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by moments 11y ago
The parent here makes a good point, and your comment appears to represent a common misconception about neurotransmitters. Both dopamine and serotonin can do different things depending on the system and the receptors that are actively pres
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by moments 11y ago
How did you pick the window size used in the analysis? Did you try different window sizes? I have seen many time-series analyses posted here lately, and all seem to use arbitrary window sizes. Edit: PS, thanks for posting this and being a
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by moments 11y ago
To Be Human: long and comprehensive (not actually written by him, but a collection of his works). Flight of the Eagle: short and comprehensive. Freedom from the Known: short and practical.
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by moments 13y ago
While I agree with the spirit of this, the conclusion is not necessarily correct. The mean can be highly informative, but should never be used alone. Assume you know only the mean revenue and the maximum revenue (but forgot to measure vari
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by moments 13y ago
Thank you, this looks interesting. Also, a guy named Kent has a book on this called: Psychedelic Information Theory. There is a web print of the book floating around.
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by moments 13y ago
I never realized that the median is an average... interesting. So any average can be dominated by extreme events, except the median average. Then we are discussing averages, in general. So, the common misconception would be: -Averages a
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by moments 13y ago
Thank you for the interesting link. >statistics tells us that 50 of them will do better than the market averages (and 50 will do worse) This is a common misunderstanding, but actually 50% will do better than the median not the average.
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by moments 13y ago
The author follows this rule: only recommend a strategy that is currently used. If the advice goes badly, the author also suffers. Such recommendations are more reliable than those from authors without 'skin in the game'.