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by hnracer 6y ago
I did well in my college math exams (top 5 percent of class) by just memorizing proofs and memorizing the methods to solve common problems without understanding much of anything about what I was doing. The exams were very much hackable. I w
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by hnracer 6y ago
It's an article about government censorship and China is one of the most strict censorship and surveillance states on the planet. Bringing it up is on point and relevant to the topic.
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It might be that more educated (wealthy) people self-select into red wine consumption because (1) wealthier people are more likely to have read somewhere that it's healthier (even if it's untrue) and (2) it's more culturally
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by hnracer 6y ago
Everyone I know (except for one alcoholic) consume 60-80 percent of their alcohol at social occasions such as at after work drinks or Friday at the local bar with friends
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Another possible reason for drinker Vs non-drinker distinction could be social life, those with lots of friends tend to be happier and also tend to drink as a byproduct of that social life
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by hnracer 6y ago
A bit off topic but is there a medical consensus that a glass of red a day is a net positive?
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The social justice disciplines which are pseudo-sciences, as illustrated in the Sokal hoax.
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Three reasons (I know both languages well): (1) R is used much less in the data science industry, and (2) Python is a more universally useful language. If he learns it for data science then he can easily write utility scripts, build a back-
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by hnracer 6y ago
SQL is almost never used in algorithmic trading by data scientists. Learn Python, it is used universally. Don't learn R.
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Sorry to hear this. I've heard that one of the small numbers of things that causes chronic unhappiness is long commute according to research
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All I was disputing was the original statement that prisons existing = societal failing.
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> The societal failings like prisons existing in the first place? Prisons existing is not a societal failure. You can't have a society with 330 million people and not have at least 1 murderer who is relentlessly violent, who needs t
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by hnracer 6y ago
Why is it intentionally racist to hold the perception that drug users and criminals are inherently violent?
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> stop shoving addicts into the same place as violent murderers. Isn't this already partly achieved by the delineation between low security & high security prisons, as well as delineations within the same prison complex (general
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by hnracer 6y ago
I don't think we disagree on all that much. > the root causes are rarely religious I can agree with this, but I believe my point stands that the specific contents of the doctrine can act as a significant magnifier when the additiona
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by hnracer 6y ago
> The idea that Islam is just destined to be violent and chaotic I agree with you on this point, and this isn't my claim. My only claim is that the doctrine plays some non-trivial causal role in the entire picture, in that it provid
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by hnracer 6y ago
I think we need a third theory of conflict: political-religious extremism/propaganda/brainwashing. Islamist terrorists and white supremacist terrorists derive some motivation (but not all) from their indoctrination. If the Quran a
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by hnracer 6y ago
The disabled reporter example isn't what it seems. Trump had done that identical style of mocking to many non-disabled individuals before doing it to the disabled individual, most likely he didn't even know the reporter was disabl
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This isn't a solution to your exact problem, but I find that muting specific keywords helps
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Given the number of politicians and media figures (who have influence over politicians) going along with the "no evidence" line early on, I believe the deleterious impact that I mentioned was real and significant. That's only
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It's not just the masks. They also got many other things wrong, and the leader of the WHO has a number of corruption allegations with some veracity to their name.
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It's pedantically accurate but grossly irresponsible for an agency that has such influence. Such a statement should only be uttered in scientific circles where the precise meaning of that statement is understood. "No evidence&quot
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The individual that leads the WHO also has a number of corruption and cover-up allegations. Let's also not forget that they refused to declare a pandemic until weeks after there was evidence of global spread. The negligence (intentiona
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by hnracer 6y ago
Not disputing the point here, but he also had Regeneron and Vitamin D both which have shown promising results
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by hnracer 6y ago
> Democratic politicians are the loudest ones calling for their breakup, ie. Bernie, AOC, Warren. Censoring Bernie's/AOC's political rivals (carrot) could be a better move to avoid being broken up than punching back direct
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by hnracer 6y ago
Nobody hires directly for it but it is considered favourably. SIG also has Bill Chen heading stat arb. Most firms I know of have a reasonably vibrant poker culture internally.
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As someone that had both studied and researched statistics (publications) and played poker, I disagree. Studying these topics will leave you with an academic knowledge, not a practical and deeply learned knowledge. There is a reason trading
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Do you have a suggested reading list I can look at?
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Possible commercial application: Pornographic deep fakes of niche fetishes the don't have much original content because of how small the market is. Make the controls (race, number of people in scene, etc) toggleable by the user for max
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by hnracer 6y ago
Data on which stocks are getting the most mentions in WSB is useful to sophisticated investors/traders, because it tells them which stocks have the most retail attention which they'd be interested in counter-trading. Otherwise I d

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