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by dkural 9y ago
Yes, including accounts > $1M.
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You are and you can! Mathematicians often do a poor job motivating what they're doing, which creates most of the confusion. There are great examples and intuitive concepts behind most of higher math. Many mid-level mathematicians are e
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by dkural 9y ago
Please also look at genomics/bioinformatics. Lot's of mathematics + software involved.
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by dkural 9y ago
I ran a SAAS company for 8 years, going from zero to double-digit million rev per year. The answer is a clear no. They can PAY YOU to make custom plots/charts/reporting or run queries if they want to understand what it does better
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by dkural 9y ago
People need a variety of goods from society, like security, healthcare, education, a way to settle disputes via law as opposed to might; etc. American inequality is not just about money or shares. Racial segregation is enforced by the uniq
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by dkural 9y ago
Do you have a response to the argument being put forth as opposed to making unsubstantiated ad hominem attacks?
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by dkural 9y ago
Although you're right that if tethers are not backed by anything they'd inflate BTC, keep in mind this is likely an extremely small effect, because a lot of the inbound also occurred throughout time, and at any given time, the va
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by dkural 9y ago
Actually it's a very misleading analogy. In biology, that's precisely what is happening: The "kernel code" i.e. our genome in fact does have all the instructions on how to build a cell, how to build tissues, how everythi
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by dkural 9y ago
Although there is truth in the post, this is not entirely correct. Many chemical and biological processes take place in a much slower timescale than hundreds of thousands per second, many miles per hour etc. These processes include DNA syn
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by dkural 9y ago
Luckily, someone did an experiment similar to this one. They wrote the genome (and ONLY the genome) of a unicellular organism synthetically. Then they've removed the genome of an existing cell of a different species. The've then
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by dkural 9y ago
Columnar data representation can be optimized and designed for a wild range of query and data types that have non-aligned constraints. So yes, you can have 3, or 12 for that matter. I think we'll see more & more purpose-specific d
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by dkural 9y ago
Having spent 7 years getting a PhD (and a year prior working at a top lab), and then at industry; one of the most amusing facts to me is the belief in academia that professors/postdocs have much longer hours and "work harder&quo
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by dkural 9y ago
YES, this 100 times.
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This is by far the strangest presentation I've seen by someone who controls hundreds of billions of assets. It has a surreal sensibility.
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:( Such a huge loss to the world. What a terrible year, to lose such bright and young mathematicians.
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by dkural 9y ago
Ah. "Flexibility." This is a much deeper debate, but through my subjective experience programming for two decades, stand-alone as PhD, and also leading a 200-person engineering team, I thing flexibility is by and large the last t
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by dkural 9y ago
what a refreshing reply - good point & I agree with you. For certain questions, it helps to think in this fashion, and to make non-obvious points that might be lost in details otherwise. I have nothing against formal systems in computin
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by dkural 9y ago
Yes, I know that as a mathematician. Imagine you are a military strategist. And some engineer says, you know what all our tanks, rifles, and missiles have in common? They are all WEAPONS satisfying a few simple formal properties!
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I think it increases the cognitive load. These things already have names. A Monoid is an abstract category that doesn't 1-1 correspond to the particulars of each data structure, increasing overall cognitive load. It's not like I&#
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by dkural 9y ago
It's always amusing to watch programmers learn a tiny piece of mathematics and turn into a totem. All those data structures would work just as fine without a monoid formalization, and one can use all their power with no attention given
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by dkural 9y ago
Disclaimer: I'm a mathematician, well versed in algebraic topology & also have a PhD in biology. This is one of the most disingenuous papers I've read in a while, indeed my first reaction was "wow, what a load of horse sh
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by dkural 9y ago
The NSA disagrees with you. Voting software suppliers and local election officials were targeted, not just DNC emails. https://theintercept.com/2017/06/05/top-secret-nsa-report-de... I do agree with you that
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by dkural 9y ago
They did hack the voting machines. It doesn't say the hack successfully changed the outcome. What do you disagree with?
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by dkural 9y ago
For investment terms, I've come to believe every term matters quite a bit. There is a good chance you'll eventually have a down round, or IPO under your last rounds price; when all these terms will catch up with you. Time kills a
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by dkural 9y ago
Kickstarter outcompetes other competitors and individuals trying to raise their own money due to network effect and native distribution you get for your project.
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by dkural 9y ago
German culture was going strong until the purges under Fascism began - in philosophy, art, mathematics, physics & other sciences. One of the shocking aspects of the rising of Fascism was that it happened in an intellectually fertile en
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by dkural 9y ago
Most academic CS literature is complete BS. The vast majority of papers fit into a simple formula of "We apply method X to problem Y, and outperform other approaches using approaches similar to method X". Meanwhile, no one uses m
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It's always the press claiming that valuation for the whole is equal to the latest preferred share price. Companies merely say, we issued a new class of shares and raised $ at price X. Company total value = sum of each class of stoc
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As Assange has stated repeatedly, he sees no difference between mainstream party politicians: Obama has continued NSA spying and indiscriminate drone bombings. He sees Trump as a genuine outsider to the dominant Washington polity and an alt

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