marckhoury

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by marckhoury 4y ago
> If people with over 250,000 in deposits are covered, the once again the the rich is allowed to avoid all risks for bad decisions. I feel like putting your money in a bank should not be considered an obviously bad decision. The risk pro
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by marckhoury 4y ago
There’s actually a lot of risk and costs when shorting. You need to pay borrow fees to borrow the stock, you need to post collateral that can be liquidated in the event that your position gets too risky, you need to post more collateral as
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by marckhoury 4y ago
Ah good point, you’re right. This is probably legally fine.
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by marckhoury 4y ago
I know, I just thought they would have acquired it. My statements were somewhat separate.
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by marckhoury 4y ago
I’m very surprised UC Berkeley doesn’t own that domain name. They have a trademark on “Cal”, don’t know if they’d file a trademark complaint if this got larger.
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by marckhoury 4y ago
https://twitter.com/sergeyi49013776/status/15984304798788567...
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Show HN: A tool for visualizing your YouTube watch history(youtubewatchstats.herokuapp.com)
3 points by marckhoury 6y ago|0 comments
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Numerical Algorithms for Computing Eigenvectors(marckhoury.github.io)
27 points by marckhoury 8y ago|1 comments
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by marckhoury 9y ago
Thank you! It's funny you should mention that because I've been thinking about continuous optimization a lot lately. That's a great video, I really like his slider method for understanding the coordinates. Thanks for linking
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Counterintuitive Properties of High Dimensional Space(marckhoury.github.io)
401 points by marckhoury 9y ago|64 comments
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by marckhoury 12y ago
Thanks, I put a fair bit of effort into cleaning it up! Mars and sfdp take very different approaches to graph layouts, attempting the embed the graph metric (mars) vs keeping your neighbors close while pushing everyone else away (sfdp). As
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Show HN: Mars – A graph drawing tool for large graph visualization(github.com)
7 points by marckhoury 12y ago|2 comments