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by tw1010 9y ago
Is there any way for someone not particularly knowledgable about all this stuff to just trade identically to some reputable investor? To just hook onto his or her wisdom and experience? (Maybe at a small fee?)
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by tw1010 9y ago
This is a natural response to the incentive structure that has evolved. But fear not, the fact that this metric is being overemphasized to this large a degree surely must mean that the adversarial species (the industry) will respond by chan
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by tw1010 9y ago
Small bits of basic knowledge accumulates to great things over time. I doubt the researchers intended their paper to be as clickbait-y as the title of the NYT article sounds. But this individual contribution is probably not something worth
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by tw1010 9y ago
One model to overfit it all
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by tw1010 9y ago
I get what you're saying. Quoting this in a discussion will likely bring more harm than good. But on the other hand, this is just research. If uncomfortable facts surface, we need to be ok with that. All areas need to be studied, inclu
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by tw1010 9y ago
I wonder why it is that articles written from way back when very often seem to have a way higher average quality than the stuff written today. I'm not sure the sole reason is that the only thing that survives is the high quality stuff,
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by tw1010 9y ago
I just have this feeling a lot of anti-snapchat news or comments are either biased as a function of investing in competing companies, or is a consequence of having their head way too far up the adult, linkedin, world to know what is really
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by tw1010 9y ago
"If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed."
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Judging by how well-informed he was later in life, I think he reversed his opinion on the subject a lot later on.
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It feels like the fact that this is a bayesian-favoured study is some kind of sign that people (i.e. people that are upvoting, not necessarily the researchers) are actually taking that silly bayesian vs frequentist political war thing serio
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by tw1010 9y ago
Product Manager
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So the problem is the signal-vs-noise ratio. There exists good stuff out there, you just need to know where to look. But maybe we're underestimating the impact of a low SNR. After all, life 500 years ago was also great, you just needed
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Evolutionary Game Theory(science4all.org)
3 points by tw1010 9y ago|0 comments
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Man, given that some youtube channels get ~5 million per day, isn't ~85 million per day using snapchat kind of low? I would expect way more than only 20x interaction with snapchat than with one-man shows like that. 20 big channels and
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by tw1010 9y ago
The fact that this was a story, then stopped being a story, and is now a thing again, with no interaction on my end, makes me sleep much better at night. Stop caring about the variables you can't control, and you'll live a better
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by tw1010 9y ago
Funny, I just read Andre Weils biography, and one thing that stood out about it was that he spent a lot of time learning sanskrit. I wonder if there's a connection between this and his massive intellect.
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"Steep learning curve. Scores of authors use the phrase “steep learning curve” or “sharp learning curve” in reference to a skill that is difficult to master. For example, when referring to the difficulty of learning a complex surgical
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I'm not sure it's here to stay though. The older I get, the more comfortable I and those around me seems to become at interacting with other human beings.
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These are the types of fun details that are totally going to be part of future history lessons (no matter which direction, positive or negative, all of this is heading towards).
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I would argue that the reason QM is expressed in linear algebra is also not a mysterious property of LA, but because that is what was part of the physicists curriculum when the field was developed.
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That has less to do with some mysterious fact about eigenvectors, and more to do with the fact that linear algebra is incredibly incredibly well studied and understood; with octopus arms sticking into every special case of applied mathemati
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by tw1010 9y ago
Would people be ok with advertisements and price being segregated by race back in the 80s? They say they don't use race as a feature, but the variables they do use could easily be correlated with it (e.g. location). The only reason peo
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Homotopy Type Theory and Higher Inductive Types(science4all.org)
119 points by tw1010 9y ago|31 comments
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by tw1010 9y ago
I don't understand much about the blockchain, but one thing I have heard is that it's impossible (or very hard) to remove things from it. It is immutable, sort of append only, if I understand it correctly. So my question is, is th
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by tw1010 9y ago
WebGL has been around for quite a while now, but I never see any websites using it. Surely they exist somewhere? What have I been missing? Anyone have a good source of links to things using WebGL?
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Also weird that they chose to use the phrase "world leader" instead of president or country leader or something like that. There aren't really that many world leaders around. So Twitter can still prevent the leader of some
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The closest thing to feeling like I had a genuine superpower came after I studied a bunch of pure mathematics – the (richly interconnected, actually conceptually easier to manipulate after you've grown accustomed to them) building bloc
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Yes. But I had heard of the news story about them starting to archive twitter. If I hadn't, maybe I would be more confused. Why would the library of congress quit twitter, I thought, and why would it even be a worthy enough event to wa
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by tw1010 9y ago
Misleading, maybe, but I don't think many were confused about the actual meaning of the headline (I certainly wasn't).
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It feels like a lot of people are saying, through distorted lenses, that it is understandable that he didn't become the next big tech leader because this or that reason. (Almost as if they "knew all along that this would happen&qu

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