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by conformist 6y ago
Yes, this. The small subsets and super high Sharpe ratios look suspicious. Further red flags in this particular case: - Completely unclear what kind of data they're using. Are they assuming they can buy and sell one individual contract
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by conformist 6y ago
This seems to be good advice for anyone with not-top-quartile luck, not only bad luck.
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by conformist 6y ago
It seems to me that the gist of the article is to question whether mental models can be effectively transferred verbally, rather than their existence? I agree with you, sometimes verbally conveyed theory is quite useful and can speed up bui
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by conformist 6y ago
It's nice that the article controls for many reasonable variables. Of course, there could be other confounding factors (like the employer's trust, perhaps location, etc.), but those may be hard to quantify. I think, it's in
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by conformist 6y ago
If I remember correctly, Deming was a key inspiration for Charles Koch's (of Koch industry fame/notoriety) managerial strategy. See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Science_of_Success
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by conformist 6y ago
Thanks, I wasn't aware of this and it seems very useful! Good to know a tighter bound than Chabyshev's inequality (assuming unimodality).
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by conformist 6y ago
Nice analogy. Seems like politically it's hard to agree on how to compare deaths to other adverse consequences? I suspect some political leaders are just focusing on deaths as the quanitity that's easiest to measure, whereas othe
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by conformist 6y ago
He also publicly claimed that index funds are a bubble fairly recently. ( https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/arti... ) Two thoughts: Maybe bloomberg will interview him whenever th
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by conformist 6y ago
Agreed. Maybe colouring the dots as a function of per capita GDP would've been easy, nice, and more interesting
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by conformist 6y ago
Interesting that Cyprus is in South Asia according to the 2017 map. Clearly, the hand-painted clusters are not super insightful or thoughtful.
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by conformist 7y ago
Atm it only takes a straight line through a couple of points to predict things for most countries, so I'd say yes. The interesting question is whether they could help to implement useful political interventions based on which parameter
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by conformist 7y ago
Agreed. That is an important point. Let epidemiologist do the modelling, and use some back-of-the-envelope calculations to convince yourself of the orders of magnitude. It's super annoying that everyone who knows what a jupyter notebo
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by conformist 7y ago
Make sure to read the "Criticism" section of the article before you read any other parts. This test is bad, and there are other tests that are better. I'm surprised by how frequently I encounter people who are familiar with
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How does a car company make a ventilator?(wired.co.uk)
2 points by conformist 7y ago|0 comments
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by conformist 7y ago
*ICL study, there's a bit of friendly rivalry between ICL and UCL ;) Otherwise, great comment!
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by conformist 7y ago
That's a nice summary! As far as I remember, a periodic domain is fine for one version of the Millennium problem.
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by conformist 7y ago
Also by David Hu: The universal law of mammalian urination time: https://www.pnas.org/content/111/33/11932.short
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by conformist 7y ago
From the group of David Hu, who also brought us "cubic wombat poo". See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20975633
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by conformist 7y ago
I'm sympathetic to the argument for banning politics outright. However, this would imply making sure that all politics is banned in practice, and not that the platform has the right to selectively ban politics. I'm not convinced t
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Law of large populations and the 2016 presidential election [pdf](pdfs.semanticscholar.org)
1 points by conformist 7y ago|0 comments
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by conformist 7y ago
There's an additional difficulty that maybe could be stressed more: Knowing the computational complexity given the representation of a function as an algorithm is also not trivial. A low Kolmogorov complexity can still lead to a high r
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by conformist 7y ago
David Hu (last author) is famous in the fluid dynamics community. See also https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/confessions-...