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   Why Do Americans Stink at Math?(nytimes.com)

   32 points by aet 12y ago|4 comments
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   Criminal Software, Government-Grade Protection(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

   4 points by aet 12y ago|0 comments
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   by aet 12y ago

   I think they actually want MBAs that can make good business decisions.
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   Use of Drones for Killings Risks a War Without End(nytimes.com)

   77 points by aet 12y ago|96 comments
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   by aet 12y ago

   I didn't see any ads
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   by aet 12y ago

   ACC profit Virginia Tech $14,853,103.00 Clemson Univ. $14,688,975.00 North Carolina State $11,609,800.00 Georgia Tech $9,350,858.00 Univ. of North Carolina $7,289,263.00 Univ. of Miami $6,767,811.00 Univ. of Virginia $3,076,978.00 Florida S
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   by aet 12y ago

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
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   Rite of the Sitting Dead: Funeral Poses Mimic Life(nytimes.com)

   7 points by aet 12y ago|0 comments
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   by aet 12y ago

   Intimidated by iPhone?
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    by aet 12y ago

    Were they good to start with?
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    by aet 12y ago

    http://www.math.upenn.edu/~pemantle/papers/snell.pdf
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    by aet 12y ago

    or web apps in general?
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    by aet 12y ago

    Interesting from Wiki: victim was the father of a Federal Judge, J. Michael Luttig. During his appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court, three of the nine justices recused themselves because of their personal ties to Judge Luttig, leaving six just
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    by aet 12y ago

    I guess we should take it for granted that all new phones have a 0.99 probability of looking exactly like the iPhone.
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    by aet 12y ago

    Yes, so $300k puts you in the top 3%, $380k puts you in the top 1% of earners nationwide. The median salary of presidents of private Universities is $400k. If you start at a salary of 150k and get 0.15 raises annually for 5 years, yes your
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    by aet 12y ago

    Why should it? Most software engineers don't have significant equity i.e. equity that creates a cash flow equal to 100% of their salary annually. I only make this comparison since 141k is median at Google and you are saying lots of sof
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    by aet 12y ago

    Mid-career median at Google is $141,000.
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    by aet 12y ago

    My bad
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    by aet 12y ago

    I think the NYT has redone this interactive piece like 50 times now.
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    by aet 12y ago

    No personal experience, but I know East St. Louis is regarded as one of the most dangerous cities in the U.S.
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    How to Have an Honest Data-Driven Debate(blogs.hbr.org)

    1 points by aet 12y ago|0 comments
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    by aet 12y ago

    Maybe want to keep video under "YouTube LLC" in case they ever sell, or taxes?
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    by aet 12y ago

    Interesting. For example, with temporal data, like stock market data, some models might be "elders" in the sense that they are trained on longer spans of data, whereas, other models might be estimated just from the last few weeks.
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    by aet 12y ago

    and, is it?
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    The Effects of Backtest Overfitting on Out-of-Sample Performance [pdf](ams.org)

    11 points by aet 12y ago|0 comments
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    by aet 12y ago

    Investment Science by Luenberger
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    by aet 12y ago

    You are comparing a quick blog post to a monograph.
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    by aet 12y ago

    Do you have any examples? Just curious..
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    by aet 12y ago

    Seems like that stuff should be more OJT rather than taught in school.
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    by aet 12y ago

    The stock become more attractive to hold