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by dia80 6y ago
I'm sure your comment is written in excellent faith after some reflection. While i am unable to weigh in on the issue at hand I would offer a few cautionary scraps about luminaries of a field being able to accept it's wrong. The
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by dia80 6y ago
I live in South Hampstead about 3-4 miles from dead centre of London. We are very fortunate to have a garden. It is surrounded by many other gardens. Our building was constructed in the 1880s. There are many very old beautiful trees in the
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by dia80 6y ago
As I understood it you would start choosing treatments at random, as one or more treatments started to outperform the others they are chosen with higher frequency. A sort of on-line trial. No AI involved.
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by dia80 6y ago
I had wondered if a bandit algorithm would be an effective approach. Can anyone who knows more about it than me comment?
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by dia80 7y ago
I don't think this is true. I trade cross currency basis and if there was excess demand for offshore USD the "basis" (premium over normal rates to borrow USD in return for lending e.g. EUR ) would be moving dramatically. It c
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by dia80 7y ago
That's unwise, you can call the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) up and ask them how they arrived at their numbers. In the UK you can go on field trips with the Office of National Statistics (ONS) to watch them measure inflation. I
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by dia80 7y ago
I don't think it's that bad in your garden... I ran a foobot at home when we had our son. Air quality in the house was good a mile or two from central london and a few hundred meters from a big road. Looking at the pollution maps
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by dia80 7y ago
The last time I had this feeling was when shorting groupon. The emperor has no clothes, I can't see how UBER ends up being materially different from a donut.
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by dia80 8y ago
There isn't any informational value in constantly predicting crisis, of course you will be correct some of the time.
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by dia80 8y ago
I am always amazed by Americans love of 'period' style architecture in preference to a more modernist style. Especially when I see friends in my age group (30s) pack there homes with dark wooden furniture that looks like it would
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by dia80 9y ago
Limits to arbitrage, same reason GBTC the bitcoin trust trades at 100% premium.
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by dia80 9y ago
It means they will allow their account at the exchange to settle client trades. This will involve them using their existing collateral at the exchange to underwrite the client trades. They will in turn demand collateral from the client but
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by dia80 9y ago
I recall it was Moscow state university they wouldn't admit any, other schools would
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by dia80 9y ago
I recall reading elsewhere it was zero, they simply weren't allowed to admit Jewish students and these problems were just to try and cover up the discrimination.
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by dia80 9y ago
I drive on London every day. Uber drivers are perpetually distracted. Either looking for a pickup or aimlessly meandering waiting for their next job. There are some serious negative externalities, much like the article.
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by dia80 9y ago
A Bayesian mindset. When investigating a signal you have to ask: Is it too good to be true? Does it make economic sense? Then simulate rolling optimisation and trading to see what returns could have been achieved with knowledge only availab
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by dia80 10y ago
If you don't persevere you achieve nothing. That fact alone is often enough to keep me going.
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by dia80 10y ago
Deep torture, anyone? Gradient descent on stimuli to get what you want out of adversaries. Kind of scary
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by dia80 10y ago
This would really help cushion the fiscal fallout from brexit for the rest of the UK.
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by dia80 10y ago
I'm really pleased for this guy and hope he can continue to make progress. Unfortunately the information content of these events is at best modest. After spinal cord injury you can get "spinal shock" which can last for a mont
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by dia80 10y ago
I'm guessing the tremendous amount of smoke and all the obstructions on the roof would have made this impractical. The situation wouldn't have been aided by helicopters falling on to rescuers below.
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by dia80 10y ago
I just don't see the point of all these simple introductions to some ML topic. If you want to do a good job it is hard. If you need a simple introduction and don't just dig in a persevere with harder stuff you probably aren't
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by dia80 10y ago
Thanks for this. If you wanted to get started doing this kind of analysis in python check out the examples for the maturing pyMC3 https://pymc-devs.github.io/pymc3/stochastic_volatility/
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by dia80 10y ago
I think you mean any startup with a limited liability structure!
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by dia80 11y ago
That works until it doesn't, see Japan.
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by dia80 11y ago
This only possible because companies want to be able to fire their employees quickly so that means the employees can leave quickly. I know of one place (in the UK) with a one year notice term. You can't leave quickly so their business
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by dia80 11y ago
Fixed income trading desk, large global hedge fund - London, UK (ONSITE,VISA) Fixed income markets (bonds, futures, interest rate swaps) are going through big changes as electronic trading takes over. We are seeking a "Tech Lead"
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by dia80 11y ago
It's a bit more complex than the Greek's have spent too much money and expecting Germans to bail them out. This situation was an inevitability [1] given the Eurozone's make up and the political classes being in denial has wor
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by dia80 11y ago
London | Large Hedge Fund | ONSITE My 3 person interest rate trading group is seeking a talented developer with MSc or above CS qualification who can help us grow through automating workflow and implementing new trading models. We have prod
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by dia80 11y ago
This kind of concerns me. I have a T4/T5 spinal cord injury from a snowboarding accident 4.5Y ago. I have good hand and arm function but that's it no abdominals etc. I drive myself to work everyday and transfer in and out and fold

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