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A Nobel Prize for the Credibility Revolution(marginalrevolution.com)
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Nike's End of Men(houseofstrauss.substack.com)
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The origin of Covid: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?(thebulletin.org)
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An NFT That Saves Lives(paulgraham.com)
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How the UK found the first effective Covid-19 treatment(vox.com)
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by oli5679 5y ago
It's interesting that he spends so little on servers. 1 billion chess games per year, often with >20k concurrent users and and some very heavy-duty engine analysis occurring for some proportion of these games and they only spends $5
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by oli5679 6y ago
An ascending auction is strategically equivalent to a 'Vickery' 2nd price auction and logistically simpler, since it only requires one round of bidding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickrey_auction This igno
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The Pandemic and the Decadent Society(douthat.substack.com)
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by oli5679 6y ago
(1) their insight is not novel, they have independently reinvented Something that started with the Kelly Criterion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion (2) Expected utility theory makes no assumptions about
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by oli5679 6y ago
Can this be used for rating systems in a game?
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The founder was an early backer of Alibaba. This had a phenomenal ROI but has a sample size of 1. They paid a high price to purchase ARM, which has since been very successful. I would be interested in an ROI breakdown for different time win
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by oli5679 6y ago
Hi thanks for sharing. The above I noticed and I thought it was captured quite well by the title. Thank you for flagging though it is useful context. My overall assessment is that this is grey/whitehat but merits further investigation.
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https://github.com/pypa/pypi-support/issues/923 "The package only contains __init__.py file, that says: # the purpose is to make everyone pay attention to software supply chain attacks, because the risks
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by oli5679 6y ago
MarketFinance | Data Scientist | London/Remote (UK-based) | Full-time At MarketFinance, our vision is for entrepreneurs to have the time to build the world we all want to live in. Frictionless access to funding helps make that happen.
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by oli5679 6y ago
For new fields like machine learning, there are free, open access journals that work perfectly well in filtering the highest quality research. It is helpful to have top tier journals like Nature, but the value is generated by the editors an
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by oli5679 6y ago
Aaron cofounded Reddit, resigned, turned down multiple opportinities to build out other tech companies, dedicated himself to open access activism and eventually killed himself as he was prosecuted for wire fraud. Meanwhile, Relx currently h
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Technology Without Industry(geohot.github.io)
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by oli5679 6y ago
Guerilla Open Access Manifesto Aaron Swartz July 2008, Eremo, Italy https://gist.github.com/usmanity/4522840 "Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world
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Tord Romstad – How Modern Chess Programs Work(vimeo.com)
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by oli5679 6y ago
MarketFinance | Data Scientist | London/Remote (UK-based) | Full-time At MarketFinance, our vision is for entrepreneurs to have the time to build the world we all want to live in. Frictionless access to funding helps make that happen.
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The AstraZeneca Vaccine Works Well(marginalrevolution.com)
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by oli5679 6y ago
The undercover economist - Tim Hartford The accidental theorist - Paul Krugman Or if you want a textbook, Mankiw is pretty good.
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by oli5679 6y ago
Stockfish has two key components: (1) an evaluation function, that quantifies black/white advantage in a chess position. (2) a search algorithm, that iteratively checks move sequences from a starting position using (1) and returns a re
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by oli5679 6y ago
I am wondering if this is a satire? Sentences such as the below do not seem serious to me. "Totalitarian states Not an extinction scenario or a global catastrophe in the familiar sense, a global takeover by a ruthless totalitarian stat
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by oli5679 6y ago
True you can just sort your oracle values once/in your head this is a valid point. Reasonable to prefer this way!
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by oli5679 6y ago
To avoid repetitions, can you do this? assert sorted(result) == sorted(['a','b'])
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Steve Jobs rare footage conducting a presentation in 1980(youtube.com)
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"Because it is unethical to intentionally harm someone for the benefit of medical research." People incur additional risk for enjoyment, money or to contribute to a social cause in many aspects of life. If you work as a deep-sea-d
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The USA's DARPA program funded important research into - The internet - GPS - Graphical user interface and mouse - Onion routing - Voice assistant Hopefully this program executes well. There is clearly a big social payoff to betting bi
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Efficiently updatable neural networks for computer shogi [pdf](github.com)
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