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by wjnc 7y ago
Would you mind explaining how "step it up", which I read as "stepping up the dress code" is low-class? For me there is a natural progression from sports wear, to casual, to business casual, to business, to cocktail casua
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by wjnc 7y ago
PFAS sediments in ice and ground layers, coupled with the insight into how PFAS-materials are made via non-natural processes should do the trick for many million years to come.
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by wjnc 7y ago
Even tiny parties use eTickets over here. I looked one providor up. It uses Eventix.io
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by wjnc 7y ago
Funny that Groasis was founded in '03 while Tree T-PEE of Shark Tank fame was founded in '05. Similar inventions popping up at the same time is always fun to see in action.
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by wjnc 7y ago
I would disagree. Sentiment analysis is already there. Good text to speech too. Basically one needs to use them together to give the speech engine a clue towards the required sentiment and the speech engine enough samples to use different i
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by wjnc 7y ago
Incidents and accidents notwithstanding, those involved in calls with and modelling for analysts and rating agencies are well aware of these rules. At least in my firm there is proper compliance coaching and continual awareness programmes a
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by wjnc 7y ago
I read quite a lot of books thanks to suggestions on HN, so my thanks to all giving suggestions!
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by wjnc 7y ago
I see an About and a Privacy policy. Where do you think those are lacking or could be better?
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by wjnc 7y ago
Seriously, you expect him to not be Finnish or an EU inhabitant and there not going any EU euros into this project? And his point seems quite right. There are so many MOOCS in this segment, we don't need a government picking winners an
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by wjnc 7y ago
Good distinctions. For fiction I usually read without noticing the scaffolding too much. It's my way to go to sleep. Then I started reading the blog by Steven Erikson after a few Malazan books and noticed how much time he purports to s
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by wjnc 7y ago
Are there any reads you can recommend on how to recover from (possibly) failed experiments like these under pip / conda / linux in general? I've been doing R and Linux for two decades, but still am perfectly capable of totall
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by wjnc 7y ago
And it's arrogant (in a way) to think the people that hired you are blind fools for seeing potential where there's not. In other words: trust yourself. Bad hires happen but the bad hires are usually not the first to point that out
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by wjnc 7y ago
I agree. It's funny that the lack of attention of AMD to software / drivers (say Blas / MKL, CUDA) is holding the adoption of their silicon back in certain markets even after they've surpassed Intel in performance.
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by wjnc 7y ago
The most interesting thing for me is: how do you keep all those bright minds with enough knowledge and experience from striking out on their own either in academia or in business? At the end of the day creating new tech is hard, replicating
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by wjnc 7y ago
Interest in Germany: ~0-1%, expected inflation: 1-2%, terminal value: X unknown (but not 0). Just adding these parameters would change the conclusion of your valuation model significantly. Secondly losses are not subsidies. Subsidies are wh
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by wjnc 7y ago
Uhm, I would answer that as a Yes (but I think you would disagree). It'd be a subsistence level of existence for the several (tens of) millions of humans in existence in that scenario, but one with hardly any human impact on the global
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by wjnc 7y ago
In OP [1]. [1] https://machinelearningmastery.com/deep-learning-for-time-se...
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by wjnc 7y ago
If the ambulance takes 4 minutes more to get to the hospital, don't we expect it to get on scene 4, or at least a few, minutes later?
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by wjnc 7y ago
In NL we (mostly) insure cars, not drivers. My wife, my kids, even my neighbor or bookkeeper can drive my car and be insured. If they crash it's my premium that gets adjusted. So if someone catches them doing crazy stuff with my car, I
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by wjnc 7y ago
I agree. Thing is, most actuarial risk factors are really bad predictors individually. Combined though, they work enough for a functioning market. This would be just another factor. Don't exclude any of those license plates straight up
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by wjnc 7y ago
At least in NL the privacy authority (under GDPR) and courts (under former law) afaik have ruled a license plate is not personal information. Filming in public is legal. Insurance contracts are two party contracts where there is basically f
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by wjnc 7y ago
And now for the great thing ... Prophet uses Stan underneath [1] and thus is built on foundations of 'regular' Bayesian statistics. Andrew Gelman has written about Prophet as well [2]. After reading this blog I am tempted to get t
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by wjnc 7y ago
It is a little dream of mine to mine videos for crazy traffic behavior and sell the license plate numbers to insurers. Should be pretty simple, the uploaders even do the tagging for you. How to do that while complying with GDPR is a little
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by wjnc 7y ago
Great link, thanks. I do think I got the jist of it right? Fundamentally, a company proposes a method and the accountant, when applicable, under IFRS, allows for the method to be used when he signs the financial report. From my (risk manage
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by wjnc 7y ago
We would need an accountant for a proper answer to that question. My perception is that they look at changes more carefully than at continuing practices and that material changes above a certain threshold need to be mentioned in the yearly
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by wjnc 7y ago
To agree with this. As someone with more of a general economic and metrics background, I was quite amazed when I first learned of the breadth of possible valuation methods IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) allows for. Some
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by wjnc 7y ago
Yes, it looks like an attempt at predatory pricing. It didn't succeed though. I have no specific knowledge of US antitrust, but usually for predatory behavior to 'stick' you need to have market power to begin with. WeWork did
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by wjnc 7y ago
This is great. When German, English, French and Dutch go through a tumbler and no easy logic can be seen explaining the different uses and spellings. Motief, motive, motiv, motif. So motif [Eng] is based on motive [Fr] for repetitive (somet
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by wjnc 7y ago
It's quite a stretch to go from an argument on distributions to an argument on the best marginal use of ones time. Those in the right of the log normal curve have had to learn their skill as well. It's all about trade offs. The re
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by wjnc 7y ago
While I think this might be a good step in production work, it might be killing for firms in knowledge intensive industries. When this happens the first to move are the still employable and affordable youths. So the average age and salary m

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