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by astanway 3y ago
Google ostensibly offers this as well. However - I’m in the middle of moving us to Azure and I have more details on the Google deal: you only have 60 days to complete the migration and then you must terminate your billing account. It’s a to
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by astanway 3y ago
Feels like this would make a total mess of a cap table. It’s effectively equity in all the ways that matter for minority preferred shareholders, except that it isn’t represented on the cap table and it’s got baked in pari passu treatment, w
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by astanway 6y ago
What a farce. Everyone with a pulse can see the damage that Facebook has caused to our democracy and around the world. Facebook employees have a black stain on their resumes that they will need to answer for for the rest of their careers.
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by astanway 6y ago
Yep - this is what 99% of electricity retailers do.
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by astanway 6y ago
For wholesale players: yes. If you're a retailer and you buy an electricity future and then only use half of it across your customer base, you sell the remainder at real time prices. And for generator, selling real time power is the en
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On power markets, snow storms, and $16k power bills(astanway.medium.com)
67 points by astanway 6y ago|218 comments
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by astanway 7y ago
$1M for a six week “EM plus two” engagement is on the high side, but it’s about par for the course for most McKinsey contracts. The standard is usually $500k-$1M for that kind of engagement. I think this is kind of a non-story for anyone wh
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by astanway 7y ago
That's really false. They are professional drivers, it's much safer to bike around them as opposed to regular people who don't understand how NYC streets work.
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by astanway 7y ago
Saul Kripke built an entire career on what exactly names are, as covered in Naming and Necessity ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_and_Necessity ), building on earlier work by Frege ( https://en.wikipedia.
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by astanway 7y ago
Realistically a price higher than that wouldn't really have any effect on incentivizing generators any more, since there is a limit to how fast they can ramp up, how much spinning reserve capacity they have etc. So, it mostly just serv
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by astanway 7y ago
RTM prices in ERCOT can easily spike to the price cap of $9000/MWh during bad days: https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/market-insights/latest-ne...
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by astanway 7y ago
It’s overpaying if anything. Why should the utility be forced to pay retail RTM rates for power that they could have bought wholesale a month before if they actually needed it? Utility ratecase logic often has many ratepayer-unfriendly moti
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by astanway 7y ago
Utility scale batteries are not yet a proven and deployed technology. Not to say there aren’t successes - Aliso Canyon and the AEMO installation in Australia have both been very well received by their respective system operators. But there’
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by astanway 7y ago
Wholesale price is definitely not “zero”. It fluctuates wildly, and if a retailer is exposed to the real time market at the flow date, they can expect to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars. RTM prices can easily spike from $50/MW to
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by astanway 8y ago
If anyone is interested in this type of work, our team at Amperon is hiring data engineers, data scientists, and front end engineers. We’re funded by SV Angel and Notation Capital and we’ve already got traction in ERCOT (Texas). More info:
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by astanway 8y ago
> Something a government might never bother with. Maybe because colonizing Mars is a massive waste of resources that could be better spent fixing the planet we already live on? Or do you think the solution to scarcity is to have billiona
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by astanway 8y ago
Amperon | Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack) and Machine Learning Engineer | NYC, New York | Full-time | Onsite preferred, remote friendly | https://amperon.co We are a decade into the smart meter deployment era. There over 7
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by astanway 9y ago
You severely need to check your bias if, after years of extremely similar incidences, it took a white death instead of a black death to convince you.
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by astanway 9y ago
Sugar is such poison. There is zero nutritional value, unless you're in the middle of running a marathon. It should be severely regulated. There is no reason it should take substantial effort to find common food products containing &lt
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by astanway 9y ago
The author calls herself a statistician but has no advanced OR undergraduate degree in statistics. I would not put much faith into this "research". Making conclusions and recommendations at the global and national population level
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by astanway 10y ago
That isn't true. Making an order with an intent to cancel is a crime. Hedge funds routinely cancel orders, but they do not necessarily make them with the intent to cancel them from the beginning.
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by astanway 10y ago
"A similarly-sized company of 15,000 might have 5 data scientists" - this is so far off the mark I don't even have a response.
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by astanway 10y ago
Ah, the old "shortage" "issue". More likely, there is no shortage - just a shortage of engineers willing to be paid the low wages most likely on offer at these companies
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by astanway 10y ago
"But religions want to control every aspect of human life." You mean like controlling what kind of bathing suits people can and can't wear in public?
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by astanway 10y ago
Seems like a sketchy business to me. Who founds a company, raises 4M out of the gate, and the acquires a competitor a month later? http://www.confirm.io/#!our-story/h6arz . Combine that with a "partnership" si
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by astanway 10y ago
Yeah, this scenario is a million times more plausible. ML that augments human capabilities to empower bad people to do even more evil things.
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by astanway 10y ago
Almost no one who actually works or has done serious research in ML is genuinely concerned about "malevolent AI". We are so, so, so far away from anything remotely close to that. Please stop trying to gin up fear and listen to the
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by astanway 10y ago
Buying an abnormally large amount of short dated, out-of-the-money options is a textbook (and extremely rookie) insider trading move.
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by astanway 10y ago
Detectica | NYC | Data Engineer + Senior Front End Engineer http://detectica.com Email: abe@detectica.com We build insider trading detection + other fintech compliance related products for large banks, making heavy use of ML in
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by astanway 10y ago
You refer to engineers as "monkeys", it's clear you don't have any respect for them in the first place.

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