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by grayclhn 11y ago
Um... I feel like there is likely to be a lot of selection bias in your experience. Now, I would notice that, having taken calculus before statistics myself, but...
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It's not that surprising that the rivalries you think are the biggest sports rivalries in North American sports stem out of Boston.
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That works less and less as more websites offer "improved" text editing capabilities through javascript.
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ask.metafilter.com or the right subreddit could be good places to try.
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Overengineeing doesn't take nearly as much skill as you'd think. It would be pretty easy for any of us to design a wall that, if left alone, would last for thousands of years.
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I'd say it's much worse than that. If I stop to walk in a marathon, I can probably expect to run faster for a little bit afterward. But I work slower after checking email. It's more like drinking a beer during a marathon. (Ta
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In addition to the other answers you've gotten (which I agree with and are probably more important than this one) the same advantages that are normally given for working interactively with a REPL apply to scientific computing in econom
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I was making a distinction between "hurts" and "doesn't help."
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Anxiety about writing or public speaking is. Not quite the soft sciences, but maybe close. (I think "outright dismissal" of the soft sciences is more likely than "anxiety" and maybe that's the point you were making.
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No, it says that if you're anxious about math, trying to teach it hurts the child's comprehension.
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My oldest daughter is 6. I introduced her to programming by letting her type in a full-screen emacs buffer with large letters. We'd change the colors, make a "rainstorm" or "snowstorm" (fill the screen with '&#
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It's kind of out of place in a pure text environment, but Processing[1] might be fun to play with. It's designed for visual arts. [1]: https://processing.org/
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Oh, cool. Thanks for letting me know.
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You're going to be even more impressed when you realize that "they" should be "he." :)
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Maybe you think that you learned something from the unsubstantiated claim that the female interns at the UN are usually attractive but not especially qualified. I can imagine a lot of scenarios that would make someone write that and many of
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I'm not entirely sure that comment needed to be made more visible.
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> (because this might turn out to be a niche product that no one outside HN will know about) If this is the outcome, doing well at starfighter may not translate into much additional career success. For it to be clearly worth your time,
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> There is a lot more you can do with 1h per day than you think. If you're consistent. Or, for some of us, there's a lot more you can do with 1h per day than you think, if you're willing to let that one hour consume your t
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One more anecdote: I read the email immediately, shared it with anyone I thought would be interested, and started to count down how long it would be before I could play the game with my 6yo daughter. So, um, it's working for me so far.
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by grayclhn 11y ago
We're getting think into the weeds, but I'll just share a different perspective. As a father of 3, I would much rather my spouse be a cheater than an alcoholic.
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That's a good point and I probably agree with you. "Self-selection" was my quick attempt to translate "endogeneity" into english :)
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Her time series course notes are [relatively] more accessible: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/14-384-time-series-anal... A less technical but less up to date time series reference is Cochrane's free bo
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The lecture notes for Mikusheva's graduate time series class are available through OCW: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/14-384-time-series-anal... The math behind her research is a bit daunting...the cou
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by grayclhn 11y ago
I wasn't expecting a "thanks for joining our incredible journey" post from google.* * http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
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Hedge funds are extraordinarily unrepresentative companies.
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I don't know about caltech, but many universities replace an F grade if you retake the class.
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It's pretty much the opposite of a startup opportunity, unless you want to have "preserved human knowledge" suddenly unavailable after an acquihire.
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The obvious solution is to write a julia macro that implements lisp macros as a DSL ;)
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The 'parallel' package has been included in recent versions of R and has RNGs for parallel execution and variations of the `apply` functions. For "embarrassingly parallel" calculations these work as drop-in replacements.
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It's interesting to see this viewpoint given as a reason to continue using language that we've been told is offensive and exclusionary towards a large group of people. (If you disagree with "offensive and exclusionary,"

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