natalyarostova

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by natalyarostova 9y ago
The first can be relatively rigorously defined. The second is more of a shared feeling on morality. In any event, I don't see Harvard or MIT awarding lottery slots in their entering class to working class kids and minorities who scored
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by natalyarostova 9y ago
Yeah, SLU lacks culture. I couldn't stand to live there, and during the day working there it's somewhat depressing. I'm also growing tired of the rich culture in cap hill though, which comes with homelessness, addiction, and
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by natalyarostova 9y ago
That's really not the only thing that can improve society. Singapore, as you note, improved without it. Well, many places have. You may not like the consequences that come about from a quasi-fascistic techno-reactionary government, whi
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by natalyarostova 9y ago
Bezos is gearing up to be a major player in DC, and the times wrote that infamous piece on how bad Amazon is. Although that's sort of a conspiratorial theory, which may or may not be true.
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by natalyarostova 9y ago
I count that as a +1 for Amazon, where in my experience it's far more work focused. At least compared to my buddies at Facebook or google, where these conversations seem to be somewhat common. (Could also be team specific. My team is m
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by natalyarostova 9y ago
Sure they do. Things change all the time, often for complex reasons that are emergent properties rather than the motivated action of individuals.
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by natalyarostova 9y ago
As a data scientist I have wondered if this field is particularly suited to imposter syndrome. My formal background is economics, and every once in a while I become terrified at how little formal statistics I've studied, or large gaps
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by natalyarostova 9y ago
Hah, d2jsp... Haven't heard that name in a long long time.
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by natalyarostova 9y ago
Thanks! I work as a Data Scientist now, but my start was heavier on the econ/data side, with the goal to push more into the data-dev world. The only thing I hate more than spending all my time writing bad code, is the idea of not spend
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by natalyarostova 9y ago
> (can you imagine if doctors had to memorize random trivia to get a job)? Comparing yourself to doctors, with the implication that it's easier for them, is pretty silly. Doctors have to memorize perhaps the most shit to get a job,
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by natalyarostova 9y ago
A good collage degree should only be $10 or so, it's not that hard to cut/paste pictures together.
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by natalyarostova 9y ago
As someone who is a year into obsessive self study, but who often feels dejected at the challenge and what feels like slow progress, it's reassuring to read this and see how long it took you :)
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by natalyarostova 9y ago
I'm on my fourth or fifth personal project, first four or so failed. Now as I'm learning design patterns it gets a little easier each time. Just keep writing bad code every day, and each time learn why it was bad lol.
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by natalyarostova 9y ago
I think you should do a little research on how cap gains taxes interact with charity, it's not how you think.
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by natalyarostova 9y ago
Can you write a methodological doc in LaTeX, detailing general algorithmic choices, without giving away your secret sauce?
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by natalyarostova 9y ago
There is a difference between the naive sample size (just your raw n value), and the information content of your sample size. How many crashes has bitcoin had? Depending on how you measure it, somewhere between 3-10? And even then, these cr
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by natalyarostova 9y ago
Of course information has non-zero weight. Whether on a harddrive, or in your brain, it is a physical state, which has non-zero weight by definition. Why do you think information can exist that does not consist of matter?
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by natalyarostova 9y ago
When people want something nationalized, it usually comes with the asterisk *as long as the gov officials managing it are part of my tribe and preferred policy set. This isn't always bad, since sometimes we all are in general agreement
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by natalyarostova 9y ago
You would have to pay proportional rent to the token holders, as they are entitled to it for owning a % of your house, otherwise they are letting you stay there rent free.
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by natalyarostova 9y ago
2.5 more years until I get my stock... It is nice to have a good chunk of change to start a family with, but I hope to eventually find a job where I'm able to maintain enough time for side-projects and personal hobbies.
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by natalyarostova 9y ago
There seems to be a social convention that has formed around social media products that the user should never have to take out their credit card and actually pay. It makes sense why it started this way, since network effects are everything
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by natalyarostova 9y ago
After doing my MSc in Political Economics and studying lots of Game Theory, I became more interested in computer science. I remember watching a Stanford lecture online on computational game theory. He explained many games are NP hard, and w
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by natalyarostova 9y ago
If there is an effective way to improve skills in coding that doesn't require hours of debugging and frustration through the day and into the night, I'm not aware of it.
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by natalyarostova 9y ago
No, you're right. For portfolios It's all about the covariance matrix. Having said that, there is probably still the more banal reality of pensions or institutional funds actually needing a portfolio manager to go out and buy bitc
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by natalyarostova 9y ago
They recently hired a new layer of product managers on my team... nothing like watching someone who has never written a line of code in their life try to micro-manage Sr. devs. (And for what it's worth, I recognize some level of effe