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by baking 13y ago
All people really want to know is where the name came from. It would actually be kind of absurd to take a working MtG trading site and convert it to bitcoin trading.
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by baking 13y ago
Exactly. It's just a minor effect that Facebook can detect using their massive database and use to convince advertisers to pay a premium for, even though there is no evidence of how good a predictor it is. How many people that have a
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by baking 13y ago
So Saudi Arabia? Edit: Or Europe or the South Pacific depending on which website and where I click.
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by baking 13y ago
It's all upside for CCP.
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by baking 13y ago
Off-hand, I would say you can't use chi-square unless you rolled at least 360 pairs of dice. Chi-square assumes a normal distribution and the rule-of-thumb you need at least ten hits and ten misses before the sample distribution appro
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by baking 13y ago
I remember what software was like before hardware. It sucked!
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by baking 13y ago
The usual way to do this is to take the natural log, so an up 1% day followed by a down 1% day (or vice versa) will always net out to a 0% change.
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by baking 13y ago
Yes, start by writing a confusing question. One that starts talking about average up moves and average down moves and then switches to asking about the standard deviation of moves. Then publish a paper showing that people were confused by
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by baking 13y ago
The worst part about this is that it makes Taleb appear to be a complete idiot. Volatility under the Black-Scholes is the standard deviation of the daily price changes (log adjusted) not the standard deviation of the daily price. When the
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by baking 13y ago
Can someone who understands this please make a graph? Pics or it didn't happen.
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by baking 13y ago
September 2013 - http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/theslowwi... [Can't edit for some reason]
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by baking 13y ago
These are his earlier columns: May 2013 - http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/thesaddes... July 2013 - http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/nestofho
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This World of Ours - James Mickens [pdf](usenix.org)
7 points by baking 13y ago|2 comments
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by baking 13y ago
Wait until 9am or 40 comments, whichever comes first.
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by baking 13y ago
Because I said so, of course.
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by baking 13y ago
1-2-5 should be renamed R3 and every thing above R10 and E12 should just be discarded.
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by baking 13y ago
Thanks. This seems right up my alley for a project I've been thinking about.
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by baking 14y ago
http://timelessname.com/sandbox/matrix_orig.html is the only version that works for me. I don't have time right now to figure out why that is.
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by baking 14y ago
Firefox 19.0 and XP here with cookies and javascript enabled. I can scroll down but it jumps back up to the top and nothing I can think of (holding the scroll bar fixed, etc.) keeps it from bouncing up.