hitechnomad

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by hitechnomad 1y ago
Calling Karpathy a YouTuber is like referring to Einstein as a Physics Teacher.
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by hitechnomad 8y ago
Great! That opens the door for other startups that ARE responsible with people's personal data.
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by hitechnomad 8y ago
GDPR is just good data protection practice.
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by hitechnomad 8y ago
I'm doing my OU Masters in Maths now, in my 40s. It is definitely hard, but I'm enjoying it. Personally I struggle to learning things thoroughly unless I'm working in the subject, or I have exams to do. My own learning work
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by hitechnomad 10y ago
Be careful with the direction of causality here. It may be that giving up his hobbies hastened his dementia, OTOH it could easily be that the onset of his dementia led to him giving up his hobbies.
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by hitechnomad 10y ago
He links to a Woodford Investment analysis that states that Brexit might not be that bad for the UK (the report is from Feb 2016). This goes against every other analyst report that I've read, and the optimism seems to be based on a per
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by hitechnomad 14y ago
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by hitechnomad 14y ago
I'm @hitechnomad on twitter. I'll tweet once it's on github. The system I'm open sourcing is my own system for trading on my Interactive Brokers account. It should be able to handle any FIX-based exchange/brokerages. Currently finishing a c
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by hitechnomad 14y ago
I will be releasing my own algo trading system open source in Feb, if anyone is interested. I'll do a post on HN once it's released.
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by hitechnomad 14y ago
Agreed. You could easily argue that in an agrarian society children are an economic benefit (because your wealth is based on working the land), whereas in an urban society having children is an economic burden.
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by hitechnomad 15y ago
Me too! I was trying to get a router working, and was pinging slashdot to find out if I was routing to the net. No response from slashdot - hmmmm, must have a network problem at my end. A bit later and I realised the net was up, but slashdo
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by hitechnomad 16y ago
But what I think is interesting about this story is the effects of a shrinking middle class on a society. Could this be a glimpse into what could happen in Western society if unemployment and the gap between rich and poor continues to grow?