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by leot 13y ago
I came here hoping to find intelligent commentary on the article. Instead, it's mostly uninformed criticism. The most promoted comments are basically "I didn't carefully read or try hard to understand this paper, but everything I think I kn
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by leot 13y ago
Being able to hear this happen in real time is surreal.
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by leot 13y ago
It's not clear what your second "they" referred to. The left-right divide is best described as a tendency to support established power versus a tendency to support those who seek to overturn established power. Hence "conservative" (meaning
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by leot 13y ago
One hopes that many such problems would have been resolved by now. Certainly the problems can't have been worse than 60 minute+ trading lags.
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by leot 14y ago
Why people haven't deployed something like this ( http://www.millenniumit.com/capital_market_solutions/ ) as part of a bank in the Cayman Islands eludes me. Yes, the upfront cost is large. But it seems likely that you'll own the market basi
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by leot 14y ago
What's so tiresome about panspermia?
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by leot 14y ago
I was speaking with a friend just yesterday about how useful and easy it would be (if you're the CIA/NSA) to run, say, the VPN "Private Internet Access". In that conversation I came to similar speculations as pg's about Bitcoin (I mean, the
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by leot 14y ago
This is beautiful: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=19292 Ironic/meta: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=34942
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by leot 14y ago
... makes coding that much more epic.
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by leot 14y ago
Yes, probability density estimation might be fun, but the simplest thing to do when comparing distributions, if you're worried about binning issues, is to plot their empirical cumulative distribution functions.
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by leot 14y ago
"Hoarding" and "Investing" are usefully different (if informal) terms, because they distinguish between very different uses of capital. "Hoarding" consists of putting all one's assets into extremely conservative classes (gold, cash, vast pa
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by leot 14y ago
Merely because a problem can't be completely solved doesn't mean efforts to mitigate it are futile.
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by leot 14y ago
Wow. Phoney lawsuit: brilliant. (not condoning this behavior in any way)
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by leot 14y ago
The more distant a man is from his quarry, the less compunction he feels. One bad consequence of this technology is that by permitting accuracy from a much longer range, it thereby further lowers barriers to homicidally bad behavior.
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by leot 14y ago
Getting the money and basic policy right is the easiest part. The fact is that it's really really hard to compete with California's intrinsic benefits. If Canada wants to develop its own SV, they need to figure out how to develop single r
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by leot 14y ago
That's awfully convoluted. You're asserting that this Glenn-Beck's-whiteboard-esque arrangement holds more sway on banker's behavior than the effects of inflation on bankers' own personal wealth holdings. Do banks want to be bailed out? Sur
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by leot 14y ago
"Saving" fails to distinguish between different uses of assets. "Investing" one's resources means putting them to work to create value. "Hoarding" them means the assets are as good as if they were buried in the ground. Investing is riskier
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by leot 14y ago
No, it's not a lie. Why in heaven's name would the investor class want higher inflation? They don't. The really don't. Our understanding of the benefits of a small amount of inflation comes in spite of the interests of those who already
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by leot 14y ago
Yes, it would be nice for us all to become rich without contributing anything. If you're a Good Person, however, you should be interested in becoming rich by creating real value. And you should be interested in promoting an economic system
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by leot 14y ago
20-30 minutes every morning, as part of a daily routine. If I don't do it I notice less composure that day.
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by leot 14y ago
I remember running into Hinton one afternoon back in 2005 while on St. George. He was walking home, and especially cheerful from having just figured out how to do learning efficiently on deep belief nets. It's amazing to see the influence t
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by leot 14y ago
One potential solution: require all drones (gov't included, unless there's a warrant) to publicly identify their location and operator if operated higher than, say, 20 feet.
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by leot 14y ago
The only way in which it makes sense to talk about numbers being written "right to left" or "left to right" is when comparing the order of speech sounds to the ordering of numerals read. In English it goes from the biggest to the smallest:
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by leot 14y ago
From a self defense perspective, how much more can a lethal gun do than a paintball gun loaded with pepperballs? Is the ability to kill necessary?
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by leot 14y ago
CrushMail (or something like it) circulated among my friends at some point during the late 90s. Perhaps she was fibbing, but the one girl who I think I matched with (??) said she had just clicked on everyone. So, plausible deniability wins.
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by leot 14y ago
I'm at Scholarpedia, and we're looking for people to help replace MediaWiki talk pages with, basically, this. If this kind of thing sounds interesting to you, please contact support@scholarpedia.org
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Scholarpedia extends $10K article writing contest(blog.scholarpedia.org)
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by leot 14y ago
Libertarians often claim that laissez-faire will always do better than intervention. From the above, it should be relatively obvious that depending on the government and depending on how non-stationary the economy is, laissez-faire could wo
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by leot 14y ago
The entire premise of libertarianism rests on the notion that the world will stay still long enough for market forces to weed out the baddies. Government can sometimes be the better solution because regulations can respond much more quickly
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by leot 14y ago
... and "in the long run" everything would work out, right? Except for the most part, there's no such thing as "the long run", since the entire concept depends on the universe being relatively stationary (from a probabilistic/statistical pe

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