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by gaika 18y ago
http://paulgraham.com/boss.html - PG on the same topic
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Competent Elites are More Alive(overcomingbias.com)
45 points by gaika 18y ago|31 comments
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Maturity transformation considered harmful: programmer's view of a financial crisis(unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com)
2 points by gaika 18y ago|0 comments
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by gaika 18y ago
Check more financial news at http://www.newmogul.com/ , founded by nickb.
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Tipjoy.com: Announcing Series A financing lead by Betaworks(tipjoys2cents.blogspot.com)
30 points by gaika 18y ago|9 comments
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by gaika 18y ago
That's the point! Selection bias compensates for all your confounding factors. You're in the same bin as your friends. Same factors, same outcomes. For example how many of your friends (or friends of friends if your sample is too small) are
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by gaika 18y ago
Maybe you should reconsider. Sampling over people around you is a lot more accurate metric than global statistics. First you have data sample that is relevant to people just like you. That means that you do not have to compensate for other
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by gaika 18y ago
I think what we need to do is go to everybody's house and make sure that only licensed statistical arbitrage traders have black boxes. What a great idea. I thought I lost the ability to be surprised by recent remedies proposed, this one s
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by gaika 18y ago
It's not there because it's not his quote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_a_sucker_born_every_m...
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SEC Plans to Temporarily Ban Short-Selling(online.wsj.com)
14 points by gaika 18y ago|36 comments
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by gaika 18y ago
SEC follows suit http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122178234612954617.html
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by gaika 18y ago
That's not a joke http://www.google.com/search?q=super+resolution
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by gaika 18y ago
Now there are super-resolution techniques that allow you to see beyond the diffraction limit.
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by gaika 18y ago
Tracking people by their shadows :) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1052250/Could...
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by gaika 18y ago
I noticed it about a week ago, was looking for a way to confirm it before posting my suspicions :) And by the way, who decides that it is a lightweight story?
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by gaika 18y ago
No. With less than 1% market share? ~10% stumbleupon users on my site are still using IE 6.
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HN: Vote weighting is already in place - silly stories sink faster
5 points by gaika 18y ago|6 comments
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about:internets(robert.accettura.com)
32 points by gaika 18y ago|7 comments
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World's Most Powerful Magnet Under Construction (100T)(spectrum.ieee.org)
3 points by gaika 18y ago|0 comments
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by gaika 18y ago
I wonder if machine learning can be used to enhance the way people "connect" with others... Oh wait, that's my startup :)
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by gaika 18y ago
Money is attack resistant. Those who think otherwise might end up in jail.
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by gaika 18y ago
Gaming can be solved by introducing attack resistant trust metric. The best one the humankind has come up so far is money.
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by gaika 18y ago
Yes, "free will" question as in "conscious choice" is the only formulation I found that doesn't involve supernatural. The answer still seems to be "no".
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by gaika 18y ago
Rails thread unsafety (active record specifically) was the last block on making multi-threaded apps. JRuby, Mongrel, were multithreaded before that. Mongrel has semaphore around main rails call. I assume once you remove it with Rails 2.2 an
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Brain Scanners Can See Your Decisions Before You Make Them(wired.com)
2 points by gaika 18y ago|8 comments
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by gaika 18y ago
I understand it that self-indication is for any observer, not just us puny humans. Oh, and that might be the answer to my question too!
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by gaika 18y ago
What's wrong with this simpler explanation: There are several time arrows, expansion of the universe, entropy increase, and your perception of future and the past. The last two are not independent at all, as your perception of the past is b
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by gaika 18y ago
Can anyone explain why it is on the front page of HN?
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by gaika 18y ago
In jRuby threads are native, so there should be a huge performance boost, has anybody tried it yet?
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by gaika 18y ago
Do you consider your mind a part of nature? If so, you're not free from it.

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