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New Draft of “Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction, Second Edition”(dropbox.com)
170 points by Gimpei 10y ago|33 comments
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by Gimpei 10y ago
Here's the ungated version: http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~tphilipp/papers/FinTech.pdf
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The FinTech Opportunity(nber.org)
1 points by Gimpei 10y ago|1 comments
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by Gimpei 10y ago
NBER working papers series is great for economics papers. Most go on to be published in top journals.
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Spark 2.0.0 Released(spark.apache.org)
91 points by Gimpei 10y ago|22 comments
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The FCC won't release internal memos about the Time-Warner-Charter merger(gizmodo.com)
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Can Tracking Raise the Test Scores of High-Ability Minority Students?(nber.org)
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Edward: A library for deep generative models and inference(github.com)
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Growth of income and welfare in the U.S, 1979-2011(nber.org)
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Andrej Karpathy forced to take down CS231n videos(twitter.com)
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The Fox News Effect: Media Bias and Voting (2007)(qje.oxfordjournals.org)
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Angel Financing More Helpful Than VC Financing(nber.org)
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Angel investors are good for firm growth and follow up funding(nber.org)
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Is Economics Research Replicable? Sixty Published Papers Say “Usually Not” [pdf](federalreserve.gov)
73 points by Gimpei 11y ago|17 comments
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by Gimpei 11y ago
Crowdpac -- http://crowdpac.com/ -- Menlo Park, CA Data Integration Engineer (python) The data science team applies cutting-edge algorithms to what candidates say, how they vote, and how they network and fundraise to measur
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by Gimpei 12y ago
Isn't the point here that you can do it on huge datasets that don't work nicely with R
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by Gimpei 12y ago
I agree, unless it's something that can't be done well in the current language. Or, if like me, you're an economist and the default language used by academics is horrible, horrible Stata, which needs to be replaced by R.
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by Gimpei 12y ago
The economist article makes it seem like there's a lot of rigorous empirical evidence behind this result, but it is a fundamentally theoretical result. Basically, the authors come up with a toy model that, given a long list of assumpti
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by Gimpei 12y ago
Yeah, this is why wikipedia is not always the most trustworthy source. I definitely studied these types of models in macro classes from Pissarides, one of the pioneers in the job search field. I think he'd be amused to learn that he ha
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by Gimpei 12y ago
Not really... Anticompetitive would be if: 1) The entrenched players were selling at "zero profit" or price equal to marginal cost. (I find this dubious, they are monopolies after all. internet services are a fraction of the US pr
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by Gimpei 12y ago
Agreed. Reporting behavior could be correlated with unobservables that are driving the results. Interesting study but far from conclusive. IMHO correlations like this are useful for driving future, more rigorous research, not for drawing br
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by Gimpei 12y ago
Economist here. You're right that "neoclassical economists" or rather macroeconomists assume self-interested behavior on average rather than at an individual level. Furthermore, most recognize that people do not typically beh
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by Gimpei 12y ago
They make a lot more assumptions than that, neoclassical economists at least. How do you think they manage to aggregate the preferences of millions of people to provide "microfoundations" to their models? See the aggregation probl
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by Gimpei 12y ago
That's a good book, but a bit advanced. A little bit easier is Osborne's Introduction to Game Theory. On the heavier side, Game Theory by Tirole and Fudenberg is used in a lot of graduate economics programs.
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by Gimpei 12y ago
Doesn't sound too palatable to me. All you're doing is taking the cost to the consumer and passing it from payment to ISPs to payment to content providers. Meanwhile you are entrenching the few large content providers that can aff