absherwin

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by absherwin 14y ago
Try stratified sampling. Removing records without claims only increases the variance of the denominator which is much less variable. You actually can eliminate the majority of the data and find results that are the same to several decimal p
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by absherwin 14y ago
C/C++ shouldn't generally be needed. The computationally intensive part is optimized. What makes a given system slow is either poorly optimized numerical code (less common) or doing a bunch of needless repetitive work because the system doe
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I did a similar analysis several years ago. The two fastest solutions that didn't involve writing lower-level code aren't mentioned: A specialized program targeted at the insurance industry called Emblem and Stata. If I recall, they ran as
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by absherwin 14y ago
The entire YC team can advise ~66 startups and they have ~14 people which suggests a person can advise 4-5 startups at a YC-level. It's not quite equivalent since YC has the benefit of multiple perspectives though at the cost of increased c
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by absherwin 14y ago
If this were a one time game you'd be correct. Assuming, he can quickly filter out a significant portion, it's possible to be very involved and have a significant chance of a large exit. This, of course, assumes that he's good at what he do
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by absherwin 14y ago
Better yet use enumerate to save looking up the character index: for i,char in enumerate(string): print termcolor.colored(char, colors[i%7])
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by absherwin 14y ago
Not quite but closer than I would have suspected: Suicide attempt fatality rate: 9% Everest attempt fatality rate: 2% Sources: Climber fatality from attempts through 2006: http://www.adventurestats.com/tables/EverestAge
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The key risk for Apple is what its future earnings will be. Given that its current earnings dwarf anyone else, one must believe they will be able to be maintained which is equivalent to a bet that the iPhone will continue to be sold in high
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by absherwin 14y ago
That the sum of two Gaussians is a Gaussian an be found in any basic text on statistics. That combining distributions, calculating them in parallel or online is possible isn't new either. The Kalman filter which was published in 1961 is an
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A todo list is one function of email. It's also an information sharing and socialization service. The right solution will contain specialized functions for these various uses. Note that a single email can fall into multiple categories. "Pre
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There's no need to assume that a switch for some Macs will be a switch for all Macs. Multi-architecture binaries were standard for several years during the x86 transition. As they move to an App-Store model, it will be relatively simple to
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by absherwin 14y ago
As long as there are a reasonably small number of variables, this could be done scalably. The coworking spaces seem to relieve the space and furnishing concerns but don't fix the HR and legal paperwork headaches. You mention that by Series
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Why hasn't one of the incubators or a startup solved these problems? Between apartment phase and some reasonable maturity point (20-50 people?), one could have a reasonably large building or set of nearby buildings that's subdivided from co
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What you want to avoid with this sort of AB testing is the same person seeing multiple prices. The easiest, decently close approximation is just to split the page served by geocoded IP. The regions should be split randomly up-front. Also do
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by absherwin 14y ago
I agree that Fizzbuzz can be a more interesting example of how to write code without repetition. While the author suggests that languages such as Haskell provide a unique advantage, the deciding question seems to be the availability of pre-