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by robterrin 9y ago
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-salary-of-Singapores-Prime-...
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They used Stan! http://mc-stan.org/ Gelman and the rest of the crew at Columbia are doing great work. Check out https://www.generable.com/ too.
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Did nobody read the underlying research of the centerpiece study supporting this hypothesis? How did this headline and the article get written? "We investigate these issues using the World Management Survey (WMS), an international data
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Tyler Cowen ask a liberal and a libertarian about rent seeking, edu and Bojack(soundcloud.com)
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C corps pay taxes on operating profits which are gross revenues (that is, revenue less cost of goods sold, which for software companies is usually 0) minus operating expenses. Operating expenses include salaried employees. Then you take out
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Equifax, Hack Backs and Heart Attacks(robterrin.com)
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I used to work in Deloitte's Federal cybersecurity practice. Nobody I sent articles to had heard of the recent email server breaches before I told them, and they are still waiting for leadership to make a practice wide statement. Then
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by robterrin 9y ago
On a consulting project a few years ago, I was brought in to help a Fortune 500 energy company make sense of the value at risk model that one guy had built over 20 years in VBA. Most of it was pulling from excel spreadsheets brokers would s
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by robterrin 9y ago
Thanks for your interest! Press w for widescreen mode and f to go full screen. Sorry it was a presentation for class so it wasn't designed to be super user friendly. I also reknit and uploaded a pdf version, it just doesn't look a
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by robterrin 9y ago
Thanks Rosebud! This is a cool analysis, and I really appreciate you sharing the code. There are a ton of ways to pick apart the interpretations, but I feel that you were pretty up front about the difficulties of inferring much. I can empat
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by robterrin 9y ago
I think it is a vague idiom by intent, but here's one definition: "To behave in a way that is accepted or demanded by those in authority"( http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/play+the+game ) I view this skill a
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As a recent MBA grad of one of the schools listed in the article I would like to note a few things: First, Amazon is 3x the size of any of the tech companies it is compared to. Google actually hires more MBA's per capita and Amazon hir
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Surprised I didn't find this comment up higher. This is my first thought every time. Good observation!
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Uh oh. If you don't watch out you'll end up a Bayesian. http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/p_... Is this along the lines of what you were hoping to find? Here's more: ht
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Everybody (except Amazon) will probably end up worse off. See Thaler's famous paper on the "Winner's Curse." http://econweb.ucsd.edu/~jandreon/Econ264/papers/Thaler%20JE... I'm not su
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Two comments: 1. First and foremost, go Olin College! It sounds like a really special place where liberal arts and engineering are valued. I wish more colleges followed this model. 2. It's not very surprising and likely a statistical q
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I learned about Qadium last spring. Not sure how under the radar they were then, but I heard about it through a referral of a referral working on cyber risk. If they are able to credibly provide a baseline for number of connected devices an
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by robterrin 9y ago
I appreciate your view point and wish it were true, but Canada is way less diverse than the United States. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Canada ) Research shows that as diversity increases, so do politi
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by robterrin 9y ago
Thank you for this comment Leo. My cybersecurity company ( http://tailriskconsulting.com/ ) was spun up to help small and medium sized financial institutions doing business in New York State deal with new regulations ( http:&
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by robterrin 9y ago
Cool! Thanks for sharing. I would also like to add, Stan is not that hard. Conceptually it's a bit of a jump, especially if you're coming from comp sci not statistics, but I think it's really worth it. Here are some helpful l
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Great question! I'm looking forward to hearing the answers. I think this is the hardest problem in entrepreneurship and why social capital and access are actually way more valuable than capital, technology, intelligence etc. I'm i
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And before NJ the US tech hub was Baltimore. Information technology has been built into the economic history of the United States for quite some time. The first electronic telegraph ran from DC to Bmore. Prior to the telegraph and it's
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Thank you for creating something and trying to help people in one of life's most important activities. I want you to know that everything after this is coming from a place of genuine respect and support. My preemptive apologies for bei
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There are lots of discussions and explanations of what it means to be "Bayesian," but I think the best thing to do is jump in and start building models. That is how I came to understand the utility of Bayes. If you're looking
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I used to implement smart card as Personal Identity Verification for Federal employees. It was required by a regulation driven by the post 9/11 Bush era called HSPD-12 (Homeland Security Presidential Directive - 12). It was a real boon
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Ask HN: What to do with a list of potential customers?
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Everything Game Trailer Voice Over by Alan Watts(youtube.com)
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Stan is great! Glad to see it on HN. Nice write up too.
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I've heard this pitch for Chicago many times, and it seems reasonable if you are in the one of the industries, Tyler mentions, that are more diffuse. The main problem with Chicago is it lacks an anchor industry. Is it the best place to
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How Uber and Airbnb Won(wsj.com)
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