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by dia80 12y ago
Space doesn't preclude customer development. E.g Virgin Galatic pre-selling rides
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by dia80 12y ago
The data mining bias / model risk here is huge. Let's see how he gets on truly out of sample.
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by dia80 12y ago
There aren't any of those. That's pretty much the point of the EU.
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by dia80 12y ago
not somewhere someone in internet comments told you to put it
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by dia80 12y ago
I don't have a TV and I've not had a letter for years. It's hillariuos when people from call centres in India call to sell TV related services. Their script clearly doesn't have that contingency catered for.
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by dia80 12y ago
1. The purpose of higher priced classes is to give people who are willing to pay more the opportunity to do so.
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by dia80 12y ago
You mean managing $10+ billion of their own money?
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by dia80 12y ago
It seems the rational approach when the cost of "shooting" is of the same order of magnitude as attempting to conduct market research. Also to take an example from the article how would one accurately assess demand for a 10 langua
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by dia80 12y ago
One of the related articles at the bottom references the paper "Transcranial stimulation of the developing brain: a plea for extreme caution" [1] I would be quite interested in give tDcs a go but the tail risk of making some perma
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by dia80 12y ago
I know how this will turn out but my intuition is screaming otherwise.
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by dia80 12y ago
"It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech." -- Mark Twain
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by dia80 12y ago
Thank you Meteor team - you have done fantastic work, what an achievement. I've had a blast building my meteor hobby site [1] [1] http://quantpapers.com
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by dia80 12y ago
Point is they are plentiful - I can hail a cab in minutes but if they become rare I could wait 30 minutes for the 'special' cab to show up.
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by dia80 12y ago
I have a spinal cord injury (snowboarding) and use a wheelchair as a result of having no sensation/movement below my chest. One of the most annoying consequences is being unable to move around London quickly. The tube is inaccessible,
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by dia80 12y ago
I prefer to state this principle as "what you pay for is usually an upper bound for what you will get".
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by dia80 12y ago
Articles claims 20k litres per day from 1km sq. solar farm maybe possible in the future. At current (retail) prices that's about 10,000GBP per day or 3.5M GBP per year. Doesn't sound like a lot to run a 1km sq. facility...
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by dia80 12y ago
The SWIG bindings for QuantLib are quite good, no?
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by dia80 13y ago
My questions: 1) How much did it cost to develop? 2) How big is the potential market? 3) How much money will it save society overall for each person cured?
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by dia80 13y ago
Sorry, that explains it... thought this was your marketing site.
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by dia80 13y ago
History says if you send any bitcoins to derivabit you will duly be relieved of them by some hacker.
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by dia80 13y ago
Can't help feeling the site is a bit more about the authors than helping the customer
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by dia80 13y ago
Hi all, thanks for taking the time to look would be interested your thoughts!
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Show HN: weekend project – Quant finance academic paper aggregator(quantpapers.com)
1 points by dia80 13y ago|1 comments
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by dia80 13y ago
Since bitcoin is very new it is genuinely hard to tell if it will be eventually seen as brilliant innovation that was destined to be successful or get compared to the Dutch tulip bubble etc. You raise valid concerns but there are counter ar
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by dia80 13y ago
This is only happening through the looking glass of 0.5% rates - 3% on property seems attractive. If the economy ever re-inflates and rates go up a couple of points all this building wont seem so attractive anymore...
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by dia80 13y ago
118M USD and no transaction fee paid! Is this likely Satoshi moving his coins now he has been identified? I really hope he is ok and being out does not lead to any harm or distress for the man.
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by dia80 13y ago
IPython + Pandas[0] + (sklearn/cvxopt/etc.) are an amazing combination and as far as I can see gaining share. I would love to work in Haskell but I'm always scared the library support / interactivity won't be there.
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by dia80 13y ago
There can be no options since volatility is impossibly high.. lets take an example. You buy an $850 put with the spot price at $850 and it expiries in 6 months. 90 day realized volatility has been 130% annualized so the black-scholes formul
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by dia80 13y ago
I've had a shocking experience of this product (abysmal performance, memory leaks and poor support). It's basically a poorly wrapped version of pyxll[1] which I would recommend instead. It's not production software. [1] http
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by dia80 13y ago
> US corporate law makes it hard to really know who owns or benefits from Lodsys' lawsuits As the director of a UK company every time I here this I am simply flabbergasted. In the UK all limited companies/partnerships accounts

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