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by makeset 9y ago
What? All Abrahamic religious texts are notoriously ambiguous and self-contradictory. History of religion is the study of sectarian conflict.
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by makeset 9y ago
Front-running is an illegal practice that has absolutely nothing to do with order size. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_running
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by makeset 10y ago
I can think of few things money can buy that have impacted my quality of life as much as where I live, in both location and living space.
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by makeset 10y ago
Not verbal, but I think of strict adherence to coding and commenting standards in this spirit. A single character out of place can distract the reader from a fatal bug. Also, acknowledging one's fallibility and handling cases that shou
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by makeset 10y ago
RightZoom (free): http://www.blazingtools.com/right_zoom_mac.html Though I also tend to have ShiftIt or SizeUp installed and always use the keyboard shortcut instead.
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by makeset 10y ago
It's immature to rail on R for things like how its syntax doesn't look like that other language you already know, but yes, it's extremely quirky. And its unchecked flexibility, while great for experts providing DSLs and such,
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by makeset 10y ago
Also remember that heart attacks in women can exhibit markedly different symptoms, e.g. without any chest pain or arm numbness, often misjudged until too late. https://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Conditions/HeartAttack&
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by makeset 10y ago
> Statements like these suggest that another AI Winter is coming (sooner than 3 years I guess) I wouldn't bet against it. It's very risky to extrapolate progress in AI. A DARPA project named CHI [1] succeeded in automatically p
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by makeset 10y ago
If you rolled your own naive numerical approximation of L1 regularization, you might not have gotten exact zeros. If you use e.g. LARS or cyclical coordinate descent for the L1-regularized parameter cohort, as suited to the problem, you wil
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by makeset 10y ago
Yes, it does. You might have been thrown off by the fact that L1 regularization is not L0 regularization, i.e. it doesn't explicitly limit the number of nonzero coefficients. Still, the linearity of L1 constraint boundaries creates s
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by makeset 10y ago
My thoughts exactly. Sounds like he matched up with a pretty great advisor (good person, good manager, helpful, smart), worked on interesting problems, made progress on some, published, and graduated. To boot, when he decided to move on, hi
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by makeset 10y ago
True, although conventional metrics like Sharpe ratio or ROI are not very meaningful for HFT models, because they can't scale with any additional capital (you can safely assume they are scaled to the max). Their returns are extremely c
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by makeset 10y ago
Bear uses CloudKit, so your privacy is subject to Apple's private keys instead of Evernote's. Is that a significant difference?
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by makeset 10y ago
> rather than saving it, they should invest it into their businesses "Saving it" here is not hiding it under the mattress. Buying stocks is literally investing it, only into other people's businesses. Buying corporate bond
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by makeset 10y ago
How do you play a tabletop RPG by yourself?
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by makeset 10y ago
Well, 3 years (at best) to find an employer who will sponsor you for an H-1B visa application . And then you have win the once-a-year lottery to get the actual H-1B visa (~1/3 chance this year). And then you hope that your employer
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by makeset 10y ago
R's Scheme-like lexical scoping, lazy evaluation, and reflective abilities make it very extensible if you know what you are doing.
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by makeset 10y ago
"It's not the years, honey. It's the mileage."
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by makeset 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Harris_Simons
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by makeset 10y ago
Because liquidity is finite. Profitable investment opportunities don't scale indefinitely. When you discover that an asset is being offered for cheaper than what you think it's worth, pretty soon either you or others buy up all th
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by makeset 10y ago
You are correct. From the background notes [1] on the band's page: "It is not all one speed, but each section is at a constant rate, meaning that time does not “ramp” (accelerate or decelerate). We just toggle from one speed to an
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by makeset 10y ago
I'll say this: I switched to MacOS after smashing my last Windows (XP) laptop to pieces on the wall in a fit of rage ten years ago. Since then, I'd honestly completely forgotten how a computer could possibly drive a person to phys
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by makeset 10y ago
There's an excellent opportunity to apply machine learning here to automatically let you discover what you like. Starting from a set of varietals and/or random blends, it would generate new blends based on your rating feedback, ev
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by makeset 10y ago
Cutting out all sources of caffeine (I had to; developed an allergy) and taking fast-release melatonin have lately made a tremendous difference for me in falling asleep.
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by makeset 10y ago
Unfortunately a lot of R's internal standard library code isn't much better, rife with assumptions of minuscule data, gratuitous copying of input data many times over and pointlessly returning them in results, glacial I/O, gr
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by makeset 10y ago
> Status. Regardless of whether it should be or not, working towards and eventually getting a PhD degree is culturally revered and recognized as an impressive achievement. You also get to be a Doctor; that’s awesome. Ha, sarcasm, very fu
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by makeset 10y ago
A friend of mine participated in an ayahuasca ceremony, and he said that it completely changed him, from a person who wanted to try ayahuasca to a person who would never do it again.
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by makeset 10y ago
As a competitive powerlifter (and certified personal trainer) I should caution that there is an important difference between general strength training using the squat/bench/deadlift and the actual sport of powerlifting. Powerlifti
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by makeset 10y ago
That's a particularly incompetent and irresponsible view of engineering. The key to modeling anything correctly is to be aware of exactly what assumptions your choice of model corresponds to and how well they match the real-world proce
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by makeset 10y ago
That reminds me, years ago I was on the corporate buyer end of a sizable project, and everything was rolling smoothly toward closing, until a fellow engineer and I went on-site to see the code. It was as if it had been run through a human o

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