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by nikkev 8mo ago
Their business models are increasingly converging with both generative revenue through seller fees, subscriptions, and advertising. Amazon is ahead in most of these areas and also has the higher margin revenue from AWS. Amazon also has a la
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by nikkev 2y ago
There are two types of BNPL loans: interest free and short-term interest-bearing accounts. In theory BNPL has a couple interesting advantages. First you're underwriting each individual purchase whereas a credit card involves underwriti
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by nikkev 3y ago
You need to create a new chat then select the Dall-E 3 option in the plugins.
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by nikkev 7y ago
This ignores the risk of spreading the virus to other populations.
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by nikkev 7y ago
One point neglected in discussions is the effect of spreading it to other territories that are not adopting a similar strategy. The majority of cases in the English-speaking Caribbean to date have been from persons who traveled to the UK re
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by nikkev 9y ago
You're grossly missing the point. If your kid steals money from your wallet, you catch them and punish them. That does not make what they did right just because they were punished and you deemed their behavior unacceptable. What if you
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by nikkev 10y ago
It does, just look under paragraph.
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by nikkev 10y ago
When I was taking a class in Statistical Inference, we used a combination of Statistical Inference (Casella and Berger), Introduction to Mathematical Statistics (Hogg and Craig) and Probability and Statistics (Degroot and Schervish). If you
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by nikkev 11y ago
To add to your second point, Andrew Gelman had some blog posts earlier this year detailing the challenges of doing online surveys, where he used simple questions that respondents "should" have been able to answer in a survey and f
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by nikkev 11y ago
Not sure about that, just checked a link from a book that I had downloaded previously (this morning) and the download option was no longer there.
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by nikkev 11y ago
I don't buy the idea that the authors all still want a "cut" so to speak, given that many authors (at least in statistics) make copies freely available on their websites. I know Shumway did with the time series text and I bel
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by nikkev 11y ago
Seems to have gone dead. Maybe it was a bug at Springer or a brief promotion.
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by nikkev 11y ago
Yeah, most of the books I attempted to download were restricted.
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by nikkev 11y ago
This reminds me of the argument from Chasing Stars by Groysberg. It is very difficult to separate an individual's performance from that of their environment. A lot of factors come together, including individual skill, to influence some
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by nikkev 11y ago
Puyol was by no means an average player and neither is Pique. These are players who were/are considered to be among the top five center backs in the world at their peak. Isn't that by definition a superstar?
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by nikkev 11y ago
I find the conclusions made by this paper to be dubious. Perhaps the reporting is weak and did not properly delve into the methodology used by the authors of the paper to draw their conclusions. But based on the article, couldn't it be
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by nikkev 11y ago
I keep hearing/seeing statements like this when that is not the case. Models are inherently simplifications of the real world. I don't think the problem was with the math or anybody's understanding of it but more a result of