yarky

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by yarky 4y ago
> "... What matters are connections, professional experience, and the ability to raise large sums of money." That's kinda true about everything though and it's called business. I still remember a speaker from my stem
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by yarky 5y ago
I really like armadillo's syntax, it feels like your doing R/Matlab.
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by yarky 5y ago
> Some then have it beaten out of them by a slow, routine, inhuman education system that crushes individual creativity. ...created by/for those who are trying to get it, not by those who did.
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by yarky 5y ago
> Everything I do day-to-day is either stuff that I need to do to pay the bills and support my family That's the universal trap. > people like Feynman are born with a burning passion for learning that most people just don't
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by yarky 5y ago
“The only way to deep happiness is to do something you love to the best of your ability.” That's sums it up pretty well.
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by yarky 5y ago
> The unstructured doctor's notes may be where the best signal lies. Or where the raw data is corrupted ...
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by yarky 5y ago
> it doesn't help that almost nobody learned R as their first computer (as opposed to statistics) language. Aside from two statisticians I had as professors, I am yet to meet someone with deep understanding of statistics who doesn&#
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by yarky 5y ago
I've had to translate a lot of Matlab to R in college (physics and econometrics). I rarely found an important difference between the languages besides having to transpose some matrices here and there.
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by yarky 5y ago
Mind giving an example ? The only time I faced this was due to an autoregressive model, which was super easy to delegate to c++. I've been working with Python for the last year and appreciate how much it helps with general IT problems,
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by yarky 5y ago
> they just have enough money and culture to escape the label. Exactly. But isn't that true about everything ? Isn't economic/cultural capital what makes us call someone a Doctor/Sir? An expat/immigrant ? >
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by yarky 5y ago
> one person can not create as much value as 3 other reasonably competent ones. That's the key behind that reasoning : If your so skillful, go right ahead and create your own business. Otherwise, it's your place in the hierarch
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by yarky 5y ago
Exactly, that's one of the main issues I encountered in "academia" : you're expected to play along and ignore cheating because the goal is to have more students for as long as possible, not less.
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by yarky 5y ago
> Pre-Columbian societies (e.g., Actecs) were quite fond of gold for jewelry, but were puzzled by the Spanish fetish for it. At the beginning, but later they realized what was going on. They first "traded" their gold for mirror
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by yarky 5y ago
So we must trust that money printing is better, yet I have not seen any evidence of such a system being any better for average people than a gold-based system. Do you mind explaining with an example what could potentially happen ? I don
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by yarky 5y ago
> Would you say that there isn't a housing shortage? There isn't, the problem is everybody thinks they must be owners despite their financials. Truth is, offer is limited because not everyone can afford a house in most citie
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by yarky 5y ago
> broken enough to not be usable without buying premium support or the enterprise edition. How does kubernets do this ? I haven't hit that spot yet but I'm pretty sure I will. I guess I'll also find an open source solution
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by yarky 5y ago
> as the historical record in the US shows; see the first chart. The Greeks didn't print money out of paper. But let's be us-centric and focus on a short span of history to keep your point. > a monetary system based on fixe
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by yarky 5y ago
I don't get what's so confusing about gold. It's limited because it was created by the universe and it can be easily stored. If we had some gold-backed system, a real one, then where's the inflation ? Where's the pr
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by yarky 5y ago
Next time just fill out the "forgot your password" form.
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by yarky 5y ago
Well now you make me wonder if there's some noble technology I don't know about. Oh wait, are they still running on mainframes and will just switch to aws, is that the whole CBDC point ? Ok that one was a joke, but I am honestly c
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by yarky 5y ago
Cheating is a serious issue, but you won't stop it relying on more potential cheaters. And out of curiosity, what's been making you feel so safe around ATMs since 1982? COBOL ?
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by yarky 5y ago
I agree, they'll just use a blockchain to replace some old database and that's it, let's digitally print some more ...
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by yarky 5y ago
I agree, I also expected the whole office365 ecosystem to do what's supposed to, but I also found it useless due to the slowness and errors the whole team kept getting while working on the same file. That and the fact that it somehow f
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by yarky 5y ago
I was actually surprised : last time I used Git Bash on Windows it did work quite well with .docx files. Then I switched jobs to avoid touching .docx files ... The best alternative I've found to generate .docx output is R markdown, whi
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by yarky 5y ago
> to prevent those from looking even worse and causing more permanent damage to the economy. What makes you think that temporary measures will avoid a permanent impact on the economy ? These measures only delayed the impact.
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by yarky 5y ago
What's the logic here? Do you somehow think that taxes will encourage innovation ? Anybody can compete, but apparently most of us choose not to. Who forces a young talent to settle for a job instead of taking the risk to innovate ? May
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by yarky 5y ago
That’s why they say Bayesians can’t be atheists by definition. At least that’s how all atheists in my stats 101 class starting calling themselves agnostic. Another way to put it I learnt in a finance class : financial models behave alright,
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by yarky 5y ago
> I have no idea how people can ignore evidence they dislike so easily. Isn’t this the natural response to the unknown? Denial? I guess not everyone likes Bayes’ theorem!
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by yarky 5y ago
Way better than the n=30 they teach in stats 101 anyways
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by yarky 5y ago
Not sure what your point is, but that's exactly how surveys work : take a sample of size n (10000) and do some statistical inference based on the observed statistic, i.e. either reject or accept a hypothesis based on the sample.

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