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by xtacy 8y ago
FWIW, this magic is how the Linux kernel implements generic linked lists, hash tables, and red-black trees: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15832301/understanding-c...
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by xtacy 8y ago
Yes, the authors mention it in the introduction as a "well accepted manifold assumption."
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Grelling-Nelson Paradox(en.wikipedia.org)
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VHEM: Voluntary Human Extinction Movement(rationalwiki.org)
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Congressional Report on Equifax Hack(sans.org)
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by xtacy 8y ago
Not all "paradoxes" are similar to Simpson's paradox. See this PDF for more similar "paradoxes": https://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/r409-corrected-reprint.... (I quote the word paradox,
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Album de Statistique Graphique(richardbrath.wordpress.com)
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by xtacy 8y ago
/r/MachineLearning comments on the same paper from April 2018: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/89yp8g/r_t...
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Mathematics in the 20th Century (2002) [pdf](math.tamu.edu)
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by xtacy 8y ago
Interesting, thanks for sharing your insights. I thought that huge institutions prefer to trade on exchanges directly (for anonymity), but it looks like there are other incentives in play.
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by xtacy 8y ago
Yeah, they still have to fill you at the NBBO, and this trade routing is no different from what other brokers (Schwab/E-Trade/etc.) do when you place a trade. I wonder whether the fact that Robinhood doesn't internalise its t
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Dancing Links – Don Knuth's Christmas Lecture (Livestream at 6:30PM PT)(scpd.stanford.edu)
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by xtacy 8y ago
Interesting article, but I would have loved it if they touched upon how to effectively follow these principles in a world where there's competition. For instance, getting feedback, thoroughly vetting ideas, etc., is a good practice.
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by xtacy 8y ago
It might be worth getting a PhD first in the US and then migrating to Canada!
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Schelling Fences on Slippery Slopes(lesswrong.com)
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by xtacy 8y ago
OLAP systems tend to be read only (for analytics) so the question of transactions and consistency isn't really applicable.
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by xtacy 8y ago
Nice writeup, but given the title, I was hoping you would also have a constructive test case that shows that these systems fail to meet their guarantees (like Jepsen did). :) I wonder if any of the aforementioned systems (Calvin/Spanne
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by xtacy 8y ago
That's right. The situation is quite complex with foreign debts that are hard to pay back. The situation gets worse with tariffs against Turkey hurting their ability to trade, which creates caution among investors. This in turn caus
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by xtacy 8y ago
It's interesting you mention similarities with machine learning, when in fact, chronologically speaking, the formalisation of Quantum Mechanics used (complex) tools from Hilbert Space.
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30th Anniversary of Mathematica(blog.wolfram.com)
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by xtacy 8y ago
Also highly recommend Terry Tao's talk on the cosmic distance ladder: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/10/10/the-cosmic-distanc...
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by xtacy 8y ago
As the above post says, the main known motive is to diversify Saudi's sovereign wealth away from Oil as their primary investment.
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by xtacy 8y ago
His push into social sciences did not seem very childish to me; it was more like a plea to have more explicit models. I haven't come across his editorials for econometricians. Could you post some references that I can read?
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by xtacy 8y ago
I have, and I really like it. If you read some of the historical debates between Judea Pearl and Don Rubin (of the Rubin Causal Model fame), and also Andrew Gelman (on his blog: http://andrewgelman.com/category/causal-
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by xtacy 8y ago
I am not a native English speaker, but quite familiar with the use of "at (large) scale" in similar context. It means that one has deployed it/is using the tool with a non-trivial (could be anywhere from few 100s to few 1000s
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by xtacy 8y ago
Does https://www.elph.com work for anyone?
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How to drive change as a software engineer(lihaoyi.com)
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Where Am I? Daniel C. Dennett [pdf](lehigh.edu)
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Twelve Virtues of Rationality(yudkowsky.net)
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Epistemic Learned Helplessness(squid314.livejournal.com)
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