james1071

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   by james1071 14y ago

   I had the misfortune of working for a firm where there were lots of actuaries. Every day the team leader would ask a junior to run his pricing model for a structured product. The junior would duly press F9 and the macro would commence, with
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   by james1071 14y ago

   The article is very poor. The facts are that from the early 1990s the use of EPO was widespread in professional cycling.The evidence for this is overwhelming (will clarify this but assume needs no explanation) but very few riders failed dop
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   by james1071 14y ago

   1 Armstrong's performances have always been viewed with extreme scepticism. 2 The USDAA's investigation has also been viewed with extreme scepticism. You believed completely in Armstrong and now completely believe in the investigation.
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   by james1071 14y ago

   Perhaps you mean well, but you have not got a clue what you are talking about. Armstrong has not tested positive for EPO, HGH or anything similar. The allegation about the prescription drug incident is completely irrelevant. Whether he has
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   by james1071 14y ago

   Yes, watch the boys on roids.
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   by james1071 14y ago

   So Tyler Hamilton has got a book out. What a joke.
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   by james1071 14y ago

   Part of wisdom is knowing that the typical hacker and the typical customer are alien species, who cannot speak each other's language.
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   by james1071 14y ago

   The author completely fails to understand that there are a large number of people who would benefit from programming but have been deterred from doing so.
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   by james1071 15y ago

   p(2s\T)=p(2s & t)/p(T) p(2s & T)=1/4 (13/49) p(T)=1/4 (13/49)+1/2*(1/7) p(2s\T)=(13/49)/(13/49+14/49) p(2s\T)=13/27
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    by james1071 15y ago

    The case is a pretext to get him back to Sweden, from where he will be extradited to the US.
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    by james1071 15y ago

    Disagree.The Financial Times is much better than those two, which are pretty patchy.
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    by james1071 16y ago

    Well, that struck me as a pretty pompous answer from the economics dude. If he could have been bothered, he could have found official price stats for various drugs and then written something factual.
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    by james1071 16y ago

    I am not sure that this is worth arguing about, but would question the ranking of MIT.
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    by james1071 16y ago

    The castor effect is what makes a bicycle self-steer. Bicycles with small fork rake are very twitchy-bikes with big fork rake are unresponsive.
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    by james1071 16y ago

    You don't owe them anything.