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by starwind 4y ago
One of the professors, Dan Stefanica edits a book series on mathematics for financial engineering http://www.fepress.org/fin_eng_background_series/ I've been waiting for the probability and differential equations
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by starwind 4y ago
I went data science to data engineering and been very happy. You may have trouble moving into backend development direct from data science because data scientists don't have a reputation for writing solid maintable code so data enginee
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by starwind 4y ago
I made this same transition from data science to data engineering about 18 months ago and I've never looked back. I hated working with bad code and dealing with arrogant phds who don't value good code. I've seen so many terri
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by starwind 4y ago
From SNL: Start-up airline Boom Supersonic has announced it is going to fly passengers anywhere in the world in four hours or less for just a hundred dollars. So get ready to fly fast and cheap on the only airline named after the sound of a
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by starwind 4y ago
Not true, string theory made numerous testable predictions of what particles LHC should detect at different energy levels. AFAIK none of the predictions unique to string theory and it's different branches have panned out. At this point
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by starwind 4y ago
Our current understanding of gravitational lensing and the speed of galaxy rotations would both suggest that we're between 80-90% of the mass in the universe. It's important to note the missing mass calculated via lensing and the
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by starwind 4y ago
Curious, I googled "In the radio astronomy of Pulsars we find that the shorter wavelengths of the leading edge of the pulse arrive before longer wavelengths. The velocity of light, c, is NOT constant but varies by wavelength" and
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by starwind 4y ago
I'm sure that's exactly what happened here. You can opt out of that but it's a pain in the ass and some companies make it so you have to do it for each merchant
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by starwind 4y ago
> gaping OpSec hole you have that resulted in the disclosure of your card number to a third party You mean like the server I hand my credit card to to pay my check at dinner?
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by starwind 4y ago
Does this relate to the Krebs cycle running backwards thing that was talked about earlier this week? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32392937
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by starwind 4y ago
> Smart people will on average probably be better of financially, but that doesn't transfer directly to happiness. eh, not exactly true: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2016976118 > But what if yo
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by starwind 4y ago
I’ve seen some other studies that say the opposite and I’m generally skeptical of results that come out of the GSS (it’s too easy to data dredge). There’s a decent amount of evidence that IQ positively correlates with happiness. Here’s a st
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by starwind 4y ago
oh interesting. When the article said he was in first gear and the poster above mentioned a handbreak I assumed he had a stick
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by starwind 4y ago
You're right. If you ever lose your brakes get the car in neutral and try to coast to a stop. That said, he had his foot on the brake so I assume he had the clutch in
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by starwind 4y ago
> I see so many people with depressing faces every day, it's hard to deny that we have widespread psychological sanity issues in our society. No society in history has ever had so much abundance as the West today. We've really
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by starwind 4y ago
> this is only because I will be locked out of access to certain essential financial products as the result of having no credit history. Pretty much every bank offers a credit card with a 1% cash-back rewards rate and their underwriters
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by starwind 4y ago
As I understand it: before gravity captures light--which moves as fast as anything can move--gravity will have captured everything else and overcame all other repulsive forces crushing the matter into a singularity edit: pixl97 made a reall
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by starwind 4y ago
really interesting point about hypersonics and plasmas. Developments in aviation have trickled down and led to other developments in technology—tons of work in modern control theory, material sciences, and aerodynamics was originally motiva
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by starwind 4y ago
Deep geothermal energy. Here's the best explanatory video I've seen: https://youtu.be/8erbvqFZ9M8?t=50 Caveat, I have no idea if these guys can do it but someone can. At this stage, it's about getting done it
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by starwind 4y ago
Worked in defense so I have thoughts. Warning: it's a slow moving business. Lots of subcontractors do cool stuff with modern tech stacks but the bigger companies--think BAE--are dinosaurs. Defense touches a lot of different aspects of
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by starwind 4y ago
The Coase Theorem in action...
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by starwind 4y ago
> The Air Force has even opened its own venture capital arm and is actively investing in small businesses. In-Q-Tel is the VC arm of the CIA. I've never directly done a deal with them but the employees I've met seem really nice
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by starwind 4y ago
NBER seems to emphasize changes in Real Personal Income and the unemployment rate when they identify recessions.
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by starwind 4y ago
Not yet exploited: I'm a big fan of deep bore geothermal energy using a closed loop. Here's an example from a company trying to make it work. Idk if they can actually do it but it can def be done by a large enough entity. https
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by starwind 4y ago
On multiple occasions I've emailed back and asked to be put on a "do-not-contact" list but it never works :/ After replying to FB recruiters asking to be taken off their contact list one finally added a note to my file s
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by starwind 4y ago
> Apple are saying "we will protect you from state actors", which is a role usually performed by states Not to sound flippant, but defense attorneys do this, too. I don't think it's as big a zeitgeist as you think
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by starwind 4y ago
> Here's the thing about conspiracies: they have a shelf life. The amount of time you can keep a conspiracy secret is bounded by the number of conspirators, how well you can get them to shut up, and how long it has been since the co
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by starwind 4y ago
Excellent point. As a matter of legal principle in the United States you can't unilaterally disclaim liability for future injuries. Signs that say "not responsible for accidents on these premises" don't hold up when you
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by starwind 4y ago
I've always been shocked at how crappy the research into nutrition is and how there's very little consensus beyond "vegetables are good" and how shoddy a lot of the professional training is for dieticians. Nearly everybo
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by starwind 4y ago
You are correct. It's likely that the majority of humans have been lactose intolerant for human history. It's primarily people of Northern European descent that are not lactose intolerant, but lactose intolerance is very common ou

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