Majromax

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by Majromax 7y ago
> Update: Added a Monte Carlo mode which lets you play with data that is randomly generated from the daily returns of the S&P500. The probability of a daily return being picked is the same probability/frequency that it occurred
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> If uniformally randomly distributed It's certainly not uniformly distributed. Testing is not random. Typical test guidelines are to test when some combination of the following are present: * Flu-like symptoms, after ruling out a
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> honest question: what is the death rate for an average person in their 80s? That's a standard actuarial problem, answered with life tables ( https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr61/nvsr61_03.pd
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It's not obvious that those applications are using the data from DWD. It's possible that they're using (for example) global forecasts from the ECMWF (Euopean Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts), or even global forecas
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> I can practically just smell the inflation. Then the Fed isn't out of ammunition . The purpose of Fed easing would be precisely to generate/maintain target levels of inflation. The idea that the "Fed is out of ammuniti
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Given buy/sell spreads, you can lose arbitrary amounts of money simply by buying and selling the same stock hundreds of times.
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> which offers the key advantages of both HDF5 and Zarr, such as chunked dense arrays, numerous compression filters and native cloud support. Taking a look at the compression filters, it seems that they are mostly suited for byte-orient
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While amusing as hell, the answer to the question posed by that XKCD is 'yes'. It's trivial to give away arbitrage opportunities, so the average expected loss – especially net of transaction fees – can be substantial.
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> When people who have no authority over the participants, I don't think it's exactly a matter of authority. A university wouldn't care about someone merely being a troll in Usenet; they'd have to be breaking a law o
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In an open-plan office, "turning their chair around to chat" involves everyone in the vicinity who overhears the conversation, and "turning around" is only possible for the single-digit number of next-seat neighbours. Co
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> 4x in space, though, somehow defies the rule that adding 'in space' to anything makes it better. A 4x game on land automatically has to represent terrain. That immediately brings our intuitive associations to the fore: mount
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> Fry’s has adamantly denied the rumors, saying the shelves are empty because it has shifted to a consignment model, meaning that suppliers get paid for goods only after a store has sold them. ... so it's in trouble, because it is n
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Seeing it listed like that, it's easy to spot where it appears in Boeing's current financial statements ( https://investors.boeing.com/investors/financial-reports/def... ). From 2019Q3-10Q, the 787 '
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> Why has the US given up on deportation? Is it really deemed to be cheaper to just endlessly imprison people? To be fair here, those who support the detention regime are also generally in favour of deportation. However, current US laws
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> It could very well be that the other person values the coffee a lot more than I do, but because I have so much more disposable income than they do I am willing to pay more for it. In doing this (for any resolution of the question),
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From the resolution: > So, we came up with a compromise. They would reset my password, log in to my account, fiddle around with it, and then call me with the new password. And so they did. I'm not sure that the staff did in fact hav
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by Majromax 7y ago
> Why this Hanukkah photo is better than others, I don't know, but Shutterstock is featuring it right now so I guess it sells well and the colors and tones capture a popular trend: It perfectly captures an advertisement aesthetic. W
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> Example abridged: a draw from N(phi,1) for unknown phi is 1. Bayesian reasoning with a uniform prior gives an 86% posterior probability that phi > 0 I'm not sure I see the problem here? If it's counterintuitive, it'
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> The fact that Intel sells inferior product at higher price means that AMD has supply bottleneck. Only if Intel is also _perceived_ as the inferior product. Remember that the value to the customer goes beyond raw benchmarking specs; it
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> they're taking any possible device that connected to the VPN including routers, laptops, iphones, tablets, connected hard drives, etc. Mind you, that's just sensible evidence-gathering. If law enforcement thinks that the hom
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> Edit: The question really should be why was that segment on fire for the previous years. BLS chart for a longer time scale: Wouldn't the leading order effect be the time-lag of the increase in employment for 25-54yo women? In the
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As of this writing, that list contains about 270 items over about 35 years (from the first closure). The "Killed by Google" list contains 191 over 13 years.
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> You must be getting the absolute worse brand of LED lamp to have PWM flicker or using a crap dimer Related: is there any good source of reviews for LED bulbs that go into flicker (I seem to notice 120Hz flicker) and CRI? My local hard
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> The idle cash that corporations have aren't generating jobs. But that contradicts the claimed raison d'être for the 2018 tax cut: that corporate direct investment was being restrained by corporate income taxes. A call to lowe
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This is included in what you write, but it should be noted for emphasis that Bill 101 prevents Anglophone immigrants from receiving (public) education in English. That is, a family that moves from Ontario to Québec can receive English-la
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> point source capturing co2 from burning fossil fuels and then turning it into more liquid fuels that you then burn again is madness. you get that right? Only if you equally value energy at the time of burning and the time of conversion
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> I just can't understand why people ship things that fail into in potentially dangerous states on some known non-trivial fraction of inputs Because that kind of safety-conscious culture needs to be deliberately enforced, from the t
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I don't see how that follows? A thief might be willing to break a conventional door lock if it gains them access to high-value, fenceable possessions. In this hypothetical, the hostile actor isn't interested in the smart speaker
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> Any account that doesn't complete it obviously isn't really a real account. Without very careful system design, that itself could be used to corrupt data. Suppose a thousand obviously fake accounts are made and use the phrase
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> If the enemy is the developer then you've already lost. It's not that the developer is the enemy. Pretend I create a website called "Democratic Underground: how to foster democracy under a repressive regime." I&#x2

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