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by wjnc 11y ago
Any thoughts on why genetic programming is not 'in fashion'? Does it have anything to do with complexity of the calculations? I can imagine that the advanced models use many, many machines and only deliver results after a large tr
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by wjnc 11y ago
Several letters / positions in ones name are pretty highly correlated with several ethnic groups. So many automated systems knowing names, would use this information, and act in an illegal way. So totally true and a reason why unmanage
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by wjnc 11y ago
My first thought is: so now I am relying on a company that basicly provides me free services for security audits of other companies, some of which I pay for the services they deliver. (Last one is a stretch.) Of course, I rely on many free
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by wjnc 11y ago
Life or SLT business? Then I'm truly impressed. Any links? P&C on the backend is imho a few orders of magnitude simpler (although I enjoy the statistics there more). 30 to 50 year complex contracts and then try to manage your marke
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by wjnc 11y ago
Yeah, I am from the industry as well. We just keep piling on more machines for Prophet, with pretty nasty runtimes. But you know whats harder? Splitsing development between actuaries and programmers
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by wjnc 11y ago
It seems like a nice and modern stack to work with. Anything on adoption in the industry? It's a niche market with firms very-very reluctant to switch software and very-very long development cycles. Some googling led me to Edlund, whic
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by wjnc 11y ago
It's a bit snarky, but tax payers around the world are thankful for having to pay additional taxes for your privilige. In the sense that the freedoms you enjoy financially in Switzerland have enabled massive tax-dodging worldwide. Half
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by wjnc 11y ago
I had the same question. One thing that crossed my mind is that if speeds like these are possible, you could let the spaceship fly a gigantic loop and slow it down on the way back to earth. Same laser for acceleration and deceleration. (Thi
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by wjnc 11y ago
I dare say that in the various fields within finance, this skill is the true one-upmanship. A good working memory and enough calculatory skills to quickly glance over numbers and models to spot errors and interesting results pretty much def
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by wjnc 11y ago
If you want to practice skills like these, try: Street-Fighting Mathematics [1] and The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering by Sanjoy Mahajan (MIT) [2]. Free downloads via: [1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/stre
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by wjnc 11y ago
No, they have a different risk-reward structure. They finance those firms that probably cannot issue debt. They take equity for their funding. That's what parent is saying. Once you are in the league of issuing debt, you probably want
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by wjnc 11y ago
I upvoted, and not thanks to the Enters :) I see DF mostly as a work of genius, like TempleOS. DF has a more practical way of touching me (like your sentiment: "it could be the best game ever") than TempleOS, but both are great fe
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by wjnc 11y ago
I agree and while I have no reason to doubt the science regarding measurement, this quote is telling: "“It is possible that these people already have a different brain and they are more likely to use cannabis.” That point is, AFAIK, th
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by wjnc 11y ago
It's often a lot cheaper, at least in the Netherlands, to buy an unused banking license than to actually jump through all the hoops to get a new license. Reading this, this regulator seems to have a lot of leeway to propose arbitrary r
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by wjnc 11y ago
Don't you think exactly from lower to upper middle class, what most non-financials first need in a financial advice is Knowledge-Made-Simple? People hardly budget, don't plan, don't know how much their non-financial assets de
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by wjnc 11y ago
That depends on who issued the debt and what happened after that. If WD issued the debt, they could use that incoming cash to pay the old stockholders to gain the shares in SanDisk. That would be a real cash outflow. Bigger company after th
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by wjnc 11y ago
The thing with the Dutch adoption rate is indeed the use of public television for massive pitching of the product. He had an 'Oprah book club' opening and executed succesfully.
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by wjnc 11y ago
I work as an actuary and are somewhat used to seeing calculations like these. They often point to very large tail risks, for example in catastrophe modelling like windstorm, or in this case violent conflict. What makes me somewhat doubt the
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by wjnc 11y ago
Introduction in Extreme Value Theory [1] [1] http://www2.meteo.uni-bonn.de/projekte/SPPMeteo/wiki/lib/exe...
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Payments company Adyen valued at $2.3bn after Iconiq injection(ft.com)
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by wjnc 11y ago
A thing with this study is that they measure survival mostly in an age bracket with relatively low chance of death, but also in a bracket where chances of death by accidents due to lifestyle are relatively high. A base death rate of 2.2 per
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by wjnc 11y ago
I actually had fun both reading the piece and the way the article doubles-up on itself (going "Down the Rabbit Hole" by practicing annotation in an article on annotation). Refreshing. Not something that fits in any article and per
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by wjnc 11y ago
<i'd love to see specific examples of what you are thinking about> IANAL, but here goes: In The Netherlands certain clauses in TOS ('algemene voorwaarden') are void by default when they are against a limited list writte
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by wjnc 11y ago
How hard would it be to strengthen a Linux-system to make the browser operate with less rights in order to give an attacker less access to the /etc/* folders? Because that seems to be the main angle of attack. Get user permission
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by wjnc 11y ago
Walk people, walk! Why only 500m, it's only a 6 minute walk! Not including traffic, so might be some more. Increase that radius to a 10 minute walk on one end and a there is a lot more coverage (pi x r 2). And you're hitting your
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by wjnc 11y ago
It would be awesome if someone would use datasets like these to create a valuation of those musea. Did you know musea do not know / publish the valuation of all of their works? And that they only ever sell works, even those they will n
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by wjnc 11y ago
What's your view on the patent? Pretty broad? Or a sign of very quick progress that in 10 yrs something innovative (hence, a patent) turns into a few open source libraries and few lines of code to replicate. Most responses (including m
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by wjnc 11y ago
I guess you found the math combined with the search for alternative routes interesting? But did you also try to find prior art? My first thought would be that for unreasonably broad patents prior art is the easiest way to be able to use the
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by wjnc 11y ago
Funny you mention Thinkcell. Thinkcell is exactly the only smallish-supplier package I have ever seen as an allowed plugin to Excel. It entered the firm I was then working via people coming from consultancies and wanting to make graphs on
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by wjnc 11y ago
>> 1. Anyone who can get an add-in pasted corporate software security can also use a better tool outside Excel. In other words: think carefully about the customer. > What other tools are available? A lot of technical people don&

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