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841.
by usgroup 8y ago
Thank you for the insight. I appreciate it.
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by usgroup 8y ago
I think so much maths comes from thinking about science; really self evident with the development of calculus, statistics, LA, formal logics, etc. It’s not like there is maths and there is science and it’s shocking that maths applies to sci
843.
by usgroup 8y ago
I’m feeling similarly this year too. There’s nothing wrong with HN as it is but it’s getting a bit trendy and a bit faddy for me and like OP i also feel drawn into responding to rubbish and wasting time. Perhaps the adult decision is to jus
844.
by usgroup 8y ago
Ok from what I can see Stockfish still rules? Is that right?
845.
by usgroup 8y ago
well that's easy; start at the worst crimes and make your way down until you run out of resources. The line will draw itself for you.
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by usgroup 8y ago
I would still love to see the Stockfish team go up against the AlphaZero team, with the Stockfish team being allowed to modify their code however they need to in order to get the performance they need for the event. I think they should agre
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by usgroup 8y ago
Except once they catch him they have to charge him and then prosecute him and then house him in prison and then release him with even worse prospects then he started with, so that he can go back to stealing. I think that there is no economi
848.
by usgroup 8y ago
TLDR : thieves often get away with crime because resources are limited, and smarter thieves play into it. However I hardly think that concerntrating power is a solution nor that this is really a problem that needs to be solved by finding he
849.
by usgroup 8y ago
You epic human, thank you for this :) the soup bit made me laugh out loud .
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by usgroup 8y ago
Well, if that's what you want just use Prolog; everything you need is there including a huge number of libraries and a web application framework. Although I personally don't understand why anyone would want to do this ... If you a
851.
by usgroup 8y ago
If you want to know for real in a way that’s relevant to your life just try and apply for a few quant positions right now with what you have. Chase for feedback and investigate for yourself whether your education level was a factor. This wi
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by usgroup 8y ago
I’m not sure what spirit this is written in but as the author notes it absolutely doesn’t generalise. Actually it generalises less and less the smaller your company and the more critical your focus and USP is to survival.
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by usgroup 8y ago
I expect the bitcoin case will remain dubious to the SEC because Bitcoin has no fundamentals. I.e no relationship to anything tangible. Further, volume on unregulated exchanges does effect price on regulated ones ... so you don’t have to ma
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by usgroup 8y ago
Thank you for finding this ; I’m really grateful . I’ve been looking for a decent book on the topic . For those still tinkering with analog computers, could you recommend a setup for a beginner? Something that’d let me build real things tha
855.
by usgroup 8y ago
I think this is accurate. Few businesses have the slack required to hire a speculative research division to delight and surprise the business with new capabilities :) More typically DS will optimise . I think engagement bandits, recommendat
856.
by usgroup 8y ago
It turns out science requires really careful thinking ... who would have thought? I think that funding and publishing pressure turns the already hard problem of doing good science into a Pareto optimisation between do science, publish, get
857.
by usgroup 8y ago
Dependent on what you’re doing, consider using wikidata instead. Has a SPARQL interface that’s easy to query.
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by usgroup 8y ago
Tbh I see that sort of academia as tantamount to abuse or exploitation. A close friend was a nueroscientist. I got to watch her PI push her into 70 hour weeks and then guilt trip her for not doing more. I watched her PI extend her PhD for a
859.
by usgroup 8y ago
Yup... make it from scratch, or use it in a non trivial project, or try and do some original research with it. All three above will get you asking questions and seeing the thing from angles you wouldn’t have thought about otherwise. It’ll a
860.
by usgroup 8y ago
You should be fine, but I suggest asking yourself whether you’ll be able to go into a normal job. Some things once known cannot be unknown : you’ve seen how the sausages are made ....
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by usgroup 8y ago
ggplot2 is a solid dsl example. Use it with margrittr. I agree with this in the main unfortunately ... I was a proponent of DSLs and did my best to try make them whenever practical. The only pattern that’s worked out for me is the builder p
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by usgroup 8y ago
Make a small cluster and test stuff on it ... like anything else. Most of the scalability stuff is about failure modes and how your system responds to it; so you don’t need stress tests for that. Know the properties of your system. Eg what
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by usgroup 8y ago
Oh man ... how deeply disappointing.
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by usgroup 8y ago
Sure and then google release “kubelite” or some guy writes a convenience script and there goes your competitive advantage for the use case :) Docker didn’t have enough of an advantage even though Swarm game shipped with it, so de facto if y
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by usgroup 8y ago
Swarm was a pretty big mistake. I think based on just relative resource investment compared to Kube, it ought to have been obvious that it’d never be relevant if it wasn’t extremely specialised.
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by usgroup 8y ago
I’d call what you want to do “teach yourself maths as a foreign language”. It can very much be done because I did it. If I could do it all again, I’d start with an old school Calculus course. E.g “Calculus” by Binmore . It’s a decent and we
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by usgroup 8y ago
OP is referring to “Chartists” and technical analysis. If you google about for Bitcoin analysis this is unfortunately the sort of stuff that still comes up, sometimes even on Bloomberg . Your Bloomberg terminal will happily draw RSI, MACD,
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by usgroup 8y ago
Not to be a sceptic but you can’t do this ... you can’t optimise algorithms in Excel. I mean you can; you can do whatever you want but what needs to be done is a lot harder than this.
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by usgroup 8y ago
Are there really people out there who can create profitable automated trading strategies with all that involves, but can’t code? Presumably they can’t test either and arent too hot on maths? Who are these people?!
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by usgroup 8y ago
I think it’s often a forgone conclusion that mathematical brilliance not born of a just hard work and normal ability often comes as a specialisation rather than as a superhuman power. I.e. genius to normal intellect is what a GPU is to a CP

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