kittenfluff

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by kittenfluff 11y ago
There are an awful lot of referrer links in this article. That's not a bad thing by itself, but it always makes me ask the question - Did this person write the article they wanted to write and then add referrer links, or did they decid
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by kittenfluff 11y ago
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” -- Upton Sinclair http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/21810-it-is-difficult-to-get...
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by kittenfluff 11y ago
That article is wrong on quite a few key points, and misleading on others. > Mark will deduct the fair value of his gift to his foundation from his taxable income in the year he makes the donation. No he won't. The new foundation
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Yahoo is looking for a new way around Alibaba taxes(bloombergview.com)
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by kittenfluff 11y ago
Presumably you think that the people running the study didn't think of this? Here's a quote from a New York Times article about the project - > In the second year of the tournament, Tetlock and collaborators skimmed off the top
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by kittenfluff 11y ago
My interpretation in layman's terms of what this paper has proved - Take an infinite sequence of +1 and -1, for example 1, 1, -1, 1, -1, -1, -1, 1, 1, -1, ... You get an evenly spaced subsequence by starting on the n'th ele
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by kittenfluff 11y ago
Interestingly, with Joe Biden in the range (10%, 13.5%) to win the nomination, and (7.7%, 8.3%) to win the Presidency, the lowest his electability could be is 7.7% / 13.5% = 57% and the highest it could be is 8.3% /
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by kittenfluff 11y ago
That would be equivalent to not ticking any of the boxes.
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by kittenfluff 11y ago
I checked them after I'd submitted the survey. The only real words that I hadn't ticked were "regolith" (I was almost sure it was a real word, but I didn't know the meaning of it), "phoropter" (I believed
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by kittenfluff 11y ago
=== SPOILER ALERT! === The most interesting question, to me, is the one about which words you know the meaning of. About half of them aren't real words. I assume this question is used partly as a gauge of vocabulary (how many of the re
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by kittenfluff 11y ago
Remember that a hedge fund only sees 20% of the profit that it generates on behalf of its investors, and a large part of that goes into staffing and infrastructure costs, not to mention that quant traders like to be paid sizable bonuses (an
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by kittenfluff 11y ago
> If you back test over the past 5 years then you are only testing your model against a huge bull market. If your model is long as often as it is short (either cross-sectionally or in a time series sense) then this is less likely to be a
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by kittenfluff 11y ago
For those who didn't get it - mjd is the author of the blog post linked to. Although he's also right that it's a stupid comment that deserves downvotes :)
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by kittenfluff 11y ago
Like I said, "you will never be able to completely avoid advertising without taking yourself out of mainstream society" and "second-order advertising is much harder to deal with". I don't claim to be immune to adver
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by kittenfluff 11y ago
I agree completely. I think you have a moral obligation to yourself to avoid advertising as much as is reasonably possible. This means not watching television (unless you're paying to watch it free of advertisements), not reading pub
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by kittenfluff 11y ago
As I said, in Haskell "unquantified type variables are implicitly universally quantified" i.e. type variables (which are always lowercase in Haskell, to distinguish them from concrete types which are uppercase) are always generic.
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by kittenfluff 11y ago
It's not clear to me why it's necessary to include <T, U> at the start of the function definition. In Haskell, unquantified type variables are implicitly universally quantified, i.e. you assume that the signature must be val
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by kittenfluff 11y ago
This is actually very cool! It's interesting to play around with strategies for using your retirement income, e.g. 0.02 * [Savings] with the idea of making your overall income path as stable as possible.
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by kittenfluff 11y ago
Responds "Yes" to 9007199254740990, 9007199254740991, 9007199254740992 but "No" to 9007199254740991, 9007199254740992, 9007199254740993 Presumably this is due to how Javascript handles integers, i.e. it use
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by kittenfluff 11y ago
I don't think the satire was particularly subtle!
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by kittenfluff 11y ago
Well, I'm glad that Londoners have collectively decided to tell the rebranders where to stick it. I've lived in London for ten years and have never heard someone refer to "Midtown" or "Noho". Urgh.
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by kittenfluff 11y ago
> I had drinks with one of the $1 billion "unicorn" CEOs last night, in a trendy Noho bar in London. Where the hell is "Noho"? Is this some ridiculous attempt to Americanize London by trying to rename parts of it afte
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by kittenfluff 11y ago
My favorite analysis of Buffon's needle is this one, which pulls out the correct probability of intersection without any calculus - Consider a straight needle of length L dropped onto lines spaced 1 unit apart. It is clear that the ex