NPMaxwell

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by NPMaxwell 11y ago
Actually, yes. Like a helicopter drop, a minimum wage increase shifts money from those who would save it to those who have the greatest incentive to spend it quickly. As noted in the earlier comments, what I was missing was that a helicop
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by NPMaxwell 11y ago
Is there a reason why a $15/hour minimum wage would not function something like a helicopter money drop ( http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/5937/economics/helicopter-... ) and be helpful in times of low in
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by NPMaxwell 11y ago
What jumps out at me is that, as far as I know, CBT training focuses on having the therapist provide cognitive tools to reduce awful automatic thoughts and emotions. The therapist empowers the client. Some therapists bring from their own
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by NPMaxwell 12y ago
In addition to whatever else (like reading the company site and researching the people I'll be meeting with), I like arriving 20 minutes early and going for a walk.
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by NPMaxwell 12y ago
Yes. This headline is sad. To show that my lifetime earnings are "decided" in the first 10 years of my career, you would have to show a predictive model with an R-squared value of 1. That is not the case. If R-squared were ver
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by NPMaxwell 12y ago
I gather that the idea is that stock prices a manipulated to follow a sawtooth pattern -- plummeting with the big bath of the new CEO and rising during the CEO's tenure. I haven't seen the evidence that this is so, but it would e
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by NPMaxwell 12y ago
Yup. Time to have a think.
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by NPMaxwell 12y ago
If I play one of these games, all I'm doing is slowing down the latency compared to letting the simulator play for me -- and diminishing the quality of the play. For me, that highlights how much harder it is to see fun from the outside
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Microsoft Fights Cloud Gaming Lag with DeLorean(pcmag.com)
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This highlights how staff who handle emails or calls needs to be part of the business plan of a b-to-c startup. Or at least an explanation of why it's OK to NOT handle customer contacts.
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by NPMaxwell 12y ago
You may be right about that. Unless I have flubbed my calculations, if P(estimated chance of rain=.9|rain) = 1.4(P(rain)), then Bayes theorem leaves the updating at average(.5,.9). Also, an interesting reference about selecting priors: see
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by NPMaxwell 12y ago
Neither student was right or wrong. This is a Bayesian problem. Each student had a distribution of priors based on evidence. Each source of evidence had its own level of quality which stipulated the variance of the two sets of priors. T
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by NPMaxwell 13y ago
One guidebook to the archeological site of ancient Troy, starts with, "Having solved the money problem, Heinrich Schliemann turned to archeology." (For a bio, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Schlie
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by NPMaxwell 13y ago
For causation, you need A/B testing -- real A/B testing (randomized controlled experiments). Not everyone understands the need for A/B testing and not everyone understands how to do A/B testing. I recently worked on mode