tombone12

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No, even with HFT the instantaneous liquidity of the market is firmly in the volatile regime, by orders of magnitude. So while HFT adds some liquidity, its very far off from bringing anything like enough to make markets more stable and it d
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Trying to protect against another mortgage meltdown is just ambulance chasing, at current liquidity markets are inherently unstable and highly sensitive to the number of trades[1]. Since HFT artificially drives up the number of trades, but
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Physics is like exploring properties of a set where you are given a relation between individual elements of the set. Physical intuition us the knowledge of general relations that can be expected to hold for all elements. If you don't w
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No, it explicitly states that it only removes that which benefit the poor in regards to their relation with the rich.
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Except that in advanced economies most people are not primarily motivated by potential future income when "choosing" their profession, an many people do not consider it much at all (just look at people choosing to study literature
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Not everything can be automated, but there is certainly at least some machine learning in all of the larger surveys these days. As to dark matter surveys explicitly, I found this one: http://kids.strw.leidenuniv.nl/pr_july20
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What, which rights we foreigners have that the USA actually respect in practice is not important for judging how relevant American values are to the rest of the world?
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Look, the fact is that the suspect was never a terrorist, nor harbored concrete plans of violence. From this follows that at no point during this debacle did they have real evidence of a terrorist plot! The intelligence they had can at best
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"This is not to say that Chinese government regulation drove Uber’s deal with Didi, which was clobbering Uber in the ride-sharing market; in fact, Uber felt it was treated fairly by a government interested in transportation innovation.
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Man look at you go telling other people how to live their life! Who are you that get to dictate what a "real" scientist can do? And there ain't even such a thing as a "scientist", they be all sort of different folk,
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You entirely miss the point! The point is that in supervised learning for example, if you optimize prediction accuracy with respect to your human generated examples, you will get a model that exactly reproduces the racist judgment of the hu
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"Tip: While couriers will come in store to pick up the delivery, the most successful users of UberRUSH conduct curbside handoffs. By eliminating the time required for your courier to park and find the handoff spot, you can have your de
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Good place for a radio telescope though. And you can probably sell observation of known radio sources to the Russians and Chinese for a bit of money; I imagine it is useful for something to know the site properties of a NSA listening statio