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by Galanwe 4y ago
Can someone actually explain how IQ tests work? By work, I mean how are the tests engineered, and the results computed. Long time ago someone explained to me that the engineering of IQ tests was actually drafted from a very large pool of (r
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by Galanwe 4y ago
> It really isn’t, and the math is quite literally comparable to calculating the coupon of a bond. There is no math that claims the price of a stock should be some form of discounted future cashflows since at least the 90s. Since then, a
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by Galanwe 4y ago
> with the growth stocks you have to sell to get any profits or anything back, and I don't like to sell Why? Share buyback instead of dividends has almost only advantages. It's more liquid, more tax efficient. > it's mu
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by Galanwe 4y ago
> The burden of proof is on the person claiming no form of value investing will have passed a backtest over the last decade Says who? In my book the burden of proof is on the argument being the less in line with general consensus. Value
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> There are many value signals that can be used. Some of which print money Please share portfolio weights of such a signal, so that I can check the value exposure and adjusted returns.
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by Galanwe 4y ago
> if you have the financials of all companies, and apply certain variations of the cigar-butt strategy, you get out ahead > This not only makes sense logically but also works in backtesting. No, it does not work at all in backtest
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by Galanwe 4y ago
> Maybe they analyzed the middle school report cards of executives and majority shareholders, and tied that to value over time in a way that the S&P 500 did. You are talking about ad-hoc signals here. Of course there are a lot of the
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by Galanwe 4y ago
There's a gazillion market data vendors out there. Quandl and Tiingo are often used for personal/retail algorithmic day traders.
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> The vast majority of the money in the stock market is not from individual investors, but from hedge funds, large asset management companies, etc. That is outrageously wrong information. Half the ownership of the US stock market is from
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by Galanwe 4y ago
That makes no sense. The last 10 to 20 years have seen a bullish round of momentum stocks negatively correlated to value loaded stocks. Value has consistently lost money in the last decade except for short times during momentum crashes in 2
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by Galanwe 4y ago
> Most HR people prefer the 5-page, write-down-everything-you-have-done resume A company where resumes are pre screened by HR is anyway a no-go. From my experience this has pretty much disappeared in 2023.
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by Galanwe 4y ago
> The vast majority of CS research papers are about programming. Hum, allow me to disagree strongly. Maybe the vast majority of those you read, but not overall . My experience is that most research papers look like math, or linguistic
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by Galanwe 4y ago
Indeed, but I was really over with the process of maintaining a Windows partition with a 10 years old version of the Kindle App, with updates disabled, for the sole purpose of manually downloading Kindle books for conversion to epub for tra
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by Galanwe 4y ago
> the modern practice of never using new or delete at all in C++ code What? How do you (de)allocate memory without new and delete? If the answer is "smart pointers" then why bother use C++ in the first place, just use Go or som
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by Galanwe 4y ago
I used the Remarkable 1 for many years, until recently I got bored of hum converting hum my kindle library to epub to read on the remarkable. I switched to an Onyx Boox Tab X (effectively an android tablet with eink screen) and wouldn&#
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by Galanwe 4y ago
I don't know for Stripe specifically, but I have been partner at some companies and can share some reasons from my experience: - There are often limitations to who you can sell to, often in the form of requiring board approval before a
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by Galanwe 4y ago
I found PyO3 to be a bit weird to use. There's plenty of documentation, but it's kind of vague on the general basic concepts, which makes the library hard to understand (even though I have a background in writing CPython extension
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by Galanwe 4y ago
> I don't know if it's true > that does not seem unreasonable. My point is that what seems reasonable to someone that doesn't know anything about the subject means nothing, and could even end up being somewhat offensive
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by Galanwe 4y ago
In my surroundings I would say roughly 90% of people reciting al fatiha do so based on sounds learnt by heart, they would hardly be able to explain the meaning of these individual sounds.
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by Galanwe 4y ago
I would be careful linking "Muslims" and "Arabic readers/speakers". I know Muslims who would be challenged to speak more than 3 words of Arabic, as well as Arabic speakers who are Christians or atheists.
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by Galanwe 4y ago
> My first experience with games like this (though I didn’t know at the time), was in middle school with games like zDoom on my calculator. zDoom Sharing experiences. My first encounter and fascination for these kind of perpective effect
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by Galanwe 4y ago
The cleanest way in your use case would be to store keys in an LDAP server instead of local users' authorized_keys You can plug any of your server to this LDAP and enjoy the same users and keys everywhere.
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by Galanwe 4y ago
But we're not talking about the same thing here. I do also work 99% in the terminal, and SSH is perfectly okay. But my window manager is running locally. In a thin client/remote desktop setup the WM is running remotely. From my ex
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by Galanwe 4y ago
How good is it when working from outside the office, on a rate from "painful" to "unusable"?
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> Google has an internal-only virtual desktop tool for thin clients called "CloudTop" that it would like employees to transition to This is the end. All thin client/remote desktop solutions that I have used are laggy enoug
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by Galanwe 4y ago
> Not really appropriate to compare a market neutral product's Sharpe with the S&P Why? I tend to find it okay to compare Sharpes so long that the returns exhibit a somewhat close distribution. I would expect both the S&P an
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by Galanwe 4y ago
> It rather sounds to me like the author was listening at the Ethernet port that the TV was plugged in Well it's a bit of a mystery to me as well. The thing is multicast is not anycast, you will not receive multicast traffic unless
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by Galanwe 4y ago
To be fair, there really is nothing exceptional in this particular sentence. It's basically just a textual explanation of Markowitz optimization, known since the 50s. To me it's as interesting as a trader telling you his secret is
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It was a good discussion, and I really enjoyed the capability to actually discuss about solutions with you instead of the usual "meh crypto scam". Still we are getting a bit too deep for regular HN comments, and I somehow feel lik
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by Galanwe 4y ago
> NFT's are not legally binding contracts > NFT's don't prevent fraud, or theft etc - so you still need experts to authenticate the art if you wish to do a transaction. Right but certificates of authenticity do not prev

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