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by spitfire 10y ago
This seems to be a case of you have to learn the rules like the back of your hand before you can break them. Once you know the rules, you know how to break them Personally, I dodge the bullet by simply going for Bauhaus. Farnsworth >
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by spitfire 10y ago
This (along with the Burroughs B5000 architecture) are my favourite computers of all time. I have the book form of his thesis on my shelf right next to Knuth and Kenya Hara. I feel like junior people should be given a tour of the greatest h
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by spitfire 10y ago
Are you sure about that? I'm not sure heroin addiction has much price elasticity...
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by spitfire 10y ago
Yes! That'd be appropriate. However, I still think vulture capitalists will somehow find a way to turn it into an old boys club (made from young boys' dreams) again. Human nature being what it is, we love a hero myth. I do have to
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by spitfire 10y ago
Yeah. So I watched through until the end. I feel like you should definitely study areas outside the well trodden nerd-bait paths. Then judiciously steal those ideas (works for PG, repackaging an explanation of portfolio investing). Unfortun
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by spitfire 10y ago
So there's a lot of very-smart in the video, but it's a bit of a ramble with no actual clear description of the idea. Maybe you could add in a 30 second explainer at the start of the video. First tell them what you're going t
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by spitfire 10y ago
Don't forget HP also bought Tandem. Who were doing big distributed systems (including a distributed SQL database) in the 1980's. Thankfully, HP keeps their technical documents database online[1]. Including the classic five minute
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by spitfire 10y ago
That's a good idea, maybe the Baazar needs a good fire. Fires help forests stay healthy returning a lot of biomass for new healthy forests to grow. Maybe the ecosystem needs a good fire to clear out the diseased old growth?
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by spitfire 10y ago
Read the book and find out! The Volvo story is also worth reading. Correction: Video Seven story. http://www.jagregory.com/abrash-black-book/#chapter-64-quake...
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by spitfire 10y ago
The technical knowledge in it is both out of date, and more relevant than ever. The particular details are long since irrelevant - even in 1996 optimizing for the 8086 was irrelevant. But the thought process, approach and lessons learnt fro
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by spitfire 10y ago
This was Chapter 68 (!) in Michael Abrash's very excellent Black book of graphics programming. I still have my copy, and it's still relevant today.
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by spitfire 10y ago
Didn't see that. Man it's good to be a middle-man! Screw the skills business, I'm setting up a general store on the frontier.
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by spitfire 10y ago
Unfortunately their platform has all the commoditization pressures as things like elance. Looking around at projects, it looks like you're be competing against 18-30 other people on any particular project. No thanks.
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by spitfire 10y ago
That is a question worth answering. But now we have reasonable ground to make statements one way or the other. I personally think yes, they'll saturate their market fairly quickly from here on out. Also, I expect they'll start att
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by spitfire 10y ago
A fairly simple DCF[1] based on public numbers. First the basic numbers. From public data[2] in 2015 AirBnB did at least $360M in revenue, expecting to hit $900M by the end of that year. They never disclosed if they did hit that number, but
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by spitfire 10y ago
I'm with you all the way. That is the world I want to live in as well. I simply think the real it turns out somewhat different. Sadly.
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by spitfire 10y ago
"Underwriters Laboratory" for devices is such a good idea. This is a world I want to live in. I can imagine warnings like "mothership required", "Uses personal information", etc.
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by spitfire 10y ago
> A REST endpoint that supports a few well defined routes for discovery of routes and descriptions of them, as well as a route to return the entire configuration for backup, might work better We called that SNMP. Unfortunately, it was em
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by spitfire 10y ago
Yes, but this is a quantitative way to measure those things. "Smart and gets things done" leaves the door for touchy feely interpretations, which leaves the door open for gaming the system.
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by spitfire 10y ago
I'll post to this thread because this is very relevant for the hiring companies. Hunter and Schmit did a meta-study of 85 years of research on hiring criteria. [1] There are three attributes you need to select for to identify perfor
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by spitfire 10y ago
SEEKING WORK Canada, Remote I'm a data scientist with more than 10 years experience in machine learning and analytics. I focus on thorny problems for business, the sort that IF they can be solved will move the needle in real ways. Some
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by spitfire 10y ago
> My current Q "algo" or whatever we call it (it's a ensemble of multiple "algos") actually has almost every layer you describe (although not using the same methods you describe) and some extra layers you don&#x2
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by spitfire 10y ago
What I mean by stages are independent pieces of code that receive information from higher or lower levels and make decisions based on them. each of these stages will also have their own monitoring in place - what you monitor at the risk sta
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by spitfire 10y ago
The problem is they have NO pipeline, just end algorithms. So if you want even simple risk management tools like tripwires, those have to be included explicitly in each algorithm. It's like programming in BASIC on a Commodore-64 all
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by spitfire 10y ago
Because algorithms and risk/portfolio management are totally different spheres. You don't want to complect your trading algorithm with your risk management, portfolio allocation or order/execution management systems. And that
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by spitfire 10y ago
Monkeys on typewriters is right. Quantopian always had some major red flags with it. I always figured they were just a play to develop algorithms for someone else. They only focus on the trading algorithms with no support whatsoever for por
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http://berkshirehathaway.com
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by spitfire 10y ago
Tokenadult isn't around to chime in here, so I'll take his place today. Hunter and Schmit did a meta-study of 85 years of research on hiring criteria. [1] There are three attributes you need to select for to identify performing em
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by spitfire 10y ago
You can be or you can do. Right now we're in a phase (with lots of cheap money) where it's better to be. When the money becomes harder to scratch out it'll be better to be able to do. I like this quote by John Boyd, who wrote
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by spitfire 10y ago
SEEKING WORK Canada, Remote I'm a data scientist with more than 10 years experience in machine learning and analytics. I focus on thorny problems for business, the sort that IF they can be solved will move the needle in real ways. Some

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