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by huac 10y ago
"Students destined for Wall Street tended to arrive at MIT with weaker high school records, and later graduated with lower college GPAs." This is also true at Wharton! The really high GPA kids go to consulting instead.
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by huac 10y ago
I mean, no, it's called a competitive bidding process.
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by huac 10y ago
When I remark that President Obama had eight years without any ethical shadiness, Mr. Thiel flips it, noting: “But there’s a point where no corruption can be a bad thing. It can mean that things are too boring.” I gasped when I read this
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RStudio Connect: an R publishing platform(blog.rstudio.org)
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by huac 10y ago
We shouldn't normalize the idea that it's acceptable for Israel to control all communication and trade of another state.
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by huac 10y ago
The UK parliamentary system makes alliances necessary and difficult for any particular party to seize total control of power. Hence, the work that civil servants perform is unlikely to change between Prime Ministers. In America, well, Jeff
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by huac 10y ago
What does it mean to be a "HomeAway Official Partner"?
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by huac 10y ago
There is diversifiable risk and there is non-diversifiable risk. Everyone is subject to non-diversifiable risk, and there's plenty of risk associated with being poor, such as not having enough food to eat.
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by huac 10y ago
Risk is always relative. If you have enough capital, you can afford to focus solely on the long run, and plan positions accordingly. In general portfolio theory managers aim to optimize an objective - for short term hedge funds that's
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by huac 10y ago
It looks like the question title was changed, in order to aggregate similar questions/answers. Most of the answers answer the question in the current title. I agree that trading and IB is a big distinction, and traders are 1.5 feet out
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by huac 10y ago
More to the point, most investment banking valuations are just guesses and understood to be as such. Estimating discount rates and growth rates in particular are very much gut-driven and aren't expected to be precise, no matter how com
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by huac 10y ago
See Draft for markdown based editing w/the 'writing improver' - www.draftin.com
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by huac 10y ago
> + Reconstruction in deep NNs is often guided by an l2 distance. If there are competing feature sets, gradient descent moves the configuration to one of the stabilizers. > - Note. Is this indeed the case? Is there a WTA mechanism at
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by huac 10y ago
Basically that the median housing price is a function of the marginal propensity to purchase? Can't help but wonder how true that is.
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by huac 10y ago
Most banking analysts (read: first 2 years out of college) have similar need to have 'butts in seats' for ~ noon to maybe 4 pm. In the morning you have to finish the work you didn't finish last night or your boss wants redone
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White House to shut down alleged Russian spy base in Maryland(baltimoresun.com)
2 points by huac 10y ago|0 comments
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by huac 10y ago
ggvis works similarly, creating interactive web graphics in html output from Rmd http://ggvis.rstudio.com/
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by huac 10y ago
Amazon owns East Dane/ShopBop, clothing sites which do always use plastic bags. I guess for mainline Amazon they don't care enough about to differentiate what they ship products in.
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by huac 10y ago
There's a good comment on the article about using this kind of network to predict direction rather than return. I think that's where this would show the most promise: if you know the direction that a (liquid) asset or the market w
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by huac 10y ago
I think the Adam Curtis interview, though the obvious choice, is a really good listen even if you don't think you fit the typical listener's mold: https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-65-no-future..
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by huac 10y ago
For the leftists and/or generally disillusioned - https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house See: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/what-wi...
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Your App Isn't Helping the People of Saudi Arabia(theconcourse.deadspin.com)
2 points by huac 10y ago|0 comments
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by huac 10y ago
From my experience this year recruiting coming out of undergrad, for the top kids who do DS vs the top kids who do CS, the median comp is higher for DS but the highest comp packages come for CS. I wouldn't be surprised if this holds fo
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by huac 10y ago
I mean, I did a bunch of take-home tests. But those were focused on doing an analysis on some dataset, focused on answering a question. Should data scientists be expected to do more than that? Or are you expecting a certain level of code qu
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by huac 10y ago
How do you test for programming ability in an interview? Especially for people without a lot of work experience (e.g. graduating from college) One data engineering role asked me to implement k-means from scratch and one data science role as
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Searching for the value of emergent video game economies(rhizome.org)
1 points by huac 10y ago|0 comments
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by huac 10y ago
I think that we're talking about different levels of management, and their incentives. At the C-level there aren't great incentives for the accounts. There's an argument to be made that metrics can boost stock price, but what
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by huac 10y ago
Levine's later posts paint a very different picture of the scandal. It feels fairly disingenuous to squarely blame the employees, who by all accounts were overworked, underpaid, and explicitly instructed to boost their cross-sell numbe
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by huac 10y ago
There was a big jump in the stock when the acquisition was announced, so it would follow that the acquistion premium is priced in.
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by huac 10y ago
Yahoo stock hasn't moved very much recently over these issues. I guess the market still thinks that the Verizon acquisition will still go through. For context, the price was ~$43 after the acquisition and closed at ~$41 today.

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