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by gd1 14y ago
How do I explain this... it is quite odd talking to someone who thinks your way. I know you exist but I struggle even to wrap my head around it. Racism/sexism/whatever... a wrong is a wrong. Fight it wherever you find it. My example was
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by gd1 14y ago
I'm sorry, this is ridiculous. So if a Japanese person discriminates against me on the basis of race in Japan, it is racist, but do it in the US and it is "racial discrimination"?
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by gd1 14y ago
Are you going to let the dictionary makers know?
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by gd1 14y ago
If the series don't really correlate to temperature (and the red noise doesn't) even though they appear to during the calibration period, then how it moves before the calibration period will be random. So when you take your weighted averag
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by gd1 14y ago
Does it sound by my post that I am ignorant of these "multiple" reconstructions? They all use the same proxies and similar techniques, Esper, Briffa, bristle cones, etc. I have read a good number of them. They are all awful. Paleoclimato
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by gd1 14y ago
Lies, damned lies and charts eh? The CO2 can be put in a better context here: http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/PageMill_Images/image277.g... Age of the Earth: 4.5 Billion years. Time we've had weather satellites up: 30 years. Geologic
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by gd1 14y ago
The flaws are numerous, but the easiest to explain is that they employ a post-hoc screening bias. Imagine that you gather a few dozen time-series together. They go back two thousand years. Then you regress them against the (very short) i
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by gd1 14y ago
I'm sick of the drama. Once upon a time it would have been possible to just watch that video and marvel at the majesty of nature, now we can't have a single natural event these days without you and your cargo-cult mates attributing it to '
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by gd1 14y ago
Why? It's a glacier. A "river of ice". They flow into the ocean. Calving is what they do ffs.
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starter pack is 25k for 2 cores
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by gd1 14y ago
What a terrible article. That line of APL is sheer beauty ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4 ) - being ignorant of a language's syntax and not willing to invest the time to learn it is no reason to claim it is 'impenetrable'. I'm
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by gd1 14y ago
I think we are getting closer to understanding here. You're kind of quibbling over the definition of value in your other post - someone can provide a "valuable" service even if it isn't currently being used (by your 'real transactors'). I
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by gd1 14y ago
You're still missing it. Every single additional limit order in the market creates real value. If I want to buy 500 shares of company A, and one market participant is offering 250 at $10. Another is offering 250 at $11. It is going to
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by gd1 14y ago
It doesn't really matter why anyone is in the market. The fact is that they are posting prices to the limit order book, and in doing so providing liquidity and accepting risk and providing a service. The only way the OP could get execut
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by gd1 14y ago
A strange position to take, I'm guessing you've absorbed it from the media somehow. His machine was in the market enough to trade 4000 times a day (I would suggest passively, or he would have been eaten by the cost of crossing the spread),
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by gd1 14y ago
Of course it was silly. Conservation of energy... There is no net gain, they would put energy (food) in to their 'human batteries' but it is impossible to get back any more than they put in. Complete nonsense.
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by gd1 14y ago
Because the human brains can only communicate and acquire knowledge at a limited rate. This causes the "exponential decrease of discovery impact of each succeeding researcher" that the original post refers to, but he misses the point compl
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by gd1 15y ago
In Q/KDB: /1 million random floats between 0 and 10 a:1000000?10.0; b:1000000?10.0; c:1000000?10.0; sum each flip (a;prev b;next c) /To do it in parallel sum peach flip (a;prev b;next c) Sometimes it is like living in a world where people r