mathattack

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   by mathattack 13y ago

   There are real needs (hedging, especially if your portfolio has options) to know instantly what prices your actions get executed at. There are problems with the low latency trading, and some unscrupulous behavior, but it's not entirely
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Excel is good enough for most problems that small and medium sized firms have. Big Data tools and techniques are only worth the effort when the problems to solve are big. That's not small business.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   I am a big believer in investing in physical fitness for students, and think that sports can be great for learning teamwork and hard work. I'm not such a believer for focusing physical fitness money on a narrow subset of students in c
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   With no disrespect intended to the OP, this is an interesting comment considering that he came from Google, which is one of the world's largest beneficiaries of optimized performance. (If there's one place where run time trumps h
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Very good point. I really enjoyed being out of school so that I could control my reading list. The one thing I didn't like about going back for grad school was giving up control over my reading list for a few years.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Times have changed. Every kid today is special. :-) My observation is in a hyper-competitive city like NY, the parents do bad together against the teachers of administration if they feel slighted. There's a lot of jostling for posit
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   There's a legit trade-off. 100% memorization is bad. 100% learn to learn with 0% memorization is bad too. Research indicates that people learn more when they have context, which unfortunately comes from memorization. (I hated memor
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   That math didn't jump out at me, but you're right. Maybe she only starts the homework when he gets home? The pressure on these kids is immense, which is why you see cheating scandals in the top NYC schools. http://got
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   My experience in Japan was similar. "They're allowed a good vacation before school starts, and during college." The lowest University of Tokyo graduate has better placement options than the best graduate from any other scho
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I would just add that there is much more supply of folks interested in PE/VC than jobs. The firms have to cut the list somehow. Even limiting to the top 5 or 7 schools leaves them with way too many applicants. The other thing going
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I believe that we have done so much damage to Turing, that while this is a nice gesture, it does very little to the redeem society for the abuse we heaped on one of our greatest thinkers.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    This homework issue is peculiar in New York City. One issue is that parents do so much prepping to get into the elite gifted and talented programs, that kids are there who don't belong. What is challenging to a gifted kid (the progra
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Very few firms actually just want a body. Sometimes HR acts that way, but very few hiring managers truly feel that way. If they did, they would just hire a contractor.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    This reminds me of John Thain at Merrill. The company was headed for the toilet before he got there. He was the boss as the share price fell through the floor. He found a buyer, then asked for a large bonus. Ultimately he was rebuked, a
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    The strange thing about NYC is weird hipsters (and yes I'll call him that) are one of the things that make such a commerce driven city a livable place. They're behind random cool stuff in the park, most of the bars with really aw
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I hear you on this. I'm very interested in non-performance based reasons. Some of the python libraries are optimized for big data too, no? I guess the reason I ask is much of the "manipulate and check" that I do happens bef
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I was thinking the same thing. Of course if life is falling down to earth, it may be hard to tell apart, but there should be some hints of life optimized for earth versus optimized for elsewhere. I find the bacteria on the ISS fascinating.
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    The Future of Statistics Unconference(plus.google.com)

    2 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Integration is one of the biggest problems because there are the most unknown unknowns, to quote Rumsfeld. You don't know what spontaneous changes will happen, and you frequently can't control the resources on the other side.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    An open question - why do you prefer doing this in the command line versus via a scripting language like Python? I get the piping philosophy, but why one versus the other?
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I hear you. In a sense you could argue the liberal arts and community colleges do focus on undergrads, and the research schools take undergrads and professional programs along for the ride to pay the bills. In that case undergrads who sub
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Ahh... The rabbit hole question seemed like a hint too, but this confirms it. Unfortunately this means that the Enders Game line wasn't said in reality. Though perhaps in the future it will be.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Does this make Facebook the ultimate expression of Ender's Game?
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    It would be fantastic if this were true. I would think it wouldn't be too hard to genetically determine if these were extraterrestrial, no? The DNA would have some kind of unique markers due to the necessities of living in a differen
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Very different from Guantanamo. It's almost like after Vietnam we decided there was only one way to get information out of people.
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    Young, Hungry and Waiting to Be Unleashed(linkedin.com)

    2 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Thanks for the reply. On #2 - isn't runway money/burnrate? I always viewed it as measured in months. "We have 12 months of runway" versus "we have 24 months". I mention this because the original Wilson post
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Move east to Manhattan and it's easily $5,000/month for a 2BR. If you want a neighborhood with a decent public school, it's even more.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Let's go to the original post [1]. Fred says "To my mind, maximizing runway is not the game startups should be playing. Getting somewhere fast is the game they should be playing." This is consistent with the VC playbook. T
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Some people Adjunct to improve their resume too. NYU's school of continuing education has a lot of underpaid adjuncts who get residual benefits for the prestige of being NYU faculty. But nobody lives in Manhattan on NYU adjunct salar