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by nv-vn 6y ago
>These funds manage billions of dollars of client money, which forces them into highly liquid markets with scalable strategies. Obviously this is true, but I think you're missing the point. Trading with ML on price data is a strateg
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by nv-vn 6y ago
Probably not very good. Voleon does all ML-based trading and what I've seen of their returns does not give me any confidence in ML-based trading having alpha. I would estimate that at best in a good year returns would be like 5% y&#x2F
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by nv-vn 6y ago
People like to claim these things anecdotally but if you sit down for a few minutes and think about it then it doesn't really make sense. By doing something like that you'd sacrifice current growth, and since money today is worth
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by nv-vn 6y ago
When thinking about net worth in equity you have to consider how stocks are valued. He hasn't created the value of that many neurosurgeons, but the market believes that Facebook will create that value in all future earnings adjusted fo
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by nv-vn 6y ago
I'd be very surprised if there's a commercial compiler that would automatically optimize this into linear time. Maybe some obscure functional research language? But certainly don't think LLVM is capable of dynamic programming
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by nv-vn 6y ago
This says 55% https://news.gallup.com/poll/266807/percentage-americans-own...
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by nv-vn 6y ago
Yes, because everyone who works or has worked at Facebook is amoral and just after money...
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by nv-vn 6y ago
I disagree on breadth vs. depth. Breadth will give you the tools to succeed in a wide variety of areas and prepare you to delve deeper on your own. If you go deep into ML for example that doesn't prepare you to work on operating system
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by nv-vn 6y ago
Is it really even worth highlighting though? I use Telegram Desktop (Qt) daily and it is always, 100% of the time completely responsive. It launches basically instantly the second I click the icon and the UI never hangs or lags behind input
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by nv-vn 6y ago
I've definitely noticed the same on IntelliJ but weirdly enough Eclipse feels just fine. IIRC both are written in Java, so maybe it comes down to the design of IntelliJ moreso than the limitations of the JVM?
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by nv-vn 6y ago
It may be true that people are partially looking back in rose-tinted glasses, but there's more than just an inkling of truth to their side. Casey Muratori (game developer for the Witness) has a really good rant [1] about bloat in Visua
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by nv-vn 6y ago
Without having used Zoom much I can't definitively say how it works, but I've used BlueJeans quite a bit and noticed compression artifacts in various parts of the UI (e.g. text underneath each video source). That means BlueJeans i
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by nv-vn 6y ago
I'm confused what the implication of the title is supposed to be. Should he have given each restaurant $50 million? It really makes no sense to think of it as a percentage of his wealth, because it clearly brings $800k in benefits to t
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by nv-vn 6y ago
Important to note that PVS-Studio is a static analysis tool for C++. As such it would definitely be in their interest to have more people use C++, but since they're arguing in favor of Rust here it definitely speaks to the fact that th
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by nv-vn 6y ago
> I think Python and C are simply a must, whatever the language you use in your daily job and whatever else you might want to learn. You cannot seriously call yourself a programmer if you are afraid of C, and Python is too useful as an a
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by nv-vn 6y ago
I suspect this has to do more with social circles than country. Obviously there are more people buying new cars, or else there wouldn't be any used cars for anyone to buy. I think the same is largely true in the US -- lots of people wo
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by nv-vn 6y ago
Or people just enjoy having a car that they like? If you can afford it and you spend a lot of your time in your car, why not get one that you enjoy driving?
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by nv-vn 6y ago
I'm sure it doesn't seem like that to the citizens of Taiwan who are basically told to go fuck themselves by the WHO
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by nv-vn 6y ago
There is also a big push by the WHO to censor anything critical of China
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by nv-vn 6y ago
This is doing something different though. It first declares a as a num, then assigns it. There's not really a great equivalent in Haskell syntax, but in C: int a = 5; a = 7;
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by nv-vn 6y ago
To be fair it seems like it's mostly doing the same still, just with Stanford's material instead :P
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by nv-vn 7y ago
The data is definitely not update, in my state it looks like the data being shown is a few weeks old and the stay at home order isn't displayed either.
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by nv-vn 7y ago
I don't see how you can take any other view when we showed up to work after being put under quarantine. From the article it doesn't seem like he disputes the claim, he just implies that they wouldn't have fired him if he wasn
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by nv-vn 7y ago
The scary thing is that many of the deaths are more or less guaranteed even if we try to treat them, until the point a cure or vaccine is developed. >Why would we have a choice not to have serious economic impacts at this point? That&#x2
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by nv-vn 7y ago
Sure, I'm not asserting that the economic effects will lead to more deaths. I think this is something that needs to be researched and discussed publicly though, because it's really not something we have a good answer to. I imagine
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by nv-vn 7y ago
Agree. The scary thing here is that we're talking about completely pausing the world economy for one quarter? Or two quarters? Or a year? There's really no way of knowing what the effects will be and the longer this gets stretched
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by nv-vn 7y ago
They've been using chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as a treatment in South Korea for over a month now. It's not a "bullshit cure" just because it's not FDA approved yet. There's a number of papers showing th
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by nv-vn 7y ago
The scale is important. A JS interpreter is 10s of thousands of lines of code at best. Even if sandboxed, the likelihood that there's a way out of the sandbox massively increases as more code is added. The possibility of bugs in the in
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by nv-vn 7y ago
No, it won't. But there's no need to compile untrusted code in this scenario. All the code that is run should be packaged in.
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by nv-vn 7y ago
With the interest fading so much, I think Microsoft probably just wants to nix the project as something official. While it's not expensive for them to maintain, I imagine they don't want to be tied to a dying product like that. Th

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