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by cepth 7y ago
Incredibly, the Sony WH-1000XM3 (the 3 in XM3 is because this is the 3rd generation of the product) at this point still doesn’t have it. Similar price range, and maybe the closest direct competitor to the QC35/700 series in terms of au
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by cepth 7y ago
Colab is effectively JupyterLab/JupyterHub with Google's own add-ins (like integration with Google Drive). JupyterHub is a huge PITA to manage, and Colab also offers a degree of free compute and limited access to a dated, but stil
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by cepth 7y ago
I can't speak to Chess Assistant, but as a longtime Chessbase owner/user, it lets you: * Search any database (proprietary or freely downloaded) for games matching positions (partial position matches too) * Quiz yourself on opening
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by cepth 7y ago
The point about survivorship bias is a fair one. But, if a given fund (Medallion in this case) is able to thrive/survive during the 1998 Russian financial crisis (which felled LTCM), the 2000-2004 tech bubble bursting, the 2007 quant q
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by cepth 7y ago
In the book (“The Man Who Solved the Markets”), the author actually provides the Sharpe ratios for their flagship fund (“Medallion”). Medallion’s Sharpe Ratio has almost never been below 2.0, and has been as high as 7.0 (!!!) in some years.
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by cepth 7y ago
Yeah, seems like you're correct here. I went back and re-read the pre-print here ( https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~noamb/papers/19-Science-Superhuman.p... ). On page 2: > To reduce the complexity of forming a strate
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by cepth 7y ago
As an addendum to this very good comment, that Nature article had a couple of big asterisks. * Bet sizes were restricted. E.g. humans and the the bot could only bet fixed bet sizes, like 1/4 pot, 1/2 pot, full pot etc. Creative be
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by cepth 7y ago
A couple of responses here: First, the issue is that he's winning at a rate that is 10+ standard deviations above what the typical winning/profitable player is achieving. These results are accomplished across a significant sample
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by cepth 7y ago
A 30-minute (minimum) time delay on a live stream is usually a legal requirement in most jurisdictions, enforced by the state gaming commission. Most poker rooms also allow you to use your phone, as long are you're not a participant in
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by cepth 7y ago
There’s a grey area between what is (should be?) unacceptable in a professional setting, and what constitutes a crime. Even in particularly egregious cases of sexual misconduct, it’s difficult to think of how many victims chose to go to tri
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by cepth 8y ago
I’ve personally rolled out a Freshworks implementation, and am quite happy with their products. They offer Freshdesk for a customer support portal/ticketing system, and Freshchat for live chat. Total cost is a fraction of what you’d pa
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by cepth 8y ago
I don’t think the parent commenter is far off here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China#Ethnic... . Granted, Han Chinese in the modern sense is a bit of a constructed identity ( https://www.r
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by cepth 8y ago
Condé Nast seems to have figured out a workable majority-subscription revenue model. https://www.wsj.com/articles/conde-nast-to-put-all-titles-be... > “The New Yorker, which introduced a metered paywall in late 2014
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by cepth 8y ago
This is a pretty substantial achievement, if you look at an estimated percentile breakdown: https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/54c1nv/player_rating... . FWIW, I’ve found that on Lichess I’m rated at
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by cepth 8y ago
What part of TSA screening do you object to? The ID check, or the actual screening of bags? It’s true that TSA security has been foiled by various “red team” exercises, sometimes in comical/embarrassing fashion. And, there is probably
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by cepth 8y ago
FYI earlier this month, they actually did announce the results of a 1000 game match: https://www.chess.com/news/view/updated-alphazero-crushes-st... . AlphaZero won 155 games, lost 6, and drew 839 games against Sto
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by cepth 8y ago
The vast majority of "action" available online is "6-max" (6 player) or "full-ring" (9 player). On a PokerStars, WSOP.com, or Party Poker, you're going to find that there are maybe 1/10th or 1/20
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by cepth 8y ago
IMO, at the highest levels of chess, there has always been a focus on "positioning" (positional chess) over material. World Champions like Capablanca, Botvinnik, Karpov, and Kramnik all play/ed in a style that was postionally
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by cepth 8y ago
I think that the endowment effect may be the more relevant behavioral economics concept here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endowment_effect
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by cepth 8y ago
> "When you say "ship at the negotiated rates" that Amazon has access to, it's really hard to interpret that as anything but the amazon warehouse rate." Who negotiates the rates that are available on "Buy Sh
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by cepth 8y ago
> SFP rates are equal to Amazon MF rates, which are better than public rates but certainly aren't Amazon's own rates being passed through. Refer to your original comment: "This is false. You do not get Amazon rates for shi
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by cepth 8y ago
My company easily does 6 figures in shipping spending across UPS and FedEx annually (on non-Amazon shipping). What we're paying for SFP shipping is at worst equal to, and at best 20% below, what our own rate tables quote. YMMV, but giv
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by cepth 8y ago
Seems like this depends on who you ask? ( https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/02/andy-jassys-brief-history-... ) > "It began way back in the 2000 timeframe when the company wanted to launch an e-commerce ser
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by cepth 8y ago
> Their negotiated rates aren't better, and they are actually forcing sellers to buy USPS postage with Amazon's account instead of the sellers. It's true that you're forced to buy with Amazon's account, but this
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by cepth 8y ago
Here's a related development: Amazon has been pushing many of its larger Amazon FBA merchants to use Seller Fulfilled Prime (SFP). Instead of these merchants shipping from their own warehouses to an Amazon fulfillment center (FC), merc
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by cepth 8y ago
Just for the sake of accuracy, most of the Northeast states are net givers in terms of federal taxation. I.e. for every $1 that NY sends to the federal government in federal taxes, it receives something like ~$0.80 in spending: https:&#x2F
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by cepth 8y ago
Cities actually spent quite a bit of money on hiring consultants, site planners, doing impact studies, etc. I don't think it's unreasonable to say mid to high 7 figures. - https://www.consulting.us/news/290&#x2
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by cepth 8y ago
> Additionally the window to compute the total net benefit is not bound to 10 years but for many decades, as long as Amazon is there. For instance over a 24 year window (how long they've been in Seattle) the required net additional
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by cepth 8y ago
Some back of the envelope math. Amazon is receiving $1.525 billion in incentives from NY state and city, conditional on creating 25,000 jobs ( https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/13/nyregion/amazon-long-isla..
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by cepth 8y ago
I was made aware of this posting by Packt on Upwork. It seems that they pay their video course authors $1000 and a 16% royalty for a 3-4 hour video course. This seems to be comically low. Packt seems to have a reputation on HN for being a

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