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by blahblah3 11y ago
It depends on the real interest rate. Suppose you buy a long term bond yielding 5%, inflation was 2%. Now rates of bonds w/ comparable maturity and credit go up to 7% and inflation goes up to 4%. Your bond is going to be worth a lot le
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by blahblah3 11y ago
inverting a binary tree is a pretty basic question though, if you understand recursion. i can understand why google would ask simple algo questions
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by blahblah3 11y ago
I remember the "concept" part of my high school calculus class. The teacher had us recite out loud the epsilon-delta definition of continuity until everybody memorized it so they could regurgitate it on the test. I always wondered
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by blahblah3 11y ago
Of course your boss and customers only care about the output. But if you need to make sure your output is correct or want to make it easier to add new things, a good design is crucial
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by blahblah3 11y ago
This puzzle you can get without being "clever" by just following the logic: Suppose Alice got Heads. Say she guesses Heads. Then when Bob gets Heads they win. When Bob gets Tails Alice is wrong so Bob needs to guess Heads when he
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by blahblah3 12y ago
if a cure for aging was discovered, how would we deal with the population getting too large? perhaps mandating that people who take the drug can't have children?
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by blahblah3 12y ago
New Haven
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by blahblah3 12y ago
he obviously wouldn't put it all into spy, you can buy a diversified portfolio of stocks that basically replicates the s&p 500. http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/Trader.aspx?id=DailyMarketSummar... (74 billion dollars tr
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E.t jaynes: confidence intervals [pdf](bayes.wustl.edu)
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by blahblah3 12y ago
haha yes, $76 billion. also note that if bill gates had simply put all his money in an sp500 index fund last year he would have earned %13.69, or $10.8 billion
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by blahblah3 12y ago
a $3 billion dollar return on $76 is not that impressive, this is about a 3.9% return. to put this in perspective, in January 2014 30 year treasuries were yielding 3.92% (although they have come down quite a bit since then).
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by blahblah3 12y ago
hey murbard is the answer to this 1-goldenratio? (.618...) to get this I computed the function f(x,y) which is my expected value if I reroll if roll <= x and my opponent re-rerolls if roll <= y. let p be the optimal value. by symmetry