earl

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by earl 18y ago
Well, the problem is GE turned themselves into a hedge fund that happens to manufacture some real goods. They also have a history of lying to the street -- I don't remember the date, but they went from Jeffrey Immelt proclaiming they were
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by earl 18y ago
Hmm... when I read stuff like this, I never can tell if these are good ideas / lessons or not. There is such an immense survivorship bias -- only successful people write this stuff, we never hear from the unsuccessful people that did the e
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by earl 18y ago
Actually, it's easy: time. Just put in the hours. If you want specific books, you need to say what your current level is, which you kind of explained, but much more importantly, what exactly you want to do. While most math is useful, diff
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by earl 18y ago
People on craigslist are stupid. Dog bites man.
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by earl 18y ago
Google is clearly getting ready for much lower stock price.
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by earl 18y ago
That's both right and wrong. While making yourself valuable to your company is probably a good idea, you have to be working for an employer smart enough to realize it. Which is, in my experience, not most large employers. In the layoffs I
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by earl 18y ago
Working link: http://www.scribd.com/full/10601416?access_key=key-mf4icwvtd...
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by earl 18y ago
factors are nothing but enums and are used to shrink data and speed processing. Plus that matches what you typically want to happen in regressions: strings turn into (n-1) indicator variables. Otherwise, what is the meaning of using a str
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by earl 18y ago
The power of R (speaking as a very heavy user who has deployed it in multiple production environments and been using it for 5 years) is that it makes it very fast, easy, and natural to do statistics. It also has the nicest data structure I