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by jtcond13 16d ago
Useful piece on this from Owen Lamont: https://www.acadian-asset.com/investment-insights/owenomics/...
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by jtcond13 1y ago
"The Theory that Would Not Die" by Sharon McGrayne has a good chapter on this, book is a more general history of Bayesian statistics.
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by jtcond13 2y ago
Turing's Cathedral by George Dyson
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by jtcond13 6y ago
My personal favorite is Richard McElreath's "Statistical Rethinking", which covers regression and multilevel modeling from a Bayesian approach but doesn't assume too much formal math background.
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by jtcond13 7y ago
Yeah I'm familiar with the area (about to move from South Bend to Chicago). There's a lot of effort going into building a startup scene in South Bend, both around the Innovation and Ignition Park developments and at Notre Dame. At
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by jtcond13 8y ago
Inter Alia, this article is another piece of evidence that a lot of pretty smart people are stuck in jobs that aren’t very complex. The accumulated cost of this to the rest of us is quite high...
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by jtcond13 8y ago
Unfortunately mandatory parking minimums are written into the zoning codes of most American cities, leading to the surfeit of parking in lots of places. Undoing this will take no small amount of work.
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by jtcond13 8y ago
It’s interesting to see the America's most prominent libertarian economist state that capital markets aren’t adequately funding risky business ventures...
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by jtcond13 8y ago
I tip my cap to all the loyal users of MoviePass out there; I have long waited for the day when investors would be willing to subsidize my hobbies and you've been living in that world for months. Bravo, ladies and gentleman. I have to
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by jtcond13 8y ago
Pointless jobs abound in both the public and private sectors, but I think these articles resonate because so many white collar workers are largely occupied with projects that will be cancelled before they're finished or whose end produ
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by jtcond13 9y ago
+1 to this. Make them public parks that everyone can enjoy.
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by jtcond13 9y ago
You're welcome, America. Will anyone really miss Buffalo Wild Wings? Or Golf? I suspect we drink just as much beer, it's just more craft beer than Sam Adams or Corona. The 'Millennials don't like breasts' angle is
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by jtcond13 9y ago
The 'rise of passive investors' creates more opportunities for activist investors to discover overvalued/undervalued stocks. Index funds aren't affecting the prices of individual stocks. So long as the opportunity exist
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by jtcond13 9y ago
Anyone else subscribe to Pinboard primarily to support Maciej's writing/organizing? It's like the fair trade coffee of online bookmarking services.
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by jtcond13 9y ago
To those of you who hate R, consider investing 1/2 hour to learn the dplyr package. Dplyr is, in my view, Hadley Wickham's real masterpiece and is why I use R for most data analysis nowadays. As for ggplot, the 'grammar of gr
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by jtcond13 9y ago
These calculations seem fishy, for reasons stated above and others (e.g. why 20-year ROI? why exclude graduate degree holders?). However, it is true that rising education costs are eating much of the ROI of attendance and lack of transparen
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by jtcond13 9y ago
24K. See: https://blog.pinboard.in/2016/07/pinboard_turns_seven/
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by jtcond13 9y ago
Good for you! Your attitude is inspiring.
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by jtcond13 9y ago
Writing a full reply since I don't agree with much of the advice given. I've worked around/in data science teams at a large BigCo and I think that you're far overestimating the bar here. There aren't enough people
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by jtcond13 9y ago
+1 to this. SQL + Logistic regression creates millions of dollars in business value every year. Some of that could be yours!
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by jtcond13 9y ago
Hacker News, Marginal Revolution, Netflix?
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Ask HN: What is the best time of day to check Hacker News?
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by jtcond13 10y ago
People who see something wrong with your question/project/link tend to be more motivated to comment, which I think explains some of what you're talking about. The other way may be the way you use HN. There's a connect
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by jtcond13 10y ago
I recommend John Guttag's Intro to Computation and Programming Using Python to people interested in starting to code, as the accompanying video lectures are available on MIT OCW and the book itself is enjoyable to read. That book (+
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by jtcond13 10y ago
My favorite Grand Central easter egg is the 'Whispering Arch' by the Oyster Bar. Standing in one corner, you can speak into the wall and be heard by someone standing in the opposite corner. http://www.sonicwonders.org&
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by jtcond13 10y ago
Can someone provide a motivating example here? I'm not opposed to reading this, but don't understand why I should.
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by jtcond13 10y ago
This article is pretty good instruction, but very good SEO. I know quite a few people asking this question.
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by jtcond13 10y ago
+1 to "Deep Work". Cal Newport's "Straight A Student" is also worth the price if you're interested in this stuff.
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by jtcond13 10y ago
It's a reference to the nonsense 'controversies' created by Donald Trump.
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by jtcond13 10y ago
This is cool but I have to wonder: what's the use case for this?

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