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by codeonfire 11y ago
Humans invest, computers trade. Its not about who is better at predicting. Most companies will gain value over time. There's no prediction to it. Algorithms are not predicting either. They are trying to fake out other algorithms a
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by codeonfire 11y ago
Robert half salary guide says salaries are going up 5-7% year of year, so someone is wrong about salaries.
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by codeonfire 11y ago
Here is a table relating the sample size, sensitivity, and confidence interval for evaluating diagnostic medical tests http://www.nature.com/nrmicro/journal/v8/n12_supp/fig_tab/nr... As you can see,
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by codeonfire 11y ago
> If you already know whether your hypothesis is true or false, you're not doing research That's exactly what this is. People believe the claim 100% so we do a simple coin flip, and, yes, there it is. It's confirmed! N
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by codeonfire 11y ago
First, what p-value are you referring to? You aren't even stating what your test is. Please explain how you got to "p-value is quite low"
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by codeonfire 11y ago
How do I know that? I just assume the guy that won was the only guy that played. If we can forget about all the people who ever claimed to smell disease, then we can forget about all the other lotto players.
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by codeonfire 11y ago
The odds of randomly drawing a royal flush are 1 in 649,000 but it happens all the time.
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by codeonfire 11y ago
So, with no scientific basis at all you believe there is a 10% chance that people can detect disease by smell, something that has AFAIK never been proven for any disease? We don't go to the doctor and have him or her smell our armpits
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by codeonfire 11y ago
That's ridiculous. That's like saying someone who wins the lottery is clairvoyant with P=0.00. I mean they got the exact right numbers which had 1 in 147 million chance, right?
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by codeonfire 11y ago
I'm too lazy to do the math, but I'm just going to say a test like this needs more than a sample size of 12 to show significance for detecting something that happens 1 in 500. The woman also was predisposed to thinking that at le
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by codeonfire 11y ago
The thing about giving equity is how do you walk away? Suppose in a year you want to quit that project, move, and work on something else. Is your friend going to try to claim part of your new company? Second, living with and starting a c
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by codeonfire 11y ago
It reminds me of this ad from Halliburton during Gulf War 2. It's just pure unrestrained hubris. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRDBn3CcPSI
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by codeonfire 11y ago
I can't believe he would try to misrepresent Amazon's anonymous anytime feedback tool that is in use by literally tens of thousands of people. He said its a) not anonymous and b) rarely used. Apparently as an SVP he's not f
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by codeonfire 11y ago
It leads to interview arms race. People will try to find ways around any sort of objective measure devised. Soon we'll have sexiness! "Your code works. You were fast and correct but just not sexy enough. Thanks for stopping in
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by codeonfire 11y ago
I recently went through a job search and began writing off companies that were all 20-somethings who obviously didn't have a lot of interviewing skill. I would say bias against older interviewees is 100% politics. Many of these inte
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by codeonfire 11y ago
I don't think so. I got an inspiron touch 4k and a SSD. I never booted Windows, just swapped the drive and installed Ubuntu. It is probably $500 cheaper than a comparable XPS. I decided I didn't care if the lid more was flexib
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by codeonfire 11y ago
My interpretation is that those companies are stodgey. It's always one or two guys trying to be in charge of the whole circus instead of having 5 rings going on. Google and Microsoft also have lengthy, old school review processes for
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by codeonfire 11y ago
No, what you said is absurd. You're feeble straw man argument is pathetic. Nowhere did I state the person should do nothing. Mental illness of the kind that is described here can be dealt with in other ways such as living with a tru
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by codeonfire 11y ago
That is called doctor shopping and doctors hate it. They will just assume you are trying to get drugs. Doctors don't care about your problems any more than a veterinarian cares about a dog or cat.
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by codeonfire 11y ago
Doctors are not always helpful for stuff like this. I wouldn't go to a doctor unless I am bleeding or immobile from pain or for scheduled checkups. They see far worse that a little paranoia every day, and will probably just prescribe
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by codeonfire 11y ago
Yeah, it sucks being alive, but having to sometimes defend oneself will always be a part of it. The only society where no one has to carry a weapon is one where everyone is physically separated all the time.
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by codeonfire 11y ago
People should carry weapons with them. Engineers can make smaller, lighter, safer, and less lethal weapons. It has to have the stopping power of a gun, capacity to be useful in a long firefight, and it needs to be readily accessible. Th
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by codeonfire 11y ago
Exactly, people are giving up fundamental security for very little free resources and a tiny, tiny one-off performance improvement. But, what people also don't seem to care about is that these CDN's are actually created to track
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by codeonfire 11y ago
Of course. That's why all billionaires have to spend lots of money for 24x7 personal security. Some people look at super yachts and private jets and think it's about decadence, but some of it is about not having your location kn
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by codeonfire 11y ago
Wow there are going to be...culture problems both ways.
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by codeonfire 11y ago
What does that prove? That there were some token outliers? I want to see the probability of chosen given each age.
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by codeonfire 11y ago
The 1950's through 1980's were a long four decades of wars since WW2. Any advantage going into the cold war shouldn't of carried through to the 90's. And we had little insight into soviet technology in the 80's, s
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by codeonfire 11y ago
There is a spectrum. Obviously the evil turds at companies (mostly) don't go around murdering people like common gangsters. But the way some of them act I don't understand why they just don't quit their job and start robbin
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by codeonfire 11y ago
What I find ridiculous in this article is how bad and social focused Google hiring has become. Google regularly declines to hire people with pHds or decades of real dev experience for developer jobs, yet hires a person after one "full
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by codeonfire 11y ago
I've always thought of YC as a cool message board site.

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