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by simulate 12y ago
There is lots of software for decision analysis style decision trees. See: https://www.informs.org/ORMS-Today/Public-Articles/October-V... There is currently some confusion about decision trees used in decision an
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by simulate 12y ago
Are we talking about Charlie Ayers, the Google Cook? He earned $26 million from his options, not $200 million. He also had over 150 employees and 5 executive chefs reporting to him. He did well and was fortunate but he also wasn't just
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by simulate 12y ago
That's a good list on SO from Johann Strathaus. Thanks for the link. It's unfortunate that after being open for 5 years, having hundreds of up-votes, and 30 answers with several good responses, the question was recently closed on
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by simulate 12y ago
Thanks! I have edited and corrected the problem.
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by simulate 12y ago
Joel Spolsky wrote about something similar with Microsoft missing its Start button placement by two pixels: > the Windows 95 team missed the point completely with the Start push button, sitting almost in the bottom left corner of the scr
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by simulate 12y ago
16.6% CAGR over 33 years is astronomical. Apple, one of the most successful corporations in history, has achieved an 18.95% CAGR since its launch in 1984. $100,000 invested in Apple in 1984 yields $18 million today. You can play with that
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Like taxis and hotels, the mugging industry is being disrupted by technology(blog.penelopetrunk.com)
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by simulate 12y ago
Reminds me a bit of the Trojan Room Coffee Pot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot
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by simulate 12y ago
> More people have been in space than have lived underwater to do science. The qualifier, "to do science" in the above quote is important. Nuclear submarines stay submerged for up to three months, with normal patrols lasting 3
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The Story Behind The THX Deep Note(fastcodesign.com)
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by simulate 13y ago
Try wrapping each of these in BigInt. Example: factorial(BigInt(1000)) Julia defaults to what is fast on your machine. If you want to use BigInt you can do so but it doesn't do so by default. You can also use 128bit integers in Julia.
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by simulate 13y ago
In the 19th century, the Kodak Brownie was banned from beaches and the Washington Monument over concern of camera fiends: "The appearance of Eastman's cameras was so sudden and so pervasive that the reaction in some quarters was f
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by simulate 13y ago
> you have chance 1 in 1000-2000 that you'll die next year. You have a 1000-2000 chance that you'll die when you are no longer an infant but still young. Your chances of dying next year go up as your get older. If you had only
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by simulate 13y ago
> Demand has no direct relationship with profit. This is false. Profit = Revenue - Costs Revenue = Demand * Price Costs = Demand * Variable Costs + Fixed Costs Thus, Profit = Demand * Price - Demand * Variable Costs - Fixed Costs As long
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by simulate 13y ago
This is useful for getting kitchen supplies for our 25 person office. It's a small bummer that they don't deliver beer and wine from Whole Foods or Lucky for our Friday Beers but otherwise a great improvement in convenience. Given
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by simulate 13y ago
It would be interesting to learn how his son is doing today, six years later.
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Self-reported happiness measured on a log-scale to relative to income.(gravityandlevity.wordpress.com)
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Where the periodic table ends(gravityandlevity.wordpress.com)
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E coli related ER visits up since San Francisco restricted plastic grocery bags(economistsview.typepad.com)
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Do you network enough? A mathematical model to optimize personal interactions(hangingsteel.com)
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by simulate 14y ago
There is also an IDE for Mac, Linux, and Windows available here: http://forio.com/julia/downloads
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by simulate 14y ago
Official binaries available here free to download and install: https://github.com/textmate/textmate/downloads
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by simulate 14y ago
Julia is meant to be a competitor to R. The Julia developer community have added dataframes to compete with R Datasets and packages. See: http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/packages/packagelist/?hi... and: http://docs.julialang.org/en/l
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Julia language talk by lead developers in San Francisco(juliadatacienctists.eventbrite.com)
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by simulate 14y ago
Under "Statistical Analysis" the "Weighted-Mean" tag expected age is 72. Under "Mathematics" the "Non-Standard Analysis" tag expected age is 19. I suspect samples of 1 for each of these tags. This is fun to look at but I wouldn't base any c
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by simulate 14y ago
This is a good example of the law of small numbers. The PDF posted to Hacker News just five days ago provides an excellent explanation of why small countries would be at both the top and the bottom of this list. http://news.ycombinator.com
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by simulate 14y ago
The U.S. currently has better coverage than Europe. Only a handful of carriers are offering wifi in Europe. KLM, Air France are experimenting. Norwegian offers wifi. Lufthansa offers wifi on transatlantic flights. The reason for this is Gog
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by simulate 14y ago
David Mitchell has some insightful things to say about Mensa and those that choose to join the organization: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPMKqyaXtHI
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by simulate 14y ago
OPEC is a cartel intended to maintain a high price for oil. The US has been the second or third largest oil producer for decades, well ahead of all other OPEC countries except Saudi Arabia. See: http://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/index.cfm
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by simulate 14y ago
Duplicate from 3 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4540742

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