cftm

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by cftm 2y ago
And the money is actually from the Insurance industry, whose goal is to drive down utilization while driving up fee-for-service. This way, they make a little money on non-insured procedures but make a shit load of money by keeping more of t
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by cftm 5y ago
They're starting to break the code on it, but there are concrete docks that Rome built 2000 years ago that still exist today - we have trouble building salt resistant concrete docks that last ~100 years. Apparently it has to do with us
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by cftm 5y ago
Spent three years an eight months working in retail hell, and this was exactly what the company pushed employees to do - they were kind enough to sell shares to employees at a 10% discount but you had to be crazy, grossly miseducated or dra
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by cftm 5y ago
This times a million.
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by cftm 5y ago
Someone who reports to the poster took three weeks off and the powers that be wanted the poster to have a "talk" with that person.
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by cftm 5y ago
Total tangent, I used to have the Office 365 subscription but canceled it, yet I can still use word/excel - I've just lost access to the cloud features which I wasn't using to begin with - I would have thought they'd dis
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by cftm 5y ago
Oh but LA does have an awesome cheesesteak place - it's called Big Mike's and it's located in El Segundo and Hermosa Beach. Amazing cheesesteaks...
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by cftm 5y ago
Blame the insurance companies - most major insurance companies use your SSN as a mechanism for identifying the patient. The member ID #'s can be used but it's quicker to just input the SSN.
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by cftm 8y ago
This exactly. The cold war was ended by the Strategic Defense Initiative - not because it worked but because we forced the USSR to pour resources into matching us and it bankrupted the country.
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by cftm 9y ago
tl;dr - Buy this stock of FX160's on ebay now, they're better I promise.
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by cftm 9y ago
A million years? I think you over-estimate how insignificant we are to this planet. I'm not advocating we destroy the environment, but we really can't do a whole darn lot to it. Can we set off every nuclear weapon at once? Sure
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by cftm 9y ago
I think the general point holds as $19.5B is a rounding error in the US's budget. There are issues with the lack of funding to EPA but with respect to this discussion it's a straw-man.
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by cftm 9y ago
Of course peoples greed contributes to this problem. Each and every one of us have some suspect ancestors in our gene pool. It's how evolution works, so saying "But we're greedy and we need to fix that first" seems sil
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by cftm 10y ago
I would argue that actually it does - in order to bring the world commodity market crashing, as is suggested by the article, it requires iron coming down to earth and bringing mass down the gravity well, safely, requires either a great deal
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by cftm 10y ago
You do realize that we're still dealing with the world of models that need be trained. Models are only as good as the data that is given to them, and data is only as good as those who collect it. Neural Networks aren't even clos
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by cftm 13y ago
It's like every seminar and workshop about getting rich quick, write a book, run a seminar and get back to pay you for four hours a week about how to only work for four hours a week. Now, his workout manual actually has lots of valuabl
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by cftm 13y ago
The entire tone of the article is rather off-putting. Through portions of the article there tended to be this sense of having pulled one over on corporate America, when that is hardly reality. One data point: Nordstroms. They will take e
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by cftm 14y ago
There's a lot of intuition and experience that is required to be a talented statistician; once the test has begun things are pretty much locked down (ie, if you know the math there is only one "right" answer from the data). The intuition a
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by cftm 14y ago
If memory serves though, the further out you push your sigma's the greater the likelihood of introducing a type-2 error. There is no easy answer in statistics!
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by cftm 14y ago
Interesting post though I feel the author is somewhat missing the forest for the trees; the issue isn't about "real-time" the issue is that many people conducting A/B tests don't understand what the statistics are telling them nor do they u
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