robnagler

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by robnagler 8y ago
People have been saying Buffet is a lucky outlier for decades. Is his success in the following decades survivorship bias or a valid ex post facto test of success? If you believed in Buffett's investment philosophy in the 1980s based on
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by robnagler 8y ago
It's interesting that the 20y compound return are pretty close. I don't understand the STDev value in the tables, and it is not explained. Is that the the standard deviation of the annual returns?
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by robnagler 8y ago
This Freakonomics-style argument doesn't work. The only price that matters is the market clearing price. Appraisers don't know that more than anybody else. The only thing an independent appraiser would do is use (well-known) comps
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by robnagler 8y ago
More bikeshedding for the new year: #!/bin/bash for n in {1..100}; do f= ((n % 3)) || f=Fizz ((n % 5)) || f+=Buzz echo ${f:-$n} done
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by robnagler 8y ago
I disagree there are no consequences. Broken ribs have been known to occur.[0] [0] https://www.viarob.com/my/page/Snowtorturing
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by robnagler 8y ago
RadiaSoft | Research Software Engineer | Boulder, CO | FULL-TIME | ONSITE | http://rsl.link/rse RadiaSoft is an open-source software company dedicated to improving scientific workflows through our state-of-the-art Science-a
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by robnagler 9y ago
goalkicker.com is related to codeday.top afaict. They are the only two sites on Google that match some of the snippets. CodeDay is a machine translation blog which is very sophisticated. The PDFs appear to be a reorganization of those blog
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by robnagler 9y ago
Technology and Development (T&D) is directly related to computing, not content acquisition or sales. Computing costs are significant in this category, since they point them out explicitly in the notes. 64% savings would show up, since w
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by robnagler 9y ago
I would think it would be a significant shareholder event to save 64% of their total computing budget. Their 2016 10K https://ir.netflix.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1628280-17-496... says their 3rd party cloud computing cost
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by robnagler 9y ago
Something is wrong with the math: * Video encoding is 70% of Netflix's computing needs * Stated cost savings on encoding is 92% This equals a 64% savings on "Netflix's computing needs", which must be a good chunk of thei
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by robnagler 9y ago
In the HPC world, there are many of these: SLURM, Torque, PBS.
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by robnagler 10y ago
Excellent article, thanks.
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by robnagler 10y ago
I work in IT, because I fell in love with computers when I was nine. I get paid the same as you. My skill at being able to "juggle seven clubs" has no value. You know how to google as well as I do. Today's Internet sensations