micwawa

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by micwawa 11y ago
Yes, there's a handful of arguments, but at some point in the introduction he says (I don't have the book in front of me, so this is my best memory) that the main argument in the book will be the Boeing 747 Gambit, presented in Ch
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by micwawa 11y ago
One possibility is to take a mixed strategy approach. Companies facing this situation can buy into a pool, and then flip a weighted coin. If the coin comes up "fight" they get a team of heavy-hitting lawyers who will slug it ou
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by micwawa 11y ago
The argument may be valid, but only as far as it argues an irrelevant case: Hardly any religious person would suggest that God came into existence sometime after the creation of the Universe. Am I missing something? You're suggestin
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by micwawa 11y ago
Just curious, did anyone read The God Delusion and find his central argument disappointing (complete nonsense)? I read the book after he promised to reduce the probability of existence of God to the probability of something completely absu
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by micwawa 11y ago
Since you asked : I've never billed an hour for my programming, so technically zero. I did spend dozens of hours, as I was starting from scratch skills-wise and using this as project to try and build some data science chops. I learned
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by micwawa 11y ago
I'd like to see someone describe how to do this in practice. Maximizing variance doesn't do you much if your high end doesn't beat the others, especially if you don't know how high you have shoot. If you overlap two
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by micwawa 11y ago
I'm curious if there is a way to scrape the historical roster data, so one could figure out how much variance the other players are getting. On FanDuel you can browse through the other rosters by hand, but the API doesn't appear
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by micwawa 11y ago
I did a similar thing, with the same data. I created a maximizing team, and then some nearby teams. I'm doing slightly net positive (I've turned $200 into a whopping $229.) At this point. I really can't say if this is chanc
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by micwawa 11y ago
Of course, but this is people's lives and careers. If you've spent 60 hours a week for the last 40 years on something you aren't about to hand it over to some randomer on a wiki.
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by micwawa 11y ago
The point of science isn't so much to product truth but to determine which truth we actually care about. So instead "science" is really a community of scientists, and in order for this to exist you have to have all the gate
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by micwawa 11y ago
If you're the victim of a sociopath, it's easier to sleep at night thinking that what happened was just some accident of nature. To accept the alternative, that another "human being" did what they did for no other reas
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by micwawa 11y ago
When dealing with sociopaths, you have think of them like diseases and not even begin to attempt to relate to them in human terms. Saying "I'm glad that Skreli went to jail" should be stated with the the same joy or sense of
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by micwawa 11y ago
The article says "The bill would make it easier for private sector companies to share user information with ... other companies". Taking this at face value, any potential employer could conceivably access everything I've eve
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by micwawa 11y ago
So if I delete my YikYak account today will I still be employable in the future?
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by micwawa 11y ago
A lot of places expect this, and my observation is that it fuels even more twisted behavior by the companies. For example, in Academia, it's not uncommon to sue over a failed tenure case. I know of a colleague who was terminated the y
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by micwawa 11y ago
I think one of the seminal papers is by Belkin and Niyogi: http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~niyogi/papersps/BNcolt05.pdf
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by micwawa 11y ago
Perhaps companies that choose not to do this can market their products with an "100%-arbitration-clause-free!! " slogan somewhere. Then we could hope this catches on. Corporations are assuming that we don't pay attention to
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by micwawa 11y ago
Or some very ambitious consumer advocate needs to step up and form some sort of large scale consumer union. I would be "in."
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by micwawa 11y ago
I've had versions of this thought. A less punishy way of doing this is fill up the references with a few extra references to the journals you prefer. Over time, the metrics and citations will drift upwards, and this could lead these
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by micwawa 11y ago
Most of the spammy for-profit journals are ignored by serious academics. You wouldn't be caught with one of these on your CV. The big Elsevier ones are a problem, because they are revered as the good journals. For example, Advances
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by micwawa 11y ago
Hyper competitive atmosphere is a problem, but in order to scale out of it you would have to scale by a very large number. Many tenure-track positions have near 1000 applicants.
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by micwawa 11y ago
Any professor who understands the first thing about marketing and adoption should do this. Jack Lee taught me smooth manifolds out of his own book that he gave to us for free. 10 years later, I'm teaching out of that book, so my stud
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by micwawa 11y ago
I'm currently teaching out of Stewart because that's what the general curriculum for our department is. Stewart died an insanely rich man, and I'm sure will keep making slight modification of his calculus textbook from the g
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by micwawa 11y ago
There is policy on conflict of interest, which is why this is surprising. I've taught at both public and private universities and had to (annually, I seem to remember) fill out forms listing all sources of income and all potential co
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by micwawa 11y ago
Agree.
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by micwawa 11y ago
The 'optimal transportation' is misleading in this case : People are not interchangeable, so you are actually trying to find a map between the space of { people who have to go places } and {routes they might take } . Once every
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by micwawa 11y ago
In the literature I've encountered a Cournot-Nash Equilibrium is a solution to an optimal transportation problem. There could be some discrepancies in definitions as to the parameters one is allowed to vary. This is also assumed to be
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by micwawa 11y ago
This is fantastic. Manipulating ratings is a big business, and it is good to see that Amazon is being aggressive toward this. There was a time last year when they gave MediaBridge a rough time after they hired a lawyer to harass genuine r
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by micwawa 11y ago
"Nobody uses pure strategies anymore. They're too popular" - Yogi Berra
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by micwawa 11y ago
From my (mathematician's) perspective, when the solution to the optimal transportation problem corresponds to a Nash equilibrium, this is called a Cournot-Nash equilibrium. This does not happen generically. In other words, it is very u

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