Bootvis

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by Bootvis 12y ago
Let's say for someone you think is competent.
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by Bootvis 12y ago
I have been curious for a while: What is in the opinion of the HN community a good score on Project Euler? For which scores do you tip your figurative hat?
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by Bootvis 12y ago
Wow, thanks for the follow-up! I will have to check it out later. Thanks again.
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by Bootvis 12y ago
Our team does a lot of analysis programming in R rather than taking the more common Excel/VBA approach. This allows common practices in software development such as version control tools (and the collaboration they can
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by Bootvis 12y ago
I believe those could be very valuable. It's practical and doesn't have to be too complex and touches a number interesting topics.
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by Bootvis 12y ago
I can't argue with your experiences and I guess I have been living in a bubble. With all the legacy data we have (the company started using IT in the 60s and the coverages are until the end of life... AS/400 is still in active use
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by Bootvis 12y ago
May I ask how big your company is? I'm quite surprised to hear you're the only one that codes. In our risk modeling of 15, 10 code daily. If I understand correctly tvsift shows were you can find streaming services for a particular
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by Bootvis 12y ago
What an actuary does depends, other replies indicate that actuaries don't do as much programming as I thought they did. However, I do a lot. At the moment I'm mainly responsible for building a large cash flow model (40k lines of V
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by Bootvis 12y ago
I'm a consulting actuary. What am I doing here? I've been programming since I was 11 and still do it often. You have to as an actuary. Besides I have some web skills and I'm using to build a startup doing risk management for
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by Bootvis 12y ago
My ego is saved by its weak endgame but it plays a pretty decent opening all on its own.
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by Bootvis 12y ago
The technologies you list are probably of interest for my employer. However, I will not forward your resume immediately because he will probably say no now. Can you: - Showcase some live sites you have build - Be really careful with the gen
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by Bootvis 12y ago
Well, if you want to look at it purely from a money perspective it might not be sustainable but it sure is cheaper than having an impact in a populated area. Costs of a hit in populated area: - Loss of life and productivity - Hospitalizatio
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by Bootvis 12y ago
During the middle ages the salmon was so plentiful in the Dutch rivers that maids stipulated in their contracts they would be served salmon only so many times a week.
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The Only Probability Cheatsheet You'll Ever Need(datastories.quora.com)
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by Bootvis 12y ago
I can give you some harmful side effects. This is a sentence about addiction from "Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace.[1] Because if you sit up front and listen hard, all the speakers' stories of decline and fall and surr
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by Bootvis 12y ago
But you also have to get rid of the packaging. I was imagining dumping a package of cocaine, but that's stupid: at least opening the packaging would help with the clogging by letting the cocaine dissolve. Not sure what the packaging wo
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by Bootvis 12y ago
In order of time spent: - Since forever working on an actuarial cash flow model - Since a few months: risk management in the agrarian sector - Starting to look at the Kona (K) programming language - The Matadano crypto challenge, this proje
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by Bootvis 12y ago
Seems optimistic to me. If you flush in rapid succession the reservoir has to fill again. I guess that a good flush requires, depending on circumstances, 20s of refilling. That would lower the throughput significantly. Also, the suspect has
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by Bootvis 12y ago
Seconded, got me from shit to good.
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by Bootvis 12y ago
Well observations of public information that are not widely disseminated or are hard to interpret. For example 1) Change in behavior of insiders because of regulations which leaks information, e.g. sudden silence on a certain subject 2) Obs
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by Bootvis 12y ago
It's at least unethical and probably forbidden. Furthermore I believe it is a breach of fiduciary duty. Maybe these friends tell their friends and this leads to the deal being canceled.
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by Bootvis 12y ago
Another reason could be that there are some really smart dudes profiting using only public or non-material non-public information. It seems hard to disentangle those two sources of information and I can't find anything about it yet in
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by Bootvis 12y ago
The meat isn't in the footnotes, so if a mod could update the link it would be nice.
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by Bootvis 12y ago
I don't know of any companies that completely shut down. People take a fixed day off but it's a different day for everyone. As you might conjecture this can lead to some friction where people only meet between Tuesday and Thursday
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by Bootvis 12y ago
I'm guessing Magnus thinks it was a typical computer move: Strong but not obvious and a bit off-beat.
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by Bootvis 12y ago
It is. See Centaur chess[1] and correspondence chess. In correspondence chess people don't use standardized hardware (people will probably cheat anyway) but in Centaur chess this can be done. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by Bootvis 12y ago
The computer is incredibly strong and there is no interest for a Man again Computer match but I wouldn't say it's close to being solved or that it's impossible to make further progress for three reasons: 1) Computer vs Comput
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by Bootvis 12y ago
I don't think that the EOL of XP has much do with it because they could simple air gap their Windows XP installation to continue development in a secure fashion. Unless, of course, something more shadowy is going on.
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by Bootvis 12y ago
If he didn't spend too much he should be a billionaire right now , see [1]. Money quote: "Forbes estimated his net worth at US$270 million in 2012." [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Dre#Income
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Make, Review, Fund Science and Art.(onarbor.com)
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