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by hervature 10y ago
> Sanjeev Arora and his coauthors consider it “a basic tool [that should be] taught to all algorithms students together with divide-and-conquer, dynamic programming, and random sampling.” As someone who took Sanjeev's Advanced Algor
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by hervature 10y ago
Different size of the share of the company and less voting rights.
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by hervature 10y ago
To be pedantic, only the class A stock are expensive (quarter million for 1). Which is somewhat comical because stocks are traded in groups of 100 (so called "lot") and so $25 million is required to make a single transaction. Clas
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by hervature 10y ago
I don't know why this was an unpopular comment. I believe they meant to say "to solely blame". I think Michael Lewis did a very good job at showing the crisis was caused by what I dub the 5 pillars: 1) Greedy bankers who were
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by hervature 10y ago
From Canada here. I grew up somewhere where you see -40 degrees (where Fahrenheit and Celsius meet) during the winter is not surprising. The purpose for wearing two sets of gloves is not really for temperature reasons. The first set is usua
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by hervature 11y ago
I believe the correct way to do the counting for this problem is to list the valid orientations with an eel in the corner and divide by the total amount of valid orientations. This is correct if you assume that the artist is choosing unifor
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by hervature 11y ago
To those saying that the question is essentially asking "predict a coin flip" without knowing if the coin is biased or not ascribe to the tenants of Frequentist probability. That is, conclusions cannot be made until trials have be
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by hervature 12y ago
To be a pedant and assuming your confidence interval is at the 95% confidence level. Taking 73 checks will produce the 95% lower bound 95% of the time if you take any random 73 samples.