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by huac 6y ago
> Rachel has a theory: “The rule quietly went into effect in March (after we had already been in development for almost 6 months), so they’re effectively squashing any competition co-star might face.” I also saw a slide from WWDC recentl
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by huac 6y ago
ah the follies of American-style options...
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by huac 6y ago
not investment advice: no, you shouldn't. the spreads you get can be tighter (good when you want to buy and sell), and any hypothetical front running of your order would lead to miniscule slippage over the long-run. buying SPY and TLT
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by huac 6y ago
the OP did not (explicitly) check, but you can check if the IP falls into a range allocated to Facebook e.g. https://ipinfo.io/AS32934
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by huac 6y ago
> Also all the government spending for COVID was also misguided. Not the federal government's role and our debt is at dangerous levels. What is the role of the federal government, if not "to provide basic services to its citize
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by huac 6y ago
only for the initial margin, not for maintenance margin
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by huac 6y ago
are these real decks? the quora one appears to be a course project. reddit also appears to be a marketing deck rather than VC pitch deck (still can be valuable but not quite the same)
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by huac 6y ago
IANAL, probably fall under fair use?
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by huac 6y ago
I agree. We need real estate that is only inhabited by data centers or automated pizza machines, no humans in the loop at all, not even paying rent.
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by huac 6y ago
baudrillard was not particularly amused by that placement: https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/24/opinion/editorial-observe...
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by huac 6y ago
https://developer.twitter.com/en/enterprise
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by huac 6y ago
picking a random one out of the pile: > Alpha#90: ((rank((close - ts_max(close, 4.66719)))^Ts_Rank(correlation(IndNeutralize(adv40, IndClass.subindustry), low, 5.38375), 3.21856)) * -1) I wonder how these magic numbers get picked (4.6671
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by huac 6y ago
I like this entry ( https://horizonship.com/ship/250m-aframax-tanker-2004-124258... ), listed at $11.9 million and includes the following line: "As brokers try mid/high US$ 11 Mio's."
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by huac 7y ago
google and facebook are not "most players" -- they own walled gardens for measurement, it's much harder to do measurement on open web auction placements. the google page you linked also says, "you won't be able to c
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by huac 7y ago
yeah you can try, for print/OTT the most common way to estimate lift is with DMA segmentation, compare lift in the DMA's which saw the ad versus the DMA's which didn't. but how do you pick the right DMA's to pair, e
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by huac 7y ago
ah but how do you really know if any of those numbers are causal? marketers need to account for multi-touch attribution, if a customer sees an ad on one platform and converts on another, or if they do it ten minutes outside of your conversi
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by huac 7y ago
yeah that's the point of the article.
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by huac 7y ago
if you believe that, then I'll trade you 20% of my expected 10 year income for 20% of my current discounted net worth (which is theoretically what a company's market cap should be, a discounted claim on future distributions). reve
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by huac 7y ago
your margins go away if you don't have revenue (no ads) and increased variable costs (more users hitting your servers) with constant fixed costs (rent, salary, healthcare).
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by huac 7y ago
bloomberg anywhere exists (cloud version) -- but there are regulations that require trader behavior to be monitored. no personal devices on the floor, for example, last thing you want is someone to send encrypted messages over signal that t
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by huac 7y ago
no - oil dependent companies bought oil futures to hedge their price risk, so you shouldn't expect much benefit there. additionally, the high yield bond sector has a ton of energy company exposure, and those are falling through the flo
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by huac 7y ago
prima facie this is good for businesses which rely on oil (airlines, etc) but most of the big companies hedge the price risk (both up and down) via futures contracts, so the price cuts are not likely to help any major businesses in the shor
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by huac 7y ago
> I can only wonder what the debt holders for oil and gas companies are thinking right now. decent chance they're asking for a federal bailout, and praying that russia capitulates soon
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by huac 7y ago
ML was not really a big part of their business (maybe the pitch decks)
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by huac 7y ago
Oct 21, 2019 https://www.axios.com/zoox-self-driving-car-fundraising-52aa...
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by huac 7y ago
I think that this means that certain rank-based metrics, e.g. NDCG or AUC, which are very commonly used in ranking or classification, can be represented in a differentiable form. That, practically, means that neural networks can easily opti
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by huac 7y ago
> "it will be very inexpensive" then your publishers will make very little money.
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by huac 7y ago
Fidelity's passwords map to characters on the phone keymap, e.g. the characters "j,k,l,J,K,L,5" can all be represented by the number 5 on the phone. Holy entropy, Batman!
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Using Graph Learning to Power Food Discovery with Uber Eats(eng.uber.com)
6 points by huac 7y ago|0 comments
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by huac 7y ago
I spent some time experimenting with https://github.com/facebookresearch/PyTorch-BigGraph and a few other libraries, I ran into some challenges given that my dataset was very large (O(100M) edges) and very sparse; and

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