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by pyromine 10y ago
You can certainly learn to implement the APIs that are available, but in terms of really understanding I'd say wait a bit. Take classes in probability, and linear algebra, from there you'll begin to have the level of mathematics t
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by pyromine 10y ago
This is completely off-topic, but in the vein of talking about old games. Does anyone have any suggestions for games that scratched the same itch as the old school RTS games like Age of Empires and Rise of Nations? I've been searching
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by pyromine 10y ago
I regained my intellectual curiosity. Since then I've taken up personal projects again (like a set of interactive economic model solvers for students), and really gotten to love the process of learning again. I've also finally tru
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by pyromine 10y ago
Expanding on this, this idea of looking backwards as a method determining what returns you could have made is actually the root of a lot of _bad_ investment advice. People often look back and try to determine some type of optimal portfolio
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by pyromine 10y ago
I mean that was said in sarcasm, but there is a lot of discussion going on that the changing methods of communication can be having significant ramifications in all aspects of society. People have made arguments stating that Trump is a mani
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by pyromine 10y ago
At least you can break your data in to training and testing sets for stock picking, this is just hey guys we found a correlation. 20/20 hindsight is not a prediction.
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by pyromine 10y ago
How far back do we have to go to get to cars that just showed percentages, cause I have literally never experienced one in my life. Even my model year 2000 clunker has instant MPG, average MPG, miles to empty and a gas gauge with actual gal
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by pyromine 10y ago
There is actually a reason for this that follows back all the way to the middle ages belief that your body needed to be in balance, and black bile produced in the spleen was one of the components of that balance. Granted I was reading about
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by pyromine 10y ago
I know this is an unpopular idea, but even the belief that you're getting more than something is worth can cause negative emotions which is a negative marginal utility. The marginal utility is really the sum of the economic utility of
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by pyromine 10y ago
That's a fallacy assuming homo economics rationality, there can be valid reasons that accepting a lower price is more desirable than accepting a higher selling price. There is in reality such a thing as dis-utility, which can mean any
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by pyromine 10y ago
Simple password that you can remember encrypting your SSH key, know they can't compel you to give the password unlocking the key.
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by pyromine 10y ago
There is more than certainly forms of regressions that can work on heteroskedastic errors, i.e. non-iid (can be clustering, autoregressive, or more), but part of the general ordinary least squares assumptions and interpretations is iid. err
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by pyromine 10y ago
Oh yes, and actually classical recordings are highly litigated over. While the pieces themselves may be in public domain, differing arrangements are often under protection, and most importantly the recordings are the property of respective
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by pyromine 10y ago
Except that doesn't eliminate the confounding factor, so while your statement is true the parents is also.
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by pyromine 10y ago
To be honest, how does Amazon attract talent despite a pretty universal reputation of being a horrible place to work. I'd rather work for Microsoft or big blue than Amazon any day.
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by pyromine 10y ago
I mean Dave Ramsey is horrible, but AAR for the S&P 500 is in fact 10%, it's just that there is a large volatility to returns. Although average real returns are much lower due to inflation, but that's another beast, though arg
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by pyromine 10y ago
I'll add on my own anecdote here, I'm a stats major and I've found that in my stats (as opposed to pure math) classes, I find the learning is very much done just by reading the book because every new concept is just an intuit
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by pyromine 10y ago
Not the person you were replying to, but I'm greatly interest in learning more regarding to market microstructure. Have any books you'd recommend?
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by pyromine 10y ago
This is a completely unrealistic statement. Our models are imperfect, but with ever increasing economic data there is ever increasing opportunity to utilize statistics with economic and financial data. In fact look in to the field of econom
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by pyromine 10y ago
Statistically the central limit theorem is assuming sampling from the same population, there is no guarantee that two startup indexes are actually sampling from the same population
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by pyromine 10y ago
Dear lord, I've started writing all of my mathematics homework in LaTeX, it's not even remotely reasonable. Though interestingly, having to be more deliberate in my operations do make me have a much more rigorous understanding of
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Ask HN: How to be comfortable being uncomfortable?
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by pyromine 10y ago
Although in-case anyone, like yourself, is unfamiliar with Ben Horowitz The Hard Things about Hard Things is perhaps one of the most interesting business books available. I find it's applicability beyond just business makes it as funda
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by pyromine 10y ago
Similiar to other posters, I read this book in middle school and found it a great inspiration then. I actually at the time got really big in to Alice[1] a gui based programming environment Pausch pioneered and it led to a lot of my earlier
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by pyromine 10y ago
Suggested rephrasing. >will pay for it by charging to charge will subsidize supercharger access for Tesla vehicles via selling access to non-Tesla Electric vehicles
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by pyromine 10y ago
Not OP, but I'd say consider if you really are all those things. Very few people are, even Zuckerberg isn't, he was a competent coder not a great one but a visionary for sure. Ultimately no one can have it all, learn to focus on t
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by pyromine 10y ago
Wait, I didn't realize the prevailing opinion was that "right to be forgotten" is a good thing. I thought the pseudo-libertarian strain combined with the strong archival beliefs of many on HN would be turn common opinion agai
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by pyromine 10y ago
Definitely questioning that 1/20 figure, I had full anesthesia with a surgery earlier this year and I'm pretty sure I'd be informed of that kind of risk.
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by pyromine 10y ago
Similar to your experience of traveling with specialized equipment, whenever I fly with my skis I find them to have been searched with the handy pamphlet included inside. It's at least pretty good proof that these checks aren't ra
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by pyromine 10y ago
I didn't realize just how fragile TOR is. . . While I understand that remaining anonymous requires adjusting your browser habits somewhat extensively, the fact that a ReCAPTCHA is enough to (theoretically) de-anonymize a user seems to

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