omalleyt

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by omalleyt 11y ago
I agree wholeheartedly and also want to point out that people who regularly produce great content can usually capitalize on their audience through other means that don't directly monetize the content. Obviously speaking engagements, ha
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by omalleyt 11y ago
This visualization is a multivariate linear regression with time trending variables...lol the entire thing is garbage, I could get a better R^2 than the 7 or so variables they used if instead I used variables to explain climate change like:
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by omalleyt 12y ago
I completely agree with you. Our primary education system is in no small part based on the Prussian system, which was developed after losing a battle to French, with the purpose of raising children into troops that would hold the line even
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by omalleyt 12y ago
Never use first differencing, that's crazy. It magnifies measurement error. Pass the signal through a high pass filter to remove trend
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by omalleyt 12y ago
Also, to clarify the prof mentioned specifically that triple damages was a result of the fact that this was a willful and knowing violation. So in fact he's actually absolutely right to demand 2-3 times damages. This article is wrong a
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by omalleyt 12y ago
The HBS prof got it "right" in that he pushed for triple damages which is the highest plausible outcome of this case and has the potential to scare the defendant. This is the kind of "right" that the HBS prof's cons
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by omalleyt 12y ago
The cell example is very cool. It's not a Markov chain though. The probability that a cell grows from size 2 to size 3 (in probabilistic notation, P(2->3|2) ), for instance, would be 2/(sum of all cell sizes), and the sum of al
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by omalleyt 12y ago
The bulk of people in the consulting industry are undergrads right out of college. Source: in consulting