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by shoo 1y ago
If you believe in long term mean reversion of CAPE ratio for US stocks, you'd expect price/earning multiples to contract by a factor of 2, over some hard to predict time frame, where CAPE reduces from 38 back to about 20. If we ar
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by shoo 1y ago
I've heard a few economists interviewed about the estimated impact of tariffs, an argument is that tariffs should lead to higher prices for US consumers, but as a one-time price increase, not a sustained level of price inflation. That
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by shoo 1y ago
the two nested bloomberg articles say > This year the world’s four largest tech firms will spend $344 billion on AI > Altogether, the four companies are expected to spend more than $344 billion for the year, with much of it going to t
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by shoo 1y ago
How big is $344B? Apparently the total market capitalisation of the US stock market is $62.8 trillion. Shiller's CAPE ratio for the S & P index is currently about 38 -- CAPE is defined as current price / (earnings, averaged o
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by shoo 1y ago
The analysis in the "Why does sorting win?" section of this article gave us a way to estimate that threshold. Here's my attempt at it, based on that analysis: Suppose each item key requires s bytes For the hash table, assumin
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i subscribe to economist podcasts and occasionally read the print magazine. it doesn't improve my decision making skills or leadership, it is sometimes informative but mostly a form of entertainment.
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by shoo 1y ago
re: Why are The Economist’s writers anonymous?, Frqy3 had a good take on this back in 2017: > From an economic viewpoint, this also means that the brand value of the articles remains with the masthead rather than the individual authors.
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by shoo 1y ago
Not a theoretical physics / pure math example, but Yann Collett is a example of someone who had a day job as a project manager, and did programming as one hobby, and ended up developing the LZ4 & ZStandard compression algorithms.
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engineer unsure if pie good or bad. sample more pie.
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Seems like a fantastic filter question to me. It's basic, it's not an unfair or trick question, there are multiple valid options that the candidate can respond with - you're not fishing for your single pet solution - and a st
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> With games like this, you might want to spend half the dev time on polish, or the game dev term being juice. see also: 2012 talk "juice it or lose it" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy0aCDmgnxg "A juicy
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by shoo 1y ago
Up on the shore they work all day Out in the sun they slave away While we devotin' Full time to floatin' Under the sea
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by shoo 1y ago
i can see how it'd be possible to transform from the input tabular format to the json format, streaming record by record, using a small constant amount of memory, provided the size of input records was bounded independent of the record
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> However, if I reflect on how much time I spent in the game in order to receive that much money it's laughable as it was easily 2 thousand hours of game play. but, you weren't playing the game as a job to make money, you were
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by shoo 1y ago
Many practical optimisation problems are less like "let's go hiking and climb a literal hill which we can see in front of us" and more like "find the best design in this space of possible designs that maximises some obj
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by shoo 1y ago
Australia has another (strange?) solution: Australian public companies pay tax and issue dividends to shareholders. these dividend payments have attached tax credits ("franking credits") that can be used by the shareholder to red
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by shoo 1y ago
Yep, there's a big difference between a company and its stock. Even if the company is great, an investment such as a stock can never be good or bad without reference to the price you need to pay for it. A famous example from the dot-co
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by shoo 1y ago
> I'm thinking of getting a housemate, both of which will reduce my burn rate massively. > I have enjoyed re-evaluating my spending. It was a bit out of control. I was getting fat eating too much expensive food/takeout etc.
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by shoo 1y ago
If you read through the methodology, including how they paid the participants $150 / hr, for 20-40 hours work per participant, you can probably hazard a guess why they didn't scale up the size of the study by 1000x.
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by shoo 1y ago
related book: Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments https://experimentguide.com/
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have a read through the case studies: gurobi case studies: https://www.gurobi.com/case_studies/ some cplex case studies: https://www.ibm.com/products/ilog-cplex-optimization-studio/... hexaly
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by shoo 1y ago
Mike Dodds' article "What Works (and Doesn't) Selling Formal Methods" offers some insight - two points were: (i) many potential applications of formal methods in business do not result in an attractive cost-benefit outco
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by shoo 1y ago
Sue-Lin Wong has an excellent 8 part podcast series "Scam Inc" about pig butchering scams, the first three episodes are free to listen: https://www.economist.com/audio/podcasts/scam-inc
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by shoo 1y ago
That breach of privacy from the recruiter sounds extremely frustrating. but i'd suggest still looking for paid SWE work in the short term, so you have a way to pay the bills and save some money, until you figure out what your next plan
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fascinating and disturbing -- i had no idea that there were fission powered satellites.
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see also: Andrew Gelman's blog > The problem with p-hacking is not the "hacking," it’s the "p." Or, more precisely, the problem is null hypothesis significance testing, the practice of finding data which reject
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by shoo 1y ago
There are many older threads about consulting and freelancing here on HN, often with good advice from experienced people. You can find them with a google search like "advice freelancing site:news.ycombinator.com"
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another ($250) option is https://www.crowdsupply.com/cool-tech-zone/tangara > Tangara is a portable music player. It outputs high-quality sound through a 3.5 mm headphone jack or Bluetooth, has great battery life, a
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by shoo 1y ago
similarly, apps such as pulsar in the android play store support playing audio files (incl flac) from storage
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the experimental section could benefit from some benchmarking against existing codecs

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