MathsOX

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by MathsOX 11y ago
Remember that this is about Ontario, not Canada. Ontario happens to be the largest sub-sovereign debtor in the world and has had spreads over underlying CAD govie benchmarks increase dramatically over the past few years. Unless this plan is
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by MathsOX 11y ago
Well the line between traders and quants has always been blurry to the point of no differential at Jane Street, D.E Shaw, and Citadel since inception. Traders have always had quant background, but have focused on more execution-oriented ana
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by MathsOX 11y ago
>That was really really dumb. They should have gone from 0.25 to 0.3 or something. That's not how interest rate setting works at all. Plus, the Fed is still using a banded window that encapsulates your five basis point rise. What co
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The Great Malaise Continues(project-syndicate.org)
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by MathsOX 11y ago
A quote that stuck with me from a molecular biology class taken a year ago, "It's not who wins a Nobel Prize off of CRISPR work, it's how many there will end up being".
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by MathsOX 11y ago
I'm not equating them absolutely, however I'm pointing out the Planatir began utilizing existing tech to make in roads into national defence while using that cash flow to create more proprietary technology that, once released, all
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by MathsOX 11y ago
Yes, operating under the assumption early stage rounds were predicated on the technology existing and being sufficiently robust to carry out a certain percent of tests, that would be fraud.
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by MathsOX 11y ago
Without knowing the term sheets and early investor negotiations that were held, I shy away from using the term fraudulent in the strict legal sense of the word. Certainly you can argue more broadly that Theranos statements to the public ove
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by MathsOX 11y ago
The latter half of that paragraph is articulating what I think Theranos is currently doing, not what I think they should have done. What I said they should have done is described to their investors the business model that would act as a sto
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by MathsOX 11y ago
Many in SV find it hard to grapple with traditional startups not penetrating health care to a greater degree; in Rise of the Robots (one of the Financial Times and The Economist books of the year) it's lamented for an entire chapter. T
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by MathsOX 11y ago
Stanford has a transfer acceptance rate of 2%, so good for him. As for your second point, that's likely true, but it'll still be much more difficult for them to transfer than to get in straight out of High School (and impossible a
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by MathsOX 11y ago
I largely agree with this, but would add that traders (and even investment bankers in their 30s/40s) will work very little on the weekend. Certainly no senior trader is in the office.
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by MathsOX 11y ago
Princeton doesn't do transfers, Harvard/Yale have 1-2% transfer acceptance rates, etc. When transfers are admitted every year to my school (usually just 5-10) there's a writeup in the school paper about them. Without fail the
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by MathsOX 11y ago
I'm about half-way through the book. Very easy, enjoyable read. Left wondering why some of these Amazon reviews try to make it sound as if it's quite academically/technically rigorous.
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by MathsOX 11y ago
That's fair. Would say that, in my experience, there wasn't much explicit nepotism at GS. If there was it'd be a case of someone's son getting good freshman/sophomore internships at small private equity shops, which
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by MathsOX 11y ago
Mildly impressive in the spectrum of potential jobs, not just jobs at Goldman. Plenty of folks in the SSG leave to jobs one-off kids go to immediately after undergrad. This, of course, is all a function of your perception of the prestige of
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by MathsOX 11y ago
> Stairway to Paradise: Between drags on her cigarette, one student says that she will be working for Goldman Sachs. As someone who worked at Goldman and is college-aged, I think this says quite a lot about the piece in general. Working
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by MathsOX 11y ago
> Funny how the discussion is never to simplify the code This has been the conversation in every political debate for (at least) the past decade. It could be the one broad sentiment shared across party lines. Almost everyone agrees on si
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by MathsOX 11y ago
When Matt Levine includes anything in quotes, assume it's snark. He's written lots about "front-running" being, innaproporatiedy, a catch-all term, much like HFT itself.
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by MathsOX 11y ago
That all seems like quasi-maths, however. What hopefully was being referred to earlier is algebra and analysis, at least up to the 2nd iteration, so one has real understanding of methods of proof. E.g - no probability class that doesn'
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Germany claims success for elite universities drive(nature.com)
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Ask HN: 2015 Macbook Experience
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by MathsOX 11y ago
"He starts with the assumption of 100dB as the max power but OSHA's ultrasonic recommendation[1] is actually 145dB which is 31,000x more power.. Even if you use 130dB, it's still 1,000x more power than he assumes." It&#x
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by MathsOX 11y ago
There was already a lengthy discussion of this piece: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8542091 The piece aside - which I won't make a commentary on - I wonder whether this is just the right level of snark and intel
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by MathsOX 11y ago
Would be interested in hearing how you got involved in this and get more color on your role, if you wanted to share.
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by MathsOX 11y ago
Agree with this. The best videos I've seen, and the ones listed on the page, are just the founders chatting naturally.
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by MathsOX 11y ago
You're commenting on an article within America's oldest literary journal. A literary journal pontificates, deviates, muses on subjects. Taking time to frame a subject - partly for enjoyment of the process - is par for the course.
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by MathsOX 11y ago
Could you provide a link to this paper?
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by MathsOX 11y ago
Sick Children's Hospital in Toronto is a global leader in research and the center for all of Canada's EB patients. The EB program is the only one where ALL members must rotate (i.e - take time away from EB patients). To see the to
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by MathsOX 11y ago
Bloomberg terminal headline, 10:46: Greece's Tsipras calls for a 'No' Vote in July 5 Referendum 10:47 "Merkel says no new situation; Greece must hold referendum first" 10:48 "Renzi says decision for Greek peopl

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