the content is interesting. 2) S
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by AlphaMonkey 17y ago
The world changed faster than Statistics. These days, anyone with a computer can analyze data sets, which is awesome. The problem is that the Statistics books are not designed for the masses, and the experts are concerned with technicalitie
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by AlphaMonkey 17y ago
I find MIT OCW courses on Statistics a good source of references. Reading books takes time, but you can find some lecture slides and lecture notes there. I, too, found Statistics impenetrable. One solution I found was to learn Statistics fr
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by AlphaMonkey 17y ago
I am not saying Zed is wrong, I am merely saying his post is not really that insightful... at least when compared to other essays on Statistics one could read instead. For example, what Cosma Shalizi writes on Statistics is much deeper th
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by AlphaMonkey 17y ago
Nine out of ten people learned Statistics from teachers who knew jack of Statistics. The difference between Statistics and Math is that Statistics is data-oriented and somewhat "experimental". Yeah, I hated Statistics in high-school, but wh
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by AlphaMonkey 17y ago
OK, I must admit that one made me laugh. I assume it's a rhetorical question, so I won't even answer...
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by AlphaMonkey 17y ago
Maybe the "Chinafication" of NK started in 2009: last year the country had its first pizzeria opened, and there was a beer ad on TV! :-) http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/16/north-korea-pizz... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-paci
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by AlphaMonkey 17y ago
Not to mention that only in textbooks can one find perfect risk-free arbitrage opportunities. Unfortunately, the real-world offers only quasi-arbitrage opportunities. Fortunately, contrary to what some academics believe, such opportunities
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by AlphaMonkey 17y ago
Ruby ninja, guitar-player extraordinaire , self-taught Statistics expert... wow!!! Zed's propaganda machine rivals that of Kim Yong-il. Get this: you need deep understanding of the fundamentals, otherwise you're not doing Statistics, you'r
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by AlphaMonkey 17y ago
Look, I know it's none of my business, but if you're a newbie and you want to learn some Statistics, wouldn't you be better off checking the MIT OCW pages, or the countless lecture notes in PDF format that can be found on the web? This is a
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by AlphaMonkey 17y ago
At least I don't write like a slightly retarded teenager, and I don't pretend to be an expert on Statistics. Thanks for the "kudos" anyways.
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by AlphaMonkey 17y ago
Zed Shaw should stick to his area of expertise. His angry, opinionated rants on topics he clearly lacks deep knowledge of are perfect examples of the pseudo-intellectual junk that litters HN from time to time.
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by AlphaMonkey 17y ago
Even sadder is that married British women are very seldom worth a f*ck.
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by AlphaMonkey 17y ago
When I mentioned that NK could be a gold mine, what I had in mind was investments like real estate, utilities, land, agricultural commodities. My point would be clear if I had not suggested moving factories there to take advantage of cheap
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by AlphaMonkey 17y ago
Very good point. China is only the tip of the iceberg. For example, about 10 years ago, there was a scandal that Nike used slave child labor in Pakistan to manufacture soccer balls. http://www1.american.edu/TED/nike.htm
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by AlphaMonkey 17y ago
Please note that I stated that some people were willing to pay for the privilege of blowing up Somali pirates with heavy weapons. You found evidence that the Russian company selling pirate-hunting vacations was a hoax. I am talking about de
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by AlphaMonkey 17y ago
I wondered the same. North Korea is a potential gold mine. Sooner or later, the regime will collapse or open up to capitalism, and when that happens the influx of foreign capital will be enormous. When the labor costs in China become "too h
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by AlphaMonkey 17y ago
Weren't some rich Russians willing to pay for the privilege of a pirate-hunting vacation off the coast of Somalia? You're assuming everyone has a conscience, which is an unrealistic assumption.
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by AlphaMonkey 17y ago
You should have added "Ask HN" at the beginning. Maybe someone would have replied.
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