throwawaymath

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by throwawaymath 7y ago
> Hotz tweeted from the official Comma.ai account that rather than providing the requisite response, the company would instead be cancelling Comma One entirely, and turning its attention to “other products and markets,” since Hotz says
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
In my opinion the central thesis of this article is obscured by its framework of first vs higher order facts and thinking. The article states its real point quite simply: > You must temper your desire to jump to conclusions, explore the
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
Sure, but that's not really my point. I don't really care about Google or Oracle here. I'm saying that Google is spinning it really well, regardless of whether the spin is justified, so that the framing of their position is m
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
What great PR speak. The core topic of the article is an update in the ongoing copyright legal dispute between Oracle and Google. But the title and opening paragraph invoke an ethos of justice, which inherently frames Google as a valiant ch
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
Yes. That's really common when someone very senior at a FAANG wants to achieve a greater level of autonomy and "impact". Once you hit L5/L6 at Google/Facebook (or equivalent elsewhere), the promotion rate slows down
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
Well, not really. Look back at the salary levels from the levels.fyi PDF. Most people downleveled from senior will end up one or two levels up from new grad. That puts you below the numbers from my comment, but not by a whole lot! And after
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
You mean like downleveling? Sure, that happens a lot. The top paying companies mostly only consider engineers from similarly high paying companies to be known quantities. So if you are a staff engineer at a smaller tech company or a startup
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
I don't think your analysis is correct. Or at least, it's really incomplete and thereby misleading. I'm going to use hard numbers as someone who lives in one of the highest COL areas, but I want to emphasize I'm doing th
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
Yeah, I agree with the idea that if you trudge through radioactive ideas you'll find some diamonds in the rough. But you'll have to really dig through some radioactive crap for it; a lot of what's outside the Overton Window i
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
> If you have opinions you're reluctant to share among peers without wording it carefully, and you've spent a lot of time thinking very carefully about the topic, then there's a pretty good chance you're an interesti
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
And also ironic, given the subject matter of this particular article (contrarianism as empowering idea generator). Once upon a time, similar thinkpieces extolled the virtues of asking candidates to introspect on their greatest weakness. How
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
Absurd is a really strong word. I will say that I really doubt he'd blog about his ideas instead of just publishing them, even on arXiv, because all the examples of groundbreaking new work in the modern era have been blogged about cont
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
Okay...but Einstein didn't write a blog. He published a paper for peer review. Some of his ideas remained controversial for decades, but he had a sufficiently mature, cogent and well-specified theory that he could at least work through
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
Look into matrix profiles and associated algorithms.
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
Read the blogs and articles published by AQR.
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
Out of curiosity, what's the work life balance like for your team?
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
Possibly, I no longer do that work. But that was never the price I saw for the service. Cheapest I ever saw was still 10 times that, and requests frequently had to be resent due to spotty completion.
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
Captchas are not "a bit of an illusion." In the past I ran very large, bespoke data mining campaigns, and ReCaptcha was continually a source of annoyance. My usual response to seeing ReCaptcha was to work on a different project or
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
Having written code to bypass captchas, up to and including Google ReCaptcha: yes, there is a difference. A large difference. $5 per request is not a negligible amount of money. In practice it doesn't cost anywhere near that amount t
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
Just to make sure I understand you correctly: you don't believe there exist any drugs which can permanently alter the psyche of an individual, up to and including psychosis?
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
Okay that's a fair point, my experience has only been with funded PhDs.
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
For most people, a university is the most time-efficient method of gaining education in any given technical topic. It's not guaranteed to be the most cost-efficient , but I don't see a defensible argument that the resources of a
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
How did you form this opinion? Family wealth has almost nothing to do with an individual's financial ability to do a PhD. You don't pay tuition and you receive nominal wages to support yourself. It's not a tech salary, and th
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
I never used Excel, except to present reports. Data warehousing and analysis all took place with SQL and an RDBMS.
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
I found it to be very intellectually satisfying and creative! But there were parts to the job which were also very boring, including cleaning data. Cleaning data took up probably about as much time as all the fun analysis and exploration.
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
Sure, individual models are transitory and don't last very long (relatively speaking). But I'm also not debating that point.
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
No, I mean places like RenTech and TGS. But I'll humor your implied point: LCTM's failings have nothing to do with the core thesis I'm rebutting, which is that the only value in financial trading is provided by shady backroom
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
Sure, but you're not describing the way hypotheses are developed at DE Shaw, PDT, etc. I'm not debating that happens at places which focus (even if only ostensibly) on fundamental analysis.
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
The top quant funds perform exceptionally well even through bear markets. That's a fact and a matter of public record. Likewise the funds which rely on alternative data the most aren't even primarily quantitative in their strategi
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by throwawaymath 7y ago
Can also confirm this - the research team I used to work on was just three people. We worked directly with some 30 or so funds, successfully, including Citadel and Two Sigma.

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