Choronzon

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by Choronzon 13y ago
Its actually generally a lot easier to profit buying a bubble than shorting it.There are a lot more points of increase than points of collapse. Paulson made a fortune shorting the housing market,plenty of people predicted the collapse but P
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by Choronzon 13y ago
Printing money is basically intrinsic to our "real currencies" so if you remove that you have something quantitively different,effectively a new type of currency. Technically currency is a medium of exchange and can be linked to a
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by Choronzon 13y ago
Its inherently deflationary anyway (which is a terrible idea for a currency).
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by Choronzon 13y ago
Looks about right to me. Thing is with stats you want to tell a story and ideally create testable hypothesis based on it.It might be a wrong story but mouthing off "Correlation does not imply causation or the plural of anecdote is not
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by Choronzon 13y ago
This looks like a mean rather than a median distribution,so our American here is probably heavier than than the "average" normal. Weight distributions are starting to skew to the right due to the existence of a small percentage of
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by Choronzon 13y ago
All javascript ends up looking like Finnegans Wake after awhile anyway.
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by Choronzon 13y ago
A very narrow interpretation. Reading quality literature is primarily about developing a theory of mind. How others think and react ,not about grabbing the women and not about you(which is what you understood from the post).What you imply
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by Choronzon 13y ago
Simple template is great for a data driven website.Little to distract from the graphs/info. Many thanks
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by Choronzon 13y ago
Slightly off topic but the matplotlib interface always annoyed the hell out of me. The pyplot wrapper meant that there are effectively two ways to do any visualisation,which breaks python "zen" pretty badly ("There should be
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by Choronzon 13y ago
Just stop. Your forcing yourself to go against your own nature,you dont need to code and good coder is not more valuable than a good artist or architect or plumber. Master something you enjoy.If you want to directly help your co-founder now
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by Choronzon 13y ago
Healthcare Managing the automated transition of ageing populations with increasingly more automation and less budget per patient.
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by Choronzon 13y ago
Start working on independent visualisation projects using d3.js.Data visualisation is not data science but 90% of people cant really tell the difference and if you can build up an impressive visual portfolio you will get the work you want.
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by Choronzon 13y ago
Git has a horrendous user interface design,only mitigated by systems like github which manage to abstract much of the inconsistent logic of the interface from the user. Torvalds may well be an excellent coder but I wonder how this lack of
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by Choronzon 13y ago
Musk is a good general staff officer in the von Hammerstein classification system(Hey it makes more sense than myers briggs or that crap always posted here based on watching mediocre sitcoms.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by Choronzon 13y ago
Yes,but given that US belligerence over Syria has diluted Putins commitment to detente I doubt he has much to worry over.A lot of gloves have come off recently.
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by Choronzon 13y ago
Diregard Taleb,the man cant trade (buying OTM puts and hoping for the world to end is not a trading strategy.)You are looking at basically a three regime model,(standard statistical events,macro breakdown,and "dont know").The prob
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by Choronzon 13y ago
Channels are boundary conditions on an estimation of a price or a price itself,effectively a form of error bar. Your statistically looking at central tendencies and dispersion.
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by Choronzon 13y ago
Amen, Forex has less fundamental information than other markets,incredible leverage and is subject to (legal) political manipulation at the highest level (see Sovereign wealth funds). In addition relationships I have found holding for stoc
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by Choronzon 13y ago
As far as mac installs are concerned while i am fond of OSX for day to day usage you are way better putting your postgres install in a linux VM,it will reflect production better and be far easier to install.
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by Choronzon 13y ago
This one for the secret is a classic. http://www.amazon.com/review/R2X2TB3S4O5I60
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Ask HN: Any recommendations for a UK accountant specialising in IT contracting?
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by Choronzon 13y ago
This book also serves as excellent guide to ipython/matplotlib visualisation so I would recommend it for this even if you are not interested in primary subject matter.Very well done on all counts.
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by Choronzon 13y ago
Im willing to bet that if you are going to do a statistical breakdown on most successful companies investment money has has directly or indirectly (ie through connections) family money,with friends or personal connections a close second. Wh
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by Choronzon 13y ago
Signal to noise ratio is very high,50x in some cases which makes this a very hard (though interesting ) problem.
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by Choronzon 13y ago
Daily data from 10+ years is still relevant,intraday I have found less so,probably due to algo trading/market making reducing the time horizon of momentum based strats and the change to the one cent minimum tick size ( if we are talki
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by Choronzon 13y ago
The best generalist fit is leadership of diverse specialists(note leadership not management).having problem domain experience in divergent areas you can use people with deeper knowledge in specific niches and weave things together. However
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by Choronzon 13y ago
Everybody is too focused on the project,the wrong question is being asked here.It should be "How do I PROTECT myself as a developer in a project that is heading for failure." All throwing together weekend solutions will do is waste your pr
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by Choronzon 13y ago
Ha, If bitcoin has 10% chance of succeeding it is worth 13k? No,politely just no. Read the following and reassess. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Petersburg_paradox
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by Choronzon 13y ago
Except of course that most historical businesses outside of the mobile/social circle jerk have been started by people who had families.The take-home point here is you wont get funding unless you new VC owners can be sure of exclusivity on y
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by Choronzon 13y ago
Absolutely. Being able to politely walk away from a negotiation not in your favour is a powerful psychological edge and will actually contribute to the bottom line. You should be mentally willing to fire any of your clients at any time,whil

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