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by pjmorris 8y ago
Actually, the GP's explanation is closer to true than yours is. I was taught the same explanation you gave, but it doesn't fit the facts on the ground. Banks don't base the loans they issue on deposits (the closest to this th
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But the 134K is only a validated if someone buys the house with 134K cash and/or credit. And that 134K is typically measured in terms of comps - nearby houses of similar size and similar condition... that were purchased with cash or cr
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For the downvoters: if it's a different number, where did the rest of the money go?
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$86,000 per person.
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Note that I (OP) am referring to builders, not sellers. With respect to the systems that hold FB's data, I'd argue they are more like builders than sellers.
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Hammurabi's code (~1700 BC) includes this about building: Building Code 229. If a builder builds a house for a man and does not make its construction sound, and the house which he has built collapses and causes the death of the owner o
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Each field seems to have its own nomenclature. I recognize 'instrumental variables' from a (bio-)statistics course, so I think that's a pure statistics term. Larry Wasserman has a vocabulary chart in 'All of Statistics&
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$75,000/160 sq ft = $469/sq ft. Downtown properties in the booming Raleigh market are around $400 sq ft, and they throw in the lot underneath the house for that. I don't understand the economics of these things.
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FTA: "Rooney’s staff had located a cache of largely unprocessed film that he identified as the “65mm Panavision collection.” (In this format, the negative is shot on 65-mm. film and then printed as a 70-mm. positive.) “The collection c
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> The best and most comprehensive historical account of the Apollo 8 lunar decision is contained in Charles Murray and Catherine Bly Cox’s 1989 book Apollo: the Race to the Moon. Murray and Cox devoted ten pages to the subject. They clea
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Thanks... I look at the QE vs. housing prices graph and see plausible correlation. My bias, supported by the graph: "With house prices dropping, the Fed steps in to bail mortgage lenders out, keeping prices at their elevated levels&qu
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Real estate supply is local; real estate demand, via capital, is not.
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Can you describe how you reached your conclusion from the data in the spreadsheet? I don't see any of the three series correlating particularly strongly with house prices. My own pet theory is that adding the Fed's QE purchases t
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by pjmorris 8y ago
FUD aside, I'm with the GP on a question that you might have an answer for: How will Rekognition positively affect the common person?
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I don't think it's restricted to students. To go back only a little bit in the history of things, I think Maslow was on to something with his hierarchy of needs. When you're safe and fed, and cared about, you have some room t
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Probably true. But I'm reminded that when Michael Lewis wrote his first book, 'Liar's Poker', he viewed it as a cautionary tale and a polemic against the behaviors he saw on Wall Street. He was surprised that its readers
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Tech Ethics Curricula: A Collection of Syllabi(medium.com)
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I've heard multiple Microsoft Research researchers describe that they'd interacted with Gates, and he was able to discuss quite technical aspects of their fields and their work.
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If there are old kits out there, or if the parts could be made from the old kit plans, we could try it out and see how people would do today.
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Two of my favorite stories about my life are examples of this kind of thinking. Once, during the doldrums after the dot com bust when our old firm had gone out of business, I interviewed for a position that was a bit too junior for me, but
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We had a few books at home, but more at my grandparents and my mom worked as a librarian for awhile. Reading was always for enjoyment and fun, so it was easy to read when 'required.' I never struggled with standardized tests. I
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I will always recommend the 'Amish Hackers' article by Kevin Kelly [0] which describes the sophisticated relationship the Amish have with technology. [0] https://kk.org/thetechnium/amish-hackers-a/
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Does ACMs Code of Ethics Change Ethical Decision Making in Software Development? [pdf](people.engr.ncsu.edu)
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> Issue for the future is that all interesting problems are beyond the comprehension of any human, so ... machine learning will win. I agree that there's a set of problems that are both beyond human comprehension and interesting to
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My technique is caveman compared to the article, but I habitually roll down the windows before I back out of a parking spot, so I can listen for as well as look for anything that might be in the way. I think I started this after our son was
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Look at the correlation between currencies traded around the world and currencies that are trade-able with governments to pay taxes. By volume, most trades are made in currencies created and backed by governments. People can and do make the
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And, also, government creates the money we trade around as 'ours.'
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I guess what I'm trying to say is that algorithms can't tell whether they're fooling themselves. Someone has to apply the 101 techniques for testing fit, etc. Humans at least have the opportunity, though, as you point out, th
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> “Machine learning algorithms will always identify a pattern, even if there is none,” he says. I think that's perfectly said. Humans are prone to the same thing, but we've developed better coping mechanisms.
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I think I misplaced my post, the intent was to respond to someone arguing that automation would help the wealthy quell the poor. Any comments I make about robots apply to machinery in general. To your question, it is easier to break a tank

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