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by efavdb 5mo ago
Never saw that AGM expression for K0 before in the earlier linked post. Nor had I heard of the AGM, very cool.
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An Explicit Solution to Black-Scholes Implied Volatility(arxiv.org)
1 points by efavdb 5mo ago|0 comments
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by efavdb 6mo ago
Alexander the Great (died 323 bc) famously kept a copy of the Iliad under his pillow.
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The Infamous Coin Toss(ergodicityeconomics.com)
1 points by efavdb 6mo ago|0 comments
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by efavdb 6mo ago
If every manager initially had 5 reports, a quick geometric series shows that eliminating all managers would save you 20% of headcount. Of course, managers tend to get paid more, so maybe you'd save a larger fraction of wages. I wonde
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by efavdb 6mo ago
I'm a data-scientist now, and a fan of claude code for implementing things. But I have to say, I'm constantly surprised by how "dumb" chatgpt is as a math research partner. I will ask it a math question I'm thinki
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by efavdb 7mo ago
The earlier paper was from 2021!
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Optimal Elevator Placement(jslandy.com)
3 points by efavdb 7mo ago|0 comments
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by efavdb 7mo ago
>> This mind upload thought experiment convinced me… Start at the color green and gradually add in some blue. As long as there are no sharp discontinuities there is no such thing as the color green.
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by efavdb 7mo ago
When I look at traffic in my city, I rarely see it caused by full packing. Rather throughout seems to be the issue.
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by efavdb 7mo ago
The tldr for me from the report was Waymo is great and SF is a dangerous place to drive.
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Queueing Theory of Traffic(jslandy.com)
3 points by efavdb 7mo ago|0 comments
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by efavdb 7mo ago
I never heard the “Bernoulli” part, new?
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by efavdb 8mo ago
FWIW I have heard the exact opposite. The people I know love the self driving feature.
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by efavdb 8mo ago
Agree 100% -- wonderful history here. And with such a simple statement, hard to believe / accept the "reason" is that it works for 633 limiting cases.
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by efavdb 8mo ago
The privacy concerns are real. The need / demand for some verification system might be growing though as I’ve heard fraudulent job application (people applying for jobs using fake identities… for whatever reason) is a growing trend.
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Static Pricing Theory(varietyiq.com)
4 points by efavdb 8mo ago|1 comments
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by efavdb 9mo ago
Here's the wikipedia on that one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox
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Static Pricing Theory(varietyiq.com)
2 points by efavdb 9mo ago|0 comments
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by efavdb 9mo ago
Many times I've looked at the output of a regression model, seen this effect, and then thought my model must be very bad. But then remember the points made elsewhere in thread. One way to visually check that the fit line has the right
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by efavdb 10mo ago
I would certainly buy a copy were it printed!
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by efavdb 10mo ago
Looks like a treasure trove of knowledge. I just recently went to the exploratorium in SF and saw an exhibit there suggesting that the catenary made a good arch, so browsed that chapter and saw a bit of explanation here which helped. Was a
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The Cost of Allocation Errors(varietyiq.com)
15 points by efavdb 10mo ago|0 comments
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by efavdb 10mo ago
I agree, and would add that there are others who are decidedly "anti-car" and you could say that this is part of their identity. This particular policy may be a strictly positive (no strong opinion here), but when viewed as part
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by efavdb 11mo ago
Are you suggesting use the clip embedding for the text as a feature to train a standard Ml model on?
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by efavdb 11mo ago
“ I get why people—especially people outside of transportation planning—assume the solution to highway traffic is just to build more buses and trains. But I don’t see much evidence suggesting that big investments in public transit reduce tr
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by efavdb 11mo ago
“Current evidence does not demonstrate a clear link between paracetamol use in pregnancy and autism but our work also demonstrates how poor the data is around medications in pregnancy,"
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The Wholesale Gamble(varietyiq.com)
1 points by efavdb 11mo ago|0 comments
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by efavdb 11mo ago
Curious for the state on things here. Can we reliably tell if a text was LLM generated? I just heard of a prof screening assignments for this, but not sure how that would work.
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by efavdb 11mo ago
Interesting. I asked a friend from Texas and he said he wasn't even aware that shade was cooler until he moved out. Need more data.

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