mathattack

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1. 6991.▲
   by mathattack 13y ago

   So look at total returns for the past 15 years. Would you have been a happy share or option holder?
2. 6992.▲
   by mathattack 13y ago

   The charts on Yahoo Finance (very good website, btw - I'm unaffiliated) adjust for splits. This is why you don't see any discontinuity on split dates.
3. 6993.▲
   by mathattack 13y ago

   Yes. No dividends for most of that period too, which usually compensates for inflation.
4. 6994.▲
   by mathattack 13y ago

   Can you name the 16?
5. 6995.▲
   by mathattack 13y ago

   I was thinking the same thing, though I didn't have a citation.
6. 6996.▲
   by mathattack 13y ago

   Looking up MSFT at finance.yahoo.com, their stock is at the same level it was ~15 years ago. (I'm not quoting the bubble peak, but 2 years before it) This sounds more like a sloppy 15 years rather than a sloppy quarter.
7. 6997.▲
   by mathattack 13y ago

   Growing up it seemed crazy having to memorize these arbitrary taxonomy schemes when things intuitively didn't seem so black and white. I guess every model has it's shortcomings.
8. 6998.▲
   by mathattack 13y ago

   Yes - sometimes it takes someone famous to make the issue public, and everyone else will benefit. It was an absolute travesty and shame for what they did to him, and we are all the worse for it.
9. 6999.▲
   by mathattack 13y ago

   It's a great experiment. Sometimes you have to shake things up to keep the importance of an issue alive. Of course things take a life of their own on the internet and Facebook.
10. 7000.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    I hope they're right in fixing this. The overemphasis on whole #s is counter to much of reality and how math is applied.
11. 7001.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    I find this is very hard to screen for by looking at resumes, and almost as hard to detect in interviews. Even with an interview, sometimes people just talk a good game. The only reliable methods I've seen are "Hiring people you
12. 7002.▲
    Non-cooperative games by John Nash (1950)(princeton.edu)

    1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
13. 7003.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    At least the Russians weren't looking to nuke the Wiener Circle. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wieners_Circle )
14. 7004.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    I get nervous when physicists wander too far from Physics. They're a smart lot, but look what happened when they went into Finance. :-) It takes a while to apply the math skills properly elsewhere.
15. 7005.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    One could say that 22-44% is actually a much higher pass rate than most MOOCs, and this was a success. It's just that the school is stuck in an old way of thinking. What's wrong with using on-line courses to see where people sta
16. 7006.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    With software, this is a delicate line. It's also one that's taken me a LONG time to get my mind around. I always thought it was unethical to promise anything you haven't already done. Then Oracle came around and showed yo
17. 7007.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    Ahhh- that's why it's an issue that we don't accept the approval of other governments too.
18. 7008.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    I'm with you. I thank every recruiter who calls, and actively look for 1 or 2 leads that may help them. Yes, there are awful recruiters out there, but there are plenty of good ones just working hard for a living. What goes around com
19. 7009.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    My experience on friends of friends is it's a 2 way validation - it validate the hire, and it validates the firm. In lieu of this, headhunters expensively fill the function. I've found employee referral programs to be highly eff
20. 7010.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    "Most early-stage startup founders do a bad job of getting the company to focus on just two or three critical priorities—they chase whatever shiny new object appears that day." This is true of everywhere. Companies like to call t
21. 7011.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    Richard Marcinko ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Marcinko ) got into some trouble pulling this off in a physical security situation.
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    Spotify Doesn't Enrich New Artists--But Who Does?(forbes.com)

    1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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    Web industry officials balk at domain expansion plan(washingtonpost.com)

    1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
24. 7014.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    Is the bottleneck the drug companies, or the distributors?
25. 7015.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    I'm with you on the upwards trend. I would just toss in some non-linear jumps up as the family grows, and some setbacks as older family members become ill.
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    Big banks stage mega-cyberattack drill(money.cnn.com)

    16 points by mathattack 13y ago|6 comments
27. 7017.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    $60K seems like an awful lot for an on-line program. I think they are getting a lot of internal flack over the pricing. It seems to me that Berkeley should be jumping into on-line learning, as their state funding dries up. The best way t
28. 7018.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    There couldn't have been an easier way to test this?
29. 7019.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    My impression (could be because I went to a non-engineering school?) was that computer science had the most work of any major. Certainly much more than anything out of the business school, and most non-science. Perhaps Physics could have
30. 7020.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    You may be the exception. I have yet to see a software shop where the documentation and test cases were all current. You never know when status reporting can help... If done right. If 20 teams who each impact the final deadline all are 90