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by oli5679 10y ago
In the UK, your chance of death within the year crawls from approx 0 to 5% between 0 and 80 but then climbs rapidly to 30% by 100 and >50% by 110. https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html The recent 100 yea
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The perfect food to eat while driving(jalopnik.com)
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by oli5679 10y ago
The number of samples you want to take depends on the variance of the population and the precision with with you want to estimate the population mean (if both of these are greater you want to take a larger sample). 200 is normally sufficien
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by oli5679 10y ago
If the sampling process gives you a random subset of tiles, I don't see how the estimate could be biased. Even if you have a strange distribution of circles (heavily clustered in certain geographies), the weak law of large numbers woul
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Secrets and Agents - An Introduction to Information Economics(economist.com)
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Contagion in Mass Killings and School Shootings(journals.plos.org)
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by oli5679 10y ago
If anyone hasn't already read Chris Stucchio's explanation of market-making/HFT, this is well worth a read. https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/hft_apology.html https://www.chrisstucc
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by oli5679 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modigliani%E2%80%93Miller_theo...
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The Price of a Child (2013)(priceonomics.com)
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by oli5679 10y ago
I wonder if Amazon will ever offer AFS (Amazon Fulfilment Service)? Imagine how much lower their costs of delivering goods from warehouse to customers would be. I understand this would push people away from listing on Amazon directly and th
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by oli5679 10y ago
Anecdote, so place as much weight on this as you wish. I was working in a Starbucks in North London and sat next to a businessman. He started advising his wife/fiancee's distant family members on the phone who had travelled to Gre
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McDonald’s Holds Communities Together(theguardian.com)
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25 of the best photographs of Muhammad Ali(theguardian.com)
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Sam Fransisco median rent predicted using three variables(medium.com)
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It’s Time to Get Over Qwerty(blog.lareviewofbooks.org)
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by oli5679 10y ago
Sorry!
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by oli5679 10y ago
That's true, some of the most disgusting behaviour in history has used social darwinism as a justification for oppression. I guess I'm torn between an interest in and fear of the topic. I'm surprised that such compelling evi
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School Districts, Test Scores, and Income(randomcriticalanalysis.wordpress.com)
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Lichess.com
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by oli5679 10y ago
Interesting contrast to academic economists, where average output is probably less than 1 published paper per year.
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Victor – simple decision rule approach achieves perfect connect 4 play (1988) [pdf](informatik.uni-trier.de)
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Albion’s Seed – Settler Variation Could Explain America's Political Landscape(slatestarcodex.com)
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by oli5679 10y ago
It is worth noting that a majority of economists are studying narrower and more tractable problems than predicting business cycles/asset prices. Take a look at Al Roth's work on matching markets (useful for organising more efficie
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Leicester City: Dirty Dozen or Harvard Case Study?(bloombergview.com)
82 points by oli5679 11y ago|94 comments
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by oli5679 11y ago
The difference equation approach (computationally fastest) can be used to derive a elegant closed form solution that relates to the golden ratio. Fn=(1+√5)^n−(1−√5)^n\2^n√5 This deravation is pretty accessable and if you want to show off in
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by oli5679 11y ago
Yeah, if you have tests without strong correlations then your approach is a good one. My point is that when your test returns a result which had low prior probability (even if the test is accurate) you should often retain a lot of your scep
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by oli5679 11y ago
Individualistic, freedom/harm based moral thinking is far from ubiquitous. This can lead to libertarian leaning people (like me and many members of Hacker News) mischaracterising the world-view of many conservatives/liberals who h
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by oli5679 11y ago
I share the Rubinstein's reservations about the usefulness of Game Theory. To give some context, he is one the 100 most cited economists in the world, coauthor of the most popular graduate Game Theory textbook and probably has a reason
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How game theory will solve the problems of the Euro Bloc and stop Iranian nukes(faz.net)
3 points by oli5679 11y ago|1 comments
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Even if the sequencing process has very high accuracy, the conditional probability these people having the genes but not disorders could be low. By Bayes Rule: PR(Gene & no disorder | disorder result) = Pr(disorder result | gene & n

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