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by stygiansonic 5y ago
This article suggests at least some are making quite a bit of money: https://www.forbes.com/sites/chrissmith/2018/09/11/college-f... What is that article missing if your assertion is true?
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by stygiansonic 6y ago
From the article: “ In other words, this had nothing to do with code obfuscation or minification. My extension would still include the violating strings even if it were published without processing the source code in any way, simply because
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Robinhood needed a 1B cash injection(daringfireball.net)
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by stygiansonic 6y ago
Thanks for this extremely detailed write up. I also appreciated the tips on compressing the dynamic range of audio.
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by stygiansonic 6y ago
This is a great example of using statistical inference to solve a problem at scale. However I had one question: Since this using Bayesian inference, how was the prior over the parameters p_f and p_b determined? I could not tell from reading
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by stygiansonic 6y ago
I believe Synology NAS units support most of that. The price may not be comparable to something you could build yourself, but for those that want a turnkey solution, it's a viable option.
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Microsoft to Make ARM CPUs(bloomberg.com)
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Levels.fyi 2020 Annual Pay Report(levels.fyi)
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Facebook blasts Apple in new ads over iPhone privacy change(cnbc.com)
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Zodiac ‘340 Cypher’ Cracked(sfchronicle.com)
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by stygiansonic 6y ago
Direct link to the original blog post the new article is referencing: https://googlewalkout.medium.com/setting-the-record-straight...
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by stygiansonic 6y ago
For those wondering, the term "shoe-leather epidemiology" typically means work in the field undertaken as an immediate response to an outbreak: https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/172/6/737&#x2
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Alan Smithee(en.wikipedia.org)
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by stygiansonic 6y ago
Funding the public education system is a good thing and a similar system exists in California: https://www.calottery.com/who-benefits However OPs point about mostly lower socioeconomic groups funding the lottery is still re
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UPS places shipping limits on some retailers(cnbc.com)
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by stygiansonic 6y ago
The 95% effectiveness value is based on the risk ratio: https://sphweb.bumc.bu.edu/otlt/mph-modules/ep/ep713_associa... From this comment, which summarized the statistics of the phase 3 trial: https:/&#
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by stygiansonic 6y ago
Unless I'm missing something, the "Hemingway Mode" in ghostwriter is not the same as the feature offered by the other editor: " Clicking on the "Hemingway" button in the lower right corner of the editor will di
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by stygiansonic 6y ago
A lot of comments are claiming this study shows that exercise is good for your health. Though I generally agree with that premise, that is NOT what the results of this study show. The abstract and visual abstract clearly state this. - The R
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by stygiansonic 6y ago
Seems like randomware negotiation has become a professional service. See: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/groupsense-launches... The negotiations here were similar to the ones CWT had, albeit a little less cou
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MEC to be acquired by private U.S. investment firm(cbc.ca)
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CNN report finds Amazon's own products are being flagged as fire hazards(cnn.com)
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by stygiansonic 6y ago
The kicker is that such a submission should be generated by GPT-3 itself
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by stygiansonic 6y ago
Sorry, I had a few typos and can’t edit. Gamma is the rate of change of delta w.r.t the underlying price. For example OTM calls have a delta close to 0. As the underlying price increases the delta will increase. When the underlying price re
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by stygiansonic 6y ago
To clarify it’s actually the second derivative of the options price w.r.t the underlying price, whereas “delta” is the first derivative of the same. (So gamma is the rate of change of delay w.r.t the options price since delta is not constan
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by stygiansonic 6y ago
Decreasing the tick size is not automatically a better situation. Take for example the "hide not slide" order type offered by some exchanges several years ago[1]. Due to the liquidity rebates offered by exchanges (essentially get
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Robinhood is reportedly under SEC investigation(cnbc.com)
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by stygiansonic 6y ago
Delivery gig arbitrage. Now how long before the cash flow from such operations is securitized and sold off? </sarcasm>
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Oppau Explosion(en.wikipedia.org)
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by stygiansonic 6y ago
From the article: “ Each of the 911's lighting units includes 84 individually controlled LEDs that allow the car to continuously morph the pattern of its beams. When a car approaches in the oncoming lane, the 911's headlights dim
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by stygiansonic 6y ago
If we are being needlessly pedantic, the traditional US definition of a "republic" is a democracy, but just not a direct democracy (I'm not aware of any modern countries that are), which I suspect is what you were trying to

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