tigerthink

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by tigerthink 17y ago
>See above, re: "being smart". Were you not reading what I said? That "being smart" sentence was pretty convoluted, so I chose to interpret it as something I disagreed with just to be safe. :-)
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by tigerthink 17y ago
The amount of effort he was willing to put in to release free software amazes me.
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by tigerthink 17y ago
>I don't think hiding comment scores will have that effect, though it might make it more difficult to recognize when it happens. Comment scores make group beliefs far more obvious. Common knowledge of group beliefs is a necessary condi
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by tigerthink 17y ago
Please elaborate.
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by tigerthink 17y ago
It's true that comment-score information is interesting, but is it interesting for the right reasons? People are hardwired to have a morbid interest in the thinking of the tribe. Even if hackers consciously try to avoid paying undue atten
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by tigerthink 17y ago
Sounds like fun. I wonder though: if all he wanted to do was maximize his net worth, would he be better off hiring a statistics graduate student who knows R and training his replacement so he could go start another company?
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by tigerthink 17y ago
Then he's probably got a valuable perspective.
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by tigerthink 17y ago
The limiting reagent on my comprehension process is not the speed at which I can shove words through my eyes.
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by tigerthink 17y ago
Let's say we are arguing about the color of Mount Everest. Joe says it's blue and Mike says it's white. Would it be relevant to the debate if Joe had never in fact seen Mount Everest? In the same way, software advice that doesn't take the
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by tigerthink 17y ago
http://www.youtube.com/guitarsoloservice Garageband.
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by tigerthink 17y ago
Your question-answer format reminds me of Cornell Notes.
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by tigerthink 17y ago
>They created their controlled experiment by altering the algorithm the bank used to evaluate creditworthiness so that some borderline applicants were randomly denied loans while other otherwise identical applicants had loans approved.
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by tigerthink 17y ago
Mirrored from Google's cache: http://jottit.com/qykre/
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by tigerthink 17y ago
Right. Sorry.
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by tigerthink 17y ago
As mentioned above, Anki and Supermemo are two free implementations. As for ready-made flashcards, here are some I made for a calculus class: http://www.spicyelephant.com/decks/523 http://www.spicyelephant.com/decks/577 http://www.spi
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by tigerthink 17y ago
If someone can talk you out of being a writer, you're not a writer. This is the kind of stupid romanticism that pisses me off coming from writers.
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by tigerthink 17y ago
I'm voting for the fortunes divided option. Families can also grow exponentially.
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by tigerthink 17y ago
A computer game for the entire family: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UJ6yrDBS1E
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by tigerthink 17y ago
>And that's just drugs, what about the research itself, isn't it obvious it has implications well beyond any one single thing. And isn't that the case for every kind of research, not just medical? To me this seems obvious. I agree there
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by tigerthink 17y ago
>But I completely and totally disagree with your implication that more research will only marginal increase life spans Unless the research is directed at curing aging, aging will always cause people to get more and more susceptible to d
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by tigerthink 17y ago
>We got super lucky with HIV because you have to exchange bodily fluids to catch it. If it ever becomes as easy to catch as the common cold, we're screwed. If some asshole creates a contagious HIV, then discovering cures faster than dis
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by tigerthink 17y ago
Have you read this book? http://www.amazon.com/Hot-Zone-Terrifying-True-Story/dp/0385...
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by tigerthink 17y ago
>There are plenty of super viruses and bacteria in nature. Neither HIV nor MRSA came from biohacking. As I have said before, anything we create would be like just one more bullet in a machine gun shootout. Sure it could be the one that
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by tigerthink 17y ago
I watched the other half of the video. It was pretty good, but I didn't see anything relevant to our discussion. I'd appreciate it if you replied.
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by tigerthink 17y ago
Well, that's all the better in that case. You've got two radically different computer programs, and you only blow up if both of them go wrong. I'd feel much safer with that scheme than a scheme where the computer programs are similar beca
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by tigerthink 17y ago
My guess is that the value of the assets traded by Jane Street is much smaller than their bankroll. If the assets are something like 80% of the size of their bankroll I'd suggest doing a sanity check after every trade.
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by tigerthink 17y ago
>First of all, they cannot increase the latency of their software; in fact, as is explained in the presentation, they work hard to keep it as low as possible and to continue to lower it. An extra layer which must monitor everything woul
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by tigerthink 17y ago
>He explains that at the speed and volume with which they handle transactions, an error could cause them to disintegrate in a handful of milliseconds. Right. That's why you should have software monitoring things instead of a human. &#6
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by tigerthink 17y ago
I was confused when he mentioned the importance of code correctness. Wouldn't it be easy to write more software to monitor how your trading software is doing and intercede if it seems to be losing you a lot of money?
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by tigerthink 17y ago
According to stereotype, the causality flows the other way, and having more money is likely to get you a girlfriend or wife. I suspect the stereotype is somewhat wrong and that more money leads to more free time, which leads to more friend

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