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by arcanus 9y ago
Not a lawyer, and the Wikipedia was hard to follow. What do you think the implications of this in writing would be?
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by arcanus 9y ago
I'm not sure I agree. I think that this has consolidated the IPO market to only a few major banks that are capable of acting as underwriters. Empirically, the number of IPOs in the USA has dropped, and the size has increased. So the da
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by arcanus 9y ago
Good point. The problem isn't doing nothing, it is that many are insecure not having a 'story'. We as a society need to get past work as a justification for our existence. I say this as a complete hypocrite, who finds tremend
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How America’s two tech hubs are converging(economist.com)
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by arcanus 9y ago
Except that not all problems in computation are GEMMs. CNNs in Machine learning certainly are, but many 'real' systems cannot be posted in such a manner. In supercomputing this is the problem with using high performance linpack fo
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by arcanus 9y ago
Good point. For the first paper, I bet that group would have put me in a top-5 list, and they certainly would have put my group (or someone from it) in the first place. But that slightly anonymous element helps, because typically you aren&#
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by arcanus 9y ago
Two sigma starts total comp for a recent PhD around 250k.
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by arcanus 9y ago
> A little message to the intelligent engineers, scientists, mathematicians out there: don't be taken in by the propaganda of the finance industry. ^ This. I was greatly disillusioned. When looking for positions after PhD, recruiter
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by arcanus 9y ago
I'm not a fan of returning to this form of communication. In a recent review, which was single-blind, I had a paper from a group I know well and the principle author was a heavy-weight in my field, and certainly will review proposals I
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by arcanus 9y ago
No, he is not that fast. I broke a five minute mile comfortably in High school, and no one would have considered me for a scholarship. Most of the fast guys were deep into the low fours, at least in Texas. Not taking away from the accomplis
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by arcanus 9y ago
On HN it might be a sizable percentage.
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by arcanus 9y ago
And it is arguably even more pervasive in the global HPC leader, the department of energy.
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by arcanus 9y ago
> representatives who voted in favor of finance often received $200,000-$300,000 from that sector, which raised the odds of switching by 25-40 percent. Quite cheap, given the magnitude of the results.
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by arcanus 9y ago
> a four year PhD Those exist? Be careful, very few doctorates are short and well-scoped. Source: three letter, several of my friends were 7+, masters or not.
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by arcanus 9y ago
> Apple will continue to take over companies that help it control its supply change, which are mostly companies you haven't heard of This. Was surprised to not see any hardware manufacturers on this list.
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by arcanus 9y ago
huh, why not? "If you can't beat 'em, buy 'em!" Only way I can see this getting stopped would be if Musk used his poison pill: threatening to leave if they were acquired.
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by arcanus 9y ago
Curious if you considered getting a Masters in data science or a related technical field, when you found that an impediment to your preferred career path.
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by arcanus 9y ago
I was offered a job at virtu, and met people who discussed this in the interview. They had backtested the model but apparently it had a slight bug. After fixing it they claimed to have made much more than the loses.
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by arcanus 9y ago
USC has several well regarded engineering schools, actually.
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by arcanus 9y ago
I largely agree. It lost me greatly when it stated, > Few women in rich countries now need a man’s support to raise a family. (They might want it, but they don’t need it.) I'm a man, and my wife is back to work after giving birth to
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by arcanus 9y ago
Funny enough, I also have had a Q6600 quad, it just turned 9 a week ago. Great chipset. ...And I also just jumped on the Ryzen train. Finally a good time to be a consumer in CPU-land.
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by arcanus 9y ago
I can't help but think of Peter Thiel's very appropriate comments (admittedly targeting GOOG, but still applies) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q26XIKtwXQ As I read it: if AAPL had any idea at all what to
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by arcanus 9y ago
How is this different than China, where the party has retained an iron grip despite a multi-decade boom?
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by arcanus 9y ago
I find HN (and most of modern life in general) pretty cyberpunk as it is.
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by arcanus 9y ago
> Yes there are a few erudite intellectuals, brilliant greybeards, and SV millionaires knocking about, but there are plenty of scrubs here as well (present company included.) Nor are those categories mutually exclusive...
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by arcanus 9y ago
That is for inference. The neural networks are trained using GPUs.
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by arcanus 9y ago
Great catch, missed that during the article skim. Doesn't this also enable front-running? Regardless, this is useful info for HFT funds, right?
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by arcanus 9y ago
This is a way where Europe is much better than the USA. If I buy something in Europe, the tax is already included: the price listed is the price. Most restaurants don't require massive 20% surcharges in the form of tips. The menu pri
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by arcanus 10y ago
Conversely, when scanning a table of contents, I look at the last author first , because that tells me what group produced the work.
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by arcanus 10y ago
^ This. Peer-review is not a magical panacea that guarantees anything. The way to judge the impact of a scientific paper is through its citation count, perhaps normalized by a typical count for that particular field.

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