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I interviewed for a financial analyst role with a film studio (not one of the majors) some five years ago. They had a predictive model for their movies which was built in Excel with VB macros and which had exhausted the dimensional limits o
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Backbone and react.js is indeed an awesome combination for single-page web applications. React makes for an awesome templating layer, and makes the performance of rendering dramatically faster than using more complex Backbone views in the t
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I think it's interesting that people associate programming with magic, but I don't think it's the most enlightening comparison. The actual magic, from my perspective, is social skills and the ability to organize/manipula
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The problem is that because of their obvious bias, we can have no assurance that they are accurately surveying all of the available meta-analyses, and that they are properly representing the information and its level of certainty.
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How does system memory usage stop Lua from addressing memory in its own address space? That doesn't at all fit with my understanding of how virtual memory works in modern operating systems.
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I'll take a shot at your line width question. When you are dragging across the canvas slowly, you get sent an event for every pixel the mouse touches, and your code is drawing a 20px wide line between each new point. If the pixel is do
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There was some discussion on this topic a while back which I remember. For convenience, it is linked here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4380900
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At UC Berkeley one of the classes (EECS150) focused on creating an old-school arcade game in an FPGA using (virtual) logic gates. It is one of the best classes I ever took and really gives you an understanding of how these things were possi
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I am a novice when it comes to biology, but even in my research I had become suspicious about the fact that most probiotics have so few varieties, and that they were predominantly of the "wrong" families as compared with what the
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That translation is pretty terrible. It's not a translation of the musicality and beauty of Shakespeare into modern English, it's a translation of Shakespeare into poorly written literal statements. When foreign translators are do
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It's interesting that there is an apparent discontinuity in views between 9 list items and 10 list items in the last graph.
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Allowing expensing of distributions would actually not equalize the tax treatment. If you could expense distributions it would be more favorable to do dividends than to retain earnings, because retained earnings (in the context of companies
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If there were no tax on capital gains and income, which is the whole point of a consumption tax, businesses would have an incentive to distribute much more of their retained earnings to shareholders. Part of the reason war chests have gotte
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I didn't consider this thought until reading your comment, but this is a potential example of Bastiat's "Seen and Unseen."[1] By re-engineering the roads with bikers in mind, they have created slightly faster roads for c
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Everything that you've written is technically correct. But it seems like in the large majority of situations where people are using/publishing statistics, the expected value is what we care about but we are using frequentist metho
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This article stands in contrast to the thoughts expressed in a recent interview with George Ellis[1]. The question of Bayesian vs. frequentist is fundamentally a philosophical question, and it's often discussed in these terms in the ar
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Unbundling the value of the leg room and the value of the perks would reveal that people pay essentially nothing for those extra perks. It's not like if they had a "leg" package and a "better food, priority boarding, etc
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It is difficult to describe faces because we don't have a familiar vocabulary for them. It's not necessary for us day to day to describe exactly what faces look like. Sure, we have chiseled jaws and high cheekbones, but there isn&
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There are already a large number of bootcamps being formed for data science. For example Zipfian Academy (former Berkeley students), Insight Data Science, Metis (owned by Kaplan), Leada (a startup of former Berkeley students which has our c
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Here it is per capita: https://gist.github.com/BJTerry/d9392dc1d494cad052ef
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It can make sense to invest in hedge funds even if you don't expect your hedge fund portfolio to beat the market on average, if the hedge fund is uncorrelated with market returns. This is a basic result of Modern Portfolio Theory, but
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This is pretty fun, and there is the core of a cool little game here. To offer some constructive criticism: 1. The word list is really bad. Here are some of the words I got: inwrapped (google autocorrects this to "unwrapped" and t
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That's clearly a tale rather than a true event. The guy would have noticed during other extremely short trips that his car wouldn't start afterwards.
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The best NBA team will beat the worst NBA team with extremely high probability. Much higher than the probability that the best MLB team beats the worst MLB team. For example, when the San Antonio Spurs played the New Orleans Pelicans on Mar
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By a Dutch auction, are you referring to a sealed second-bid auction, or are you referring to a second-item auction? Or are you actually referring to a descending price Dutch auction?[1] If you are referring to a sealed second-bid auction,
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The Problem with Prediction Markets(blog.statricks.com)
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You are being insufficiently creative. If there are 10 competitors in your niche (and many will have more like 100), you can do this to five of them at random and google would have no way of determining who the perpetrator was. When you rep
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It's not a question of a false positive rate in this case, because the current false positive rate relies on the current baseline level of malicious actors. If they admit that there are false positives, then that will cause more malici
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1.1PB would cost $56,000 at the cost of Backblaze's latest pod, based on their recently posted pricing.[1] That would be for live storage in physical computers. If they put it on tapes at $0.01/GB, it would only cost $11,000 for t
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I've been using DDG for quite a while now, and I've noticed in the last few weeks or months that their search results have gotten much better. Before I'd have to use !g on most of my queries, but now it's much more of a

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