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Irrational exuberance is the best example, in my eyes. Conventionally, economists would say that "bubbles" are just rational price fluctuations, and result from new information. Shiller's explanation was much more about con
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I'm curious, why not migrate? edit: Sorry, I'm stupid.
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The Unlikely Google Killer(medium.com)
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Indeed, he is well qualified, and I find that he is an original thinker, able to go against the grain of mainstream economics and find valuable insights. However, in this case, I find the narrative to be simplistic. It is almost shocking
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I feel nervous admitting this, but I don't see much of value here. I am definitely not typical, I realize, and often the major benefits of technology don't become apparent until a while after they are announced. But, right now,
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Household Debt Surpasses Its Peak Reached During the Recession in 2008(newyorkfed.org)
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I think most people from Pittsburg consider themselves part of the Northeastern states, not the Midwest. See this article, for e.g.: https://matadornetwork.com/life/piss-someone-pittsburgh/
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This should have been obvious, I guess, but when I read your comment it felt like a revelation. Suddenly, so many articles make sense. It reminds me of the inconsistency inherent in most books about how to beat the market.
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A self-repairing surface that stays clean and dry(economist.com)
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I appreciate the insight in this article, but I wish I could remove all of the predictions. The insight (to me) is that it may be a good idea to take tools your company uses and make them into products, for several reasons. That's in
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SpaCy: Multi-Task CNN for Parser, Tagger and NER(github.com)
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I see your position. We should acknowledge that both sides of this are well-trodden, and the article even touches on it: "It puts Google, and the tech economy, at the center of one of the great debates that has raged in American educa
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> I cannot answer for them what they are going to do with the quadratic equation. I don’t know why they are learning it This sounds disingenuous to me. There are lots of things kids and college students and adults learn that have no imme
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Unconditional Cash Transfers: Investing Directly in Poor Families(povertyactionlab.org)
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They also have a cool API: http://api.thenounproject.com/ , which is used by automated logo services logojoy[0] and Tailor Brands[1]. I think Google's autodraw[2] + noun project would make an excellent pairing. [0] htt
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Interesting that you mention lawyers. I've heard multiple times that they are at super high risk of burnout. This quote, for example: "Lawyers are at especially high risk for burnout, both because of the job and because of the p
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Microsoft hired that guy, Andrew Kim, the designer who did the rebrand (if you don't know what I'm talking about: http://www.minimallyminimal.com/blog/2012/7/3/the-next-micro... ), but he's
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Fat tails, long-term autocorrelation, discontinuities in price changes, divergent variances. Aside from missing those observable features of the data, the theory is missing much about market agents: herding and contagion, information asymme
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"People thought it was crazy when Google decided to connect all the world’s information" I'd love to see a citation for this. I sort of doubt, at the moment, that anyone seriously said "Google is crazy for trying to con
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Honestly, I love when the fond-memory train comes to any thread.
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I'm very much among the (small) camp of people who thinks that standard portfolio theory isn't worth a whole lot even when the assets are stocks. It just fails to describe important features of the data. To me, this ruins the va
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What Color is that Swan?(medium.com)
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Good Managers, Not Machines, Drive Productivity Growth(bloomberg.com)
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Apple Becomes First U.S. Company to Top $800B Value(bloomberg.com)
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Trump Takes Aim at Western Monuments That May Hold Oil Riches(bloomberg.com)
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SoftBank Unit Invested $2B in Didi's Record Funding Round(bloomberg.com)
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An employee who exposed Rothenberg Ventures to the SEC(bloomberg.com)
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Frustrated with Tesla and GM, David Einhorn Amps Up Pressure(bloomberg.com)
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For an illuminating perspective about different paths automation may take, which also uses history as a guide, see this: http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21701119-what-history-... My key takeaway is that, oft
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On Clickbait, or “Learn from Harvard 3 Devious Ways to 10x Readership”(medium.com)
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