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Altman Z-Score: What It Is, Formula, How to Interpret Results(investopedia.com)
1 points by ableal 3y ago|1 comments
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by ableal 3y ago
Summary: developed by Edward Altman in 1967, Z-score, a variation of the traditional z-score in statistics, is based on five financial ratios that can be calculated from data found on a company's annual 10-K report. It uses profitabili
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by ableal 3y ago
There is a page with the title used: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/installing-windo... Or close enough: "Installing Windows 11 on devices that don't meet minimum system requirements",
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The Most Useful Statistical Test You Didn't Learn in School(specbranch.com)
1 points by ableal 3y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 3y ago
Hey, can't a blind pig find an acorn? Is it less of an acorn because it was found by a pig? Myself, I appreciate Schopenhauer a lot more, and we know what he thought of Hegel, but I'm not fanatical about it. If a hack hits on a go
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by ableal 3y ago
> Because sufficient amounts of quantity always beats quality Hegel (as echoed by Marx): "merely quantitative differences beyond a certain point pass into qualitative changes" ( https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.
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Poeltl: Everything to know about the NBA word-guessing game(sportskeeda.com)
1 points by ableal 4y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 4y ago
I seem to remember that the 300A overclock was first published by Tom's Hardware - a site started by a German medical doctor, as implausible as that sounds. I was trying to confirm this, but he didn't claim credit for that in this
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by ableal 4y ago
> their quote was around 2.5x the costs of "put another boiler in", such that the payback period would be "literally never". Doesn't that depend on the costs of both energy sources? Last year I made a similar cho
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by ableal 4y ago
For context, the pre-existing larger mechanical calculators such as the 1936 Facit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRGu1OBFPrc I saw one of these still in use before the takeover by electronic calculators in the 1970s. I
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by ableal 4y ago
BP, for one, has been making noises about their fuel being carbon neutral. It's not impossible, e.g. you sell fuel that makes so many tons of CO2, you bury in a hole so many tons of vegetable matter that captured that much CO2. Doesn&#
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by ableal 4y ago
There's also the (fictional) visual attack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLIT_(short_story)
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by ableal 4y ago
Page is working nicely, albeit with " © 1988-2007, 20Q.net Inc.," in the game pages, -2017 in the front page.
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by ableal 4y ago
Worth the read just for the horrible B-17 bit used as opener. Good hook.
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by ableal 4y ago
Thank you. That's a few weeks news in two paragraphs.
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by ableal 4y ago
For scale: EV maker Lucid is worth 24 billion, and Apple recently had twice that in cash reserve. (Looked it up because of an unfounded rumor linking both.)
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by ableal 4y ago
Rumors of the Apple car have died down (I think ...) but they may come back to the transportation market, maybe out of left field. Repurposing the iPod trademark? (E.g. this for the XXI century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by ableal 4y ago
Two ways, dial-up modems at home and wired ethernet at work/school. At home you would use a Mac/PC/etc as a terminal, connected via telephone line to some host like Compuserve ou your workplace computer. This prevented use of
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by ableal 4y ago
> Mercedes joined the sport Re-joined, I think they left in the 50s or 60s after a racing tragedy. Fangio raced for Mercedes, I believe.
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by ableal 4y ago
I seem to remember The Mythical Man-Month making a point about a single architect being more effective.
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by ableal 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt Co-opted first by Alexander, then Caesar. Later Napoleon also dropped by ... Seems to have slipped everybody's mind here, strangely.
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by ableal 4y ago
Funnily enough, I think one the original IBM PC killer apps was exactly that - dBase III https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBase MS Access was the usurper of dBase's crown. And then Excel took over ...
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by ableal 4y ago
I believe that (having headlights on) was locally required before Daytime Running Lights (DRL) became mandatory in the EU some twelve years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daytime_running_lamp
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by ableal 5y ago
The Mongolian Gobi desert seems to top out at 27C - https://www.amicusmongolia.com/climate-average-monthly-tempe... (Low of -33C, harsh)
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by ableal 5y ago
BMW i3 with range extender did that, don't know what kind of engine. Not quite intended as a PHEV, but I suppose it could run just on the ICE like most current PHEVs Toyota's hybrids (Prius, etc.) have used Atkinson cycle ICE, ins
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by ableal 5y ago
Nicely reduced to "All Cretans are liars" in four words ... ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epimenides_paradox )
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by ableal 5y ago
Related, if you're shopping for a sorting algorithm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket_sort
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by ableal 5y ago
More than one Eastern European intellectual survived doing menial work temporarily, e.g. Milan Kundera https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/russ...
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The Tomb and the Telephone Box: Soane's Mausoleum(publicdomainreview.org)
3 points by ableal 5y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 5y ago
https://lithub.com/when-the-beatles-met-their-idol-elvis-pre... (interesting find prompted by other, also interesting, answer)

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