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by floki999 7y ago
This is actually quite significant if you consider the perturbation which weather systems can have on flight operations. Weather can easily lead to annual losses > 100m to individual US carriers, due to delay and cancellations.
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by floki999 7y ago
Are there any open-source telemetry detection tools out there to easily identify this sort of thing?
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by floki999 7y ago
They spend too much time on HN.
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by floki999 7y ago
I had the same experience (Belgium and Italy) - I would add in the same category the old Game Developer magazine, which had a regular series on game physics and math. Still have a bunch of them. Those were the days :-)
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by floki999 7y ago
Thank you for making this available. I had the original book which unfortunately went missing between moves. A great book!
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by floki999 7y ago
I am thinking of highly dimensional and complex systems subject to significant noise, and operating over many time scales e.g. real-world economics and financial systems. Also, I’m talking about real-world, practical AI, which can be implem
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by floki999 7y ago
True, and this places a fundamental limit on the extent and types of problems which can effectively be tackled by machine learning and AI, generally.
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by floki999 7y ago
Yes, I know the guidelines. Not helpful.
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by floki999 7y ago
Ok, fair enough, I appreciate the answers to my question - why on earth would I get docked 4 points for asking a question is a mystery though.. whoever you are.
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by floki999 7y ago
Why would anyone use a third-party web service to carry out cyber analysis? These tasks are easy enough to do/code.
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by floki999 7y ago
This is one of those magazines that comes in this thisck premium paper - perhaps to give a sense of important content where there is little.
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by floki999 7y ago
Agree - very disappointing. I studied human and machine vision in grad school 20 years ago and fail to see the breakthrough hinted at by the title of the article.
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by floki999 7y ago
So true. Everyone and her grandmother is an armchair startup expert these days. WTF is a startup anyway. I’m building a new for-profit business enterprise, not a social i-have-one-too startup. Call it what it is.
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by floki999 7y ago
did I offend someone? it's a legitimate comment.
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by floki999 7y ago
In the US, homeowners will pay, as they should. Towns will pay, as they should, as they've had their collective heads in the sand.
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by floki999 7y ago
Miami Beach and other Fl communities are in for some incrasingly costly flooding.
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by floki999 7y ago
Seriously? XKCD for the sake of XKCD doesn't really work anymore.
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by floki999 7y ago
Should be titled "The Usefulness of Reinforcement Learning in Academic Finance", as I don't see the usefulness to real finance. Too many assumptions, short-cuts etc. That is the problem with quant finance. It has turned into
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by floki999 7y ago
I don't disagree with his thought experiement/model. Quite ironic though. Only five years ago I doubt Cliff would have invested time in thinking about this (I did work for him). The fact that AQR is paying attention and feels the
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by floki999 7y ago
If I recall well, Trump immediately undermined this report. 'cause he knows best.
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by floki999 7y ago
Totally disagree. In fact, institutional investors have for a long time resisted ESG considérations, and those who have adopted sustainable or responsible investment guidelines do so after a pretty thorough analysis of the investment risk&#
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by floki999 7y ago
We are beyond that point. Climate change is real - I think most sophisticated investors have done enough due-diligence to come to that conclusion, despite all the uncertainties. Investors and traders eat uncertainty for breakfast, lunch and
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by floki999 7y ago
That’s a totally legit position - the hope is that incumbents in these sectors will adapt and work to clean-up their operations. I don’t think any investor, no matter how large, is aiming to kill these types of companies - but institute pos
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by floki999 7y ago
I dont quite agree. While this is certainly a secondary factor, which a portfolio manager will worry about (i.e. a stock tanking due to bad press or negative ESG ranking), investment committees which develop responsible investing policies a
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by floki999 7y ago
Yes that’s true. And of course the banks have seen the ESG market as an opportunity to make a quick buck, and continue to generate report upon report. Also, many data vendors out there inventing all sorts of ESG metrics, many of which are o
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by floki999 7y ago
That’s great. Collectively, individual investors have tremendous power. Money talks volumes.
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by floki999 7y ago
Yes, good point. Large investors (pension funds being the big ones) have, for many years, struggled internally with this. After all, their job is to generate financial returns. Period. However, stakeholders (i.e. their members) have been pu
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by floki999 7y ago
And I’ll add that corporates can take action to tackle all three dimensions: 1. Reduce emissions by adopting new processes and technologies 2. Look at innovative ways to hedge their climate/weather risk exposure (yes, it is possible, j
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by floki999 7y ago
This is something which has been trending up for the past 5 to 10 years, and gaining more momentum. Large European fund managers (e.g. pension plans) have been at the forefront of responsible investing and it is developing quickly amongst t
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by floki999 7y ago
This is a great talk, thanks for sharing. So very applicable to this community on Hacker News.

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