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by _benedict 12y ago
Trend following futures models typically have a very high variance in returns, so yielding above market returns in 1 year out of 4 is not significant or meaningful.
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by _benedict 12y ago
Something missing from all such libraries that I find a little disappointing, is the ability to compile multiple regular expressions into a single evaluation with a paired action on the result, so that the regexp becomes a general purpose m
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by _benedict 12y ago
You're ignoring heritable wealth. Personally I support a 100% estate tax above some small multiple of the median salary, so that the meritocratic element of society can flourish. This doesn't prevent the parents spending lavishly
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by _benedict 12y ago
1) The constant time claim for deletion is actually completely unrelated to the size of the list. Even if the list grew infinitely (only a fraction of all deletes were realised), the deletion would certainly be constant time since we explic
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by _benedict 12y ago
I'm not sure if you read the article or not, but I try (and perhaps fail) to make clear that this is not so much eventual consistency in the distributed systems sense, since every accessor sees the same data (if not the same structu
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by _benedict 12y ago
Not only has this been addressed in the article, as mentioned by another commenter, but this market place is intended to apply only to Stage I to IIa trials, and currently only non-randomized trials. These concerns, even were they not alrea
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by _benedict 12y ago
It does not state that it makes it worse, it states that it does not improve it. i.e. that there is an approximate equilibrium that is reached regardless of road capacity in an environment where there is more potential traffic capacity fo
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by _benedict 12y ago
Pauseless GC for immutable objects could be achieved easily without any patent encumbrance or OS level support. Given how widespread immutable state is, I do wonder why it's never been attempted.
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by _benedict 12y ago
Also, there is a paucity of information with which to draw conclusions as to the quality of software you are buying into (whether literally or figuratively) in order to make informed decisions, and there are rarely adequate resources assign
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by _benedict 12y ago
The NHS is regularly found to be one of the most efficient health services in the world (not to say it is anything like perfectly efficient, but it is about as efficient as humanity has managed in the healthcare arena to date). The idea it
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by _benedict 12y ago
As a Cassandra Committer, I would really appreciate you updating your ycsb integration so we can corroborate your benchmarks, as I currently doubt their authenticity/honesty. It looks very much like you compared non-durable performance
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by _benedict 12y ago
The most important change for this post was the reduction of overhead for processing each message off the wire, through improved thread scheduling/communication. The changes do not affect CQL, so much as the 'native' protocol
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by _benedict 12y ago
The difference is both Cassandra and Mongo guarantee that the data on disk is never behind by more than the sync interval (i.e. if the disk gets behind, writes block). Couchbase does not do this; it syncs periodically, but if the disk gets