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by echion 8y ago
Fighting stereotypical prejudice with...a stereotype? Dartmouth is around the mean in Asian-American student body according to https://blog.collegevine.com/the-demographics-of-the-ivy-lea... .
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by echion 8y ago
All generalizations are over-generalizations? GP is a fair comment, actually: nobody that knows anything about how risk works wants to see a returns number. If a fund doesn't backtest against IR, or penalize for volatility, it's
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by echion 9y ago
Ditto - plus gets you around to interact with co-workers, which is also a benefit.
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by echion 9y ago
> I can remember the pain and hand fatigue that cursive writing gave me I remember the pain too, having written a lot, and in cursive, in school; I'm not saying it's easier to write a lot , just that I've heard and anecdo
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by echion 9y ago
Which studies? "Fine motor" appears exactly once in the article: > And every time I hear of a young child turned off writing because he lacks the fine motor skills needed to master cursive [...] I see [confirmation bias].
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by echion 9y ago
Seems to ignore the fact that picking up and putting down the writing point is actually harder for small children than just sliding the writing implement along the paper. Also consider the popularity of "Swype"-style keyboards, s
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by echion 9y ago
> There's a well documented reason why there are a lot of single men in Japan. What is that reason? (Serious question)
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by echion 9y ago
What's the name of the laser procedure you had?
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by echion 9y ago
In the US and UK one can get ~80mg (75, 81) OTC, at any drug store / chemist.
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by echion 9y ago
tl;dr: data processing is getting automated. This is just a dramatisation (and a bit of a summary) of normal process automation. Nothing to see here.
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by echion 9y ago
They're unnecessary, but mainly because tractors have equipment that do this anyway. So unless it's needed more frequently than when the tractor's driving around, it's probably not worth the extra cost.
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by echion 9y ago
I think you're agreeing with the post to which you're replying.
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by echion 9y ago
What's on your shortlist of "more mature [with same or more functionality]" ones?
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by echion 9y ago
> I’m kinda bummed out that Python devs decided not to backport Python type hints in Python2.7. Can't comment on the site itself, so: PEP 484 - Type hints ( https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0484/#su
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by echion 9y ago
> personal connection there - a meetup or hackerspace HKGers should check out DimSumLabs ( https://www.meetup.com/dimsumlabs/ ) as a really nice bunch (at least when I was there).
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by echion 9y ago
Looks great -- excited to try it out.
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by echion 9y ago
And the joke is buried at the end!
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by echion 9y ago
> if you can generate alpha on the strange "homomorphically encrypted" data they've got, you can do it in the actual market with transparent data and more control far more profitably. Sure. Now go get "transparent da
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by echion 9y ago
> I'm already doing bank screen scraping for myself Any tools you recommend, or is it all hand-rolled?
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by echion 9y ago
This sounds really interesting -- can you share anything else, or pieces of the pipeline...especially topic modeling?
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by echion 9y ago
This (nbviewer.js)[1] is really amazingly quick and useful as a notebook viewer. 1. https://github.com/kokes/nbviewer.js
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by echion 9y ago
For example: "Trading on Private Information: Evidence from Members of Congress" (2016) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2712297 EDIT: Also "Abnormal Returns From the Common Stock Inv
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by echion 9y ago
The car isn't being opened by B; it's being opened by A, and B is jammed and stored for later use. See other comment about the attacker always being "one [code] ahead" of the legitimate key fob user.
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by echion 9y ago
It's regular expression syntax for, roughly, "substitute 'mary' for ' total'", which transforms "sum total" - " total" + "mary" --> "summary.
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by echion 9y ago
Paragraph 14[0] clearly states violations as a consequence of ORS 672.007(1)(c)[1] using the definition in ORS 672.005(1)(b)[2]: "by [critiquing an engineering formula] and submitting the critique [...] to members of the public" [
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by echion 9y ago
Understood - I read those exceptions and his attempt to use them. Obviously neither exception applies; but it's the fact that the definition of engineering in ORS 672.005(b)[0] is so broad is worrying. Saying that I can do some mat
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by echion 9y ago
Thanks -- I did use '>' but didn't wrap the lines myself, assuming the single '> lots of text here' was enough.
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by echion 9y ago
The Board's Final Report said, in a separate paragraph (14), that because "thinking and speech" (speech about his thinking, not "I'm an engineer")[1] were a violation of the law. If you're arguing the boar
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by echion 9y ago
I'm saying the Board's justification clearly says, irrespective of whether he said he was an engineer, just engaging in the practice of [creative work using mathematics and engineering knowledge] is subject to registration. I me
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by echion 9y ago
> You are not going to get fined just for calculating the hypotenuse of a triangle in public If the argument is "he said he was an 'engineer' and he isn't licensed", that's fine. And the Board's Final

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