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by huac 10y ago
which Termin invented as well!
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by huac 10y ago
Thiel announced that he was funding multiple lawsuits against Gawker. There's more than a penumbra of evidence in this case.
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by huac 10y ago
At least in online contexts, this often means 'there might be an effect, but it is smaller than our experiment could have predicted. Let's keep adding samples.'
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Azure Notebooks(notebooks.azure.com)
5 points by huac 10y ago|2 comments
665.
by huac 10y ago
It's just Twitter. The new grad hiring at pretty much everywhere else is full throttle (or more accurately, pretty much done now).
666.
by huac 10y ago
I've required my students to turn in knitted pdf's from their R Markdown code. This course is more of an applied stats class, rather than stat computing, which I guess might make more sense. But it does ensure reproducibility (mos
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by huac 10y ago
Previously - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11600739
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by huac 10y ago
The entire argument is DOUBLE instead of INT http://blackboxvoting.org/fraction-magic-3/ within some Access database.
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Goldman Sachs Has a New Model: Apple(wsj.com)
1 points by huac 10y ago|0 comments
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by huac 10y ago
Shareholders have many different avenues to diversify their assets. Companies do not need to, and should not, attempt to diversify themselves for the sake of diversity.
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by huac 10y ago
Wait, what's the difference between "wubi" and "wubihua"?
672.
by huac 10y ago
Do you have a source for this? Pretty curious to see how that would play out.
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by huac 10y ago
Yeah, decision trees really shouldn't be used in practice. The variance of any single decision tree is too high to give you reasonable results. See also http://scott.fortmann-roe.com/docs/BiasVariance.html
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by huac 10y ago
What's your use case? The way the blog post is written suggests that their method performs a decomposition of the timeseries into trend, seasonality, and error. They then create a confidence interval, that's probably based off mov
675.
by huac 10y ago
Sounds like there's asymmetrical information, a great place for a startup to break into. Or create a better marketplace for seeds!
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by huac 10y ago
Has anybody used these?
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by huac 10y ago
I'm very sad that the MagSafe connectors will be gone. It's one of my favorite parts of the Mac ecosystem, and a huge advantage.
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The Malibu Juice Magnate(nytimes.com)
1 points by huac 10y ago|0 comments
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by huac 10y ago
Tell that to the Patriots' opponents: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/09/11/at-least-fiv...
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by huac 10y ago
he meant https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12222047
681.
by huac 10y ago
I think 'almanack' would be more recognizably 'almanac' from an English speaker's viewpoint (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_Richard%27s_Almanack ), and still preserve that 'fantasy
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by huac 10y ago
This is factually false, unless there's some 'entry level' below analyst, and if you're excluding the bulge brackets (and oh man the boutiques) from consideration.
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by huac 10y ago
Ok, maybe not law, but the others certainly have a high technical bar in the interviews.
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by huac 10y ago
> I don't know of many other professions that have 8 hour oral exams that test the sum of all knowledge in the field with such a strong negative bias towards hiring. Investment banking, management consulting, doctors, lawyers (proba
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by huac 10y ago
I've done a couple interviews over screenshare, where I setup my own IDE, and liked that more than the typical Google doc or CoderPad
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by huac 10y ago
For 1 year.
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by huac 10y ago
I've started writing everything in R Markdown and (very easily) converting to PDF or tex, which is just blissful.
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by huac 10y ago
to anybody curious about this dude's 'financial hacks' - just hire an accountant the vast majority of financial tricks require scale (of capital) - e.g. itemized deductions, business expenses, even tax-loss harvesting - but t
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by huac 10y ago
Similar returns, higher risk profile = :(
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by huac 10y ago
His LinkedIn shows that he worked for/founded a lot of startups and other smaller ventures. I'm kind of lost as to why he thinks Google is the logical next step.

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