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by npmisdown 5y ago
So the answer to the question in the topic is (B) ~0.33 (can't see the answer because of the paywall)? Doesn't seem to be a particularly tricky question unless I miss something, just basic probability theory calcs.
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by npmisdown 5y ago
My experience is complete opposite to yours. I've built at least hundred of little tools here and there to improve my productivity to the point where single keypress is what only needed in every other context to run specific scenario.
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by npmisdown 5y ago
The performance data from the linked arXiv paper: 965.9±3.4 [s] on AWS p3.16xlarge instance for program which calculates Hamming distance between two 8-digit hexadecimal numbers. Estimated sec. per cycle: 0.794 [s]. Also, from from the appe
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by npmisdown 6y ago
Every single oscillating particle needs to travel more absolute distance when speed increases, so it will oscillate with lower frequency for the external observer, thus causing time dilation.
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by npmisdown 6y ago
Could someone shed a light on economics of working on such kind of a project? Aren't developing third-party client for the entity which you do not control and somehow compete with is typically a futile experience? Doesn't it go ag
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by npmisdown 6y ago
Not sure whether 'large cardinals' phrase in your message is intentional or accidental pun.
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by npmisdown 6y ago
TIL: apart from infinity (number, larger than any real number in absolute value) there are infinitesimal (number, less than any real number in absolute value and not a zero). Edit: also, those infinitesimals were the subject of political an
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by npmisdown 6y ago
I'm sorry, if you could build a model to predict markets, why will you post in to Kaggle to get $40k in prize instead of applying this model to your own broker account?
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by npmisdown 6y ago
I think you have typo at https://www.gemalpha.com/#backtest It should be "Max drawdown" instead of "Max drowdown".
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by npmisdown 6y ago
I'm fan of heavy key mapping customization to boost productivity. The most productive remapping so far which I made is to globally remap (via xkb) Left Alt + HJKL to respective arrow keys. Works in all GUI applications which rely on ar
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by npmisdown 6y ago
Isn't it a perfect case for aliases? If you don't remember the particular command, why not to look it up for the first time and then assign personalized alias, which is easy to remember? Like with `tar` example and `zsh` you can e
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by npmisdown 6y ago
That's essentially my problem with the open source. I was an open source apologist some time ago, but since I quit full-time job and started to freelance/working on my own personal projects I began to realize, that I as an indepen