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by dsacco 9y ago
For greater context, the reason why I’m saying your Privacy Policy needs to be revised for precision is because: 1. I have experience acquiring data for the financial industry, and your privacy policy looks like the kind used to discreetly
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by dsacco 9y ago
You should resolve the discrepancy between this comment and your Privacy Policy. A message board comment is not legally binding, and what I linked to has substantial wiggle room in interpretation.
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by dsacco 9y ago
The silence is deafening. I’ll answer for Patrick; here is ProfitWell’s privacy policy: https://www.profitwell.com/privacy-policy The short answer to your question is, “Yes.” The long answer is: > INFORMATION SHARING 1.
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by dsacco 9y ago
Thanks for the recommendation on Neveu, I’m going to check it out. If I recall correctly Chung mentioned it in his book as well.
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by dsacco 9y ago
Did they really? It's incredible how wasteful some organizations can be in pursuit of a misguided sense of "fairness."
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by dsacco 9y ago
Oh I follow. No, I meant I like using git for version control.
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by dsacco 9y ago
The way your comment is written, I thought someone literally had their sandwich angrily thrown across the room when Knight collapsed.
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by dsacco 9y ago
To play devil’s advocate: if your faith in your government is such that you’d like to allocate your wealth in another country, you may also be motivated to hide that wealth for reasons that have nothing to do with corruption. There can be r
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by dsacco 9y ago
What do you suggest? What features would you use to give priority to a trade?
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by dsacco 9y ago
> I assume you don't just means using Github for version control of scientific papers, because that sounds pretty pointless to me. Why? I recently wrote a paper on GitHub. I loved it.
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by dsacco 9y ago
> (Meaning, I'd be willing to lose my job if my employer uses Monocypher on my watch, and data gets leaked because of that choice.) Would you be willing to be personally liable for that data leak? (Put aside the philosophical ques
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by dsacco 9y ago
That doesn't mean sorting by IQ is ignorant. It means that you shouldn't rely on it entirely. Hypothetically speaking, unless there is literature indicating that a population of high IQ individuals is more highly correlated with
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by dsacco 9y ago
That's a common lay criticism of IQ tests, but it's not at all common among clinical practitioners or psychologists. It's also completely at odds with the outstanding literature on the subject[1]. There is broad clinical an
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by dsacco 9y ago
> Yes, but he's profoundly mentally ill. He (seemingly) has, at least, borderline personality disorder and possibly NPD. Please don't make armchair diagnoses of people like this. I think you need to seriously reconsider how a
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by dsacco 9y ago
What does “most explicit ways” mean? Do you mean in the most straightforward language possible, with as much jargon as possible removed? Do you mean extremely patient exposition? Do you mean a first principles approach that builds advanced
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by dsacco 9y ago
This might sound callous, but most of us are not going to master advanced mathematics or theoretical computer science. If you want to self-study, all the material you could ever hope to need is available in a mulitude of books targeted to v
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by dsacco 9y ago
Concrete Mathematics is solidly an undergraduate text. Much of the material in it would already be taught well before graduate school. The preface actually states the book takes comes course material taught to graduates and junior/se
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by dsacco 9y ago
> I think the only thing remaining is large-enough quantum computers. That’s a very, very big “only” :). In any case, there are several compelling computational problems which are (as of current research) post-quantum resistant. They’r
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by dsacco 9y ago
This might clarify the title for you: https://www.troyhunt.com/we-take-security-seriously-otherwis... The title is intended to be a play on the most common response companies make when they experience a serious security fai
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by dsacco 9y ago
So here's a fun note - as it turns out, the Panera Bread Director of Information Security mentioned in that email exchange worked at Equifax from 2009 to 2013. There's a comment mentioning it on that page, but you can find it just
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by dsacco 9y ago
Here is the study in question[1] and the money quote from the article's description: > In a recent Stanford study, participants were presented with brief passages about crime in a hypothetical city named Addison. For half of the pa
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by dsacco 9y ago
It looks like a lot of commenters here are talking about the public opinion of GMOs and whether or not it's justified. As a graduate student, I'd like to comment on the author of this article instead of GMOs, since I find his stor
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by dsacco 9y ago
Karpathy got into the top 20 most upvoted domain submissions? I don't even remember that many.
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by dsacco 9y ago
To be fair, that's really only surprising to people who believe the strong EMH proposition is true. EMH is demonstrably false if you casually look at the returns of various funds over timespans measured in decades. The only way you can
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by dsacco 9y ago
> Around 2008, I read some public filings by banks. I made only two back-of-the-napkin adjustments: 1) I combined off-balance sheet assets and liabilities into the balance sheet, and 2) I changed the expected % losses to approximately t
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by dsacco 9y ago
Yes, that's mostly correct. But I'm not sure what your question is. It's not enough to have the data, you also have to have reasonable confidence in how the price will change once the information does impact the market. The
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by dsacco 9y ago
Sure. 1. I'm friends with multiple people who used to work at Renaissance, and I've directly spoken with folks who are currently there (among other, similar firms). 2. I've read the research published by professors and post-d
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by dsacco 9y ago
The price of a security is, formally speaking, a (weighted) sum of many disparate data points related to the security. The more data is available about the security, the more efficiently it's priced. Individuals do not need to explicit
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by dsacco 9y ago
It's not a contradiction. A better, more formal definition of "public" would be, "information which is sufficiently accessible that its price impact has diffused through the market." In the context of capital market
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by dsacco 9y ago
Did you keep up with that project or move on to something else? It's humorous to me that most people who end up selling data to hedge funds more or less "fall" into that industry by accident. Your story is exactly how it typi

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