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by georgeek 4y ago
Same here, from both interns we've had who took a class of hers.. It's eye-opening that the salary of an adjunct faculty member at Cal with 100% appointment with classes taught to 1.5K+ students (CS61A) is less than the tuition fe
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by georgeek 5y ago
When your family and kids appear, work stops being a 0-sum game. Instead, you're constantly arbitraging between it and the rest of your life. The good news is that you can recognise and structure it as a positive or a negative sum game
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by georgeek 5y ago
Hasselblad has its roots in military optics and space-constrained imaging solutions. They have made many professional surveillance systems over the years with smaller sensors. Hopefully this is not just a slapped logo.
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by georgeek 5y ago
Burgers and sausages are some of the most detached ways to eat meat. While a steak has bones, a burger is much more abstract. There is probably a good anthropological theory behind this.
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by georgeek 6y ago
Which is why you should always separate a transaction into smaller chunks - you could liquidate 20% of a position once per week.
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by georgeek 6y ago
Banks do compete but it's not really an iterated game - a company only goes public once.
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by georgeek 6y ago
Almost everything that one would need for daily subsistence is tied to benchmark future contracts: cattle, soy beans, rice, wheat, sugar, coffee are all traded as futures on exchanges. Most coffee in the world is traded against the Coffee C
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by georgeek 6y ago
Chronicle Software's OpenHFT stack has a few of their libraries: https://github.com/OpenHFT
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by georgeek 6y ago
Such competitions might have two goals in mind: recruiting and signal diversification. The recruiting angle is obvious. Any alpha that is not fully correlated to existing alpha is worth its weight in gold for an organization with the size,
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by georgeek 6y ago
The effect will only be seen in the future, smoothed over a few years.
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by georgeek 6y ago
C&JC figured a way to finance their projects through a few big landmark donations along with a proto Kickstarter campaign. They would sell numbered plans and drawings with a deep discount before the event happens. They had different sup
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by georgeek 6y ago
Yes: as usual with disease the poorest countries are going to be hit the hardest. If you think that Lombardy's medical facilities are bad, this will be quite the next level.
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by georgeek 7y ago
Is this the hype train? Yes to a large extent. However some people at a16z do know what they are talking about. Ex: Vijay Pande is a partner there and an (adjunct) professor of Bioengineering at Stanford. He and the team around him do have
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by georgeek 7y ago
It depends on the type of derivatives. Consider commodity products: basic materials such as iron ore or coal or softs such as cocoa or wheat. Their (spot) prices used to be extremely volatile. Coincidentally, one of the first big economic
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How to Use MQTT with React Native?(motion-software.com)
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by georgeek 7y ago
Yes. I am OK with accepting tracking cookies on other sites but I just close the tabs if they I see anything related to Oath as a matter of principle.
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by georgeek 7y ago
Every doctor tends to have a very static sensitivity-specificity preferences (true positive rate aka recall and true negative rate, respectively). One of the interesting consequences of using an automated diagnostic tool (already mentioned
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by georgeek 8y ago
That's the whole concept of kaizen, or improvement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen
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by georgeek 8y ago
McKinsey has a lot of Chinese walls internally: most partners and consultants who have been working for one client would never advise that client's competitors. The firm is very careful about keeping the trust their clients have in the
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by georgeek 8y ago
TLO is a Zerg player, so he probably does a lot more errors when playing Protoss. Also, every top player estimates when to do a sequence of actions and spams it a few times to maximize the chance of execution. Meanwhile Alphastar only has t
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by georgeek 8y ago
Just a reminder that Google, or any company for that matter, has a fiduciary duty towards their shareholders to file a patent for everything they have learned about and that hasn't been patented yet.
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by georgeek 8y ago
David Freedman has this following dialogue in his Statistical Models: Theory and Practice book: Philosophers' stones in the early twenty-first century Correlation, partial correlation, cross lagged correlation, principal components,
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by georgeek 8y ago
In yoga, this technique is called "virtual" Nadi Shodana or alternative nostril breathing. There are many variants, A/B tested for centuries, that might work better for different people.
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by georgeek 8y ago
Could AMD open-sourcing their (hopefully incoming) stack of learning libraries be a competitive edge for them? They are far behind but this could be an important step.
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by georgeek 8y ago
There is also something else: some funds have become so good in putting the right orders in the book that they don't need statistics so much to generate alpha.
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by georgeek 9y ago
HFT is best defined as predicting movements under a tick; everything above a tick is out of HFT territory. Latency requirements could still be pretty serious though, as many models at many firms can act simultaneously for longer frequencies
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by georgeek 9y ago
Meanwhile Google already has their Quantum AI lab. They're busy with Numerics Flow, a Tensor Flow-like quantum machine learning framework which looks great. Anybody else active in this field?
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by georgeek 9y ago
This is exactly what Questers do. https://www.questers.com/
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by georgeek 9y ago
While that's certainly a concern, let's not forget that Alcantara is very common in high-end sports cars. It's commonly used in endurance racing (24h of le Mans etc).
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by georgeek 9y ago
That's the one :)

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