roman_g

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Ask HN: Major Texts of Our Industry?
1 points by roman_g 7y ago|0 comments
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by roman_g 8y ago
At least they are biased consistently and they truly believe they are not. When you agree to say and protect a set of views and facts carefully described in a contract... it's another thing.
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by roman_g 8y ago
Gosh, just read his first book. Black Swan. Where he shows that before Europeans discovered black swans in Australia it was a perfect "educated guess" to assume all swans are white.
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by roman_g 8y ago
https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/987700101090086912
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by roman_g 8y ago
It was one of Pascal main features in tape drive era: single pass compiler.
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by roman_g 8y ago
Taleb doesn't mean IQ doesn't test something real. He says this "something real" is irrelevant.
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by roman_g 8y ago
I thought free software was about freedom, not how to monetize it. You can never trust a service - only your own hardware (it's not quite possible with modern mass-market CPU though, only on IBM Power or some dummy MCU or even FPGA-bas
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by roman_g 8y ago
What other languages do you think "made it right" ?
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by roman_g 8y ago
And if foo(z) is consuming a generator somehow (e.g. it's next(g)) then you can't call it twice without side effects.
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by roman_g 8y ago
One of the richest companies in the world with very good engineers made a supercomplex engine which nobody understands and looks like they cannot make it better and we use it happily as given - something's wrong here.
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by roman_g 8y ago
Polish is a Slavic language and Latin letters are not suitable for it. I'm Russian who speaks English and a bit French and I can understand some Polish words (common roots etc.) like dobrze, dzień dobry, wiedzieć, znać, but I have no i
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by roman_g 8y ago
The whole article is a statistical fallacy. You should never compare "average" growth rates but extreme outcomes. What is the best possible outcome and the worst one in case of renting and in case of mortgage? P.S. Read Nassim Tal