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Analysis of crazy water slide jump(blog.dotphys.net)
1 points by gaika 17y ago|0 comments
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Bruce Schneier: Risk Intuition(schneier.com)
38 points by gaika 17y ago|6 comments
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by gaika 17y ago
Only because each individual algorithm is slightly overfit. Blending it all together keeps the good predictive part and reduces the overfit noise.
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by gaika 17y ago
Same happened before with chemestry / alchemy and astronomy / astrology - there were alchemists that were trying to please their king with promises of gold out of nothing or horoscopes, and there were scientists, that used it as a source of
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Do Users Really Even Exist?(gilesbowkett.blogspot.com)
3 points by gaika 17y ago|0 comments
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by gaika 17y ago
I think you didn't get it, hedge funds will be stealing money from these amatures, by knowing what's on their minds. Crowds, if you can predict them (or direct them), you can be rich.
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by gaika 17y ago
They will be selling user behaviour analytics, this is a gold mine for hedge funds. My startup would be first in line for that data too.
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by gaika 17y ago
http://top.searchyc.com/submissions
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by gaika 17y ago
Too bad git is not good for large files - http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2006/2/8/200591
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The 2008 Founders' Letter(googleblog.blogspot.com)
23 points by gaika 17y ago|5 comments
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by gaika 17y ago
http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/ - current manufacturer Old Model-M keyboards are still sold at http://www.clickykeyboards.com/ - or ebay.
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by gaika 18y ago
While your statement is true long term, short term there's still lots of pain from adjustment.
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by gaika 18y ago
why not post it tomorrow when it is actually open?
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Google's newest venture(googleblog.blogspot.com)
22 points by gaika 18y ago|4 comments
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My Manhattan Project: How I helped build the bomb that blew up Wall Street.(printthis.clickability.com)
260 points by gaika 18y ago|43 comments
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by gaika 18y ago
We have computerized factor analysis for stock market dynamics, curiously, the best fit also has 5 components.
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Madoff Employee Breaks Silence(thedailybeast.com)
26 points by gaika 18y ago|3 comments
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by gaika 18y ago
There's a ghost town in the middle of Silicon Valley too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drawbridge,_California
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by gaika 18y ago
I'm not a native speaker, but http://www.answers.com/wealth doesn't agree with you either. A company is something you can own, possess, a resource you can use as a tool. When it is bankrupt, I think some real wealth is lost.
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by gaika 18y ago
When a company goes bankrupt, is wealth destroyed? When creditors are not repaid, is wealth destroyed? When pension fund investors lose their money and would have to retire later, is wealth destroyed? Current stock and bond prices imply tha
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by gaika 18y ago
Not really, most of it was really destroyed - debts not repaid, foreclosures, etc.
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45 percent of world's wealth destroyed: Blackstone CEO(reuters.com)
4 points by gaika 18y ago|8 comments
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by gaika 18y ago
Just think how much they will lose in customer trust because of that. I pulled everything out today.
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Supercomputer Given 6/7 Stone Handicap Able To Win Professional 19X19 Go Games(nextbigfuture.com)
3 points by gaika 18y ago|1 comments
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SILK, Skype's super wideband audio codec, is now available for free(share.skype.com)
1 points by gaika 18y ago|2 comments
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Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street(wired.com)
13 points by gaika 18y ago|0 comments
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by gaika 18y ago
Bug in parsing: line 2 is mostly javascript, not mako.
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by gaika 18y ago
More evidence from fellow hacker - http://jwz.livejournal.com/1002269.html
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Automatic Differentiation: The most underused tool in the machine learning toolbox?(justindomke.wordpress.com)
50 points by gaika 18y ago|6 comments
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New kindle audio feature causes a stir: the right to read a book out loud(online.wsj.com)
6 points by gaika 18y ago|2 comments

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