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The Life Cycle of a Hedge Fund(mathbabe.org)
1 points by mian2zi3 15y ago|0 comments
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Wall St vs. us(mathbabe.org)
5 points by mian2zi3 15y ago|0 comments
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by mian2zi3 15y ago
I would downvote this if I could. The author clearly does not understand the principles of quantum physics. "Thoughts become things. Whatever you focus on, becomes your reality." Umm, no. Sorry, but your failed attempt at poor physics a
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by mian2zi3 15y ago
Yeah, I guess that's about right. (usually) go to class, scan the pset and read up on the bits that don't make sense, or better yet, find someone to explain them. I do have some distinct memories of reading the book. I wasn't a great stu
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by mian2zi3 15y ago
I took 6.001.
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How Ray Dalio built the world’s richest and strangest hedge fund(newyorker.com)
3 points by mian2zi3 15y ago|1 comments
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by mian2zi3 15y ago
I think it is interesting that this thread (at the the time of posting this comment) has 62 comments and 122 points, while 3 posts of the Bridgewater philosophy (which is quite interesting and a more substantial read than this article) have
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by mian2zi3 15y ago
> Aaron Swartz lived in the District of Massachusetts and was a fellow at Harvard University’s Center for Ethics. Oh, the irony.
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by mian2zi3 15y ago
Wow, that was quick! HN rocks! Thanks KM!
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by mian2zi3 15y ago
Me too! Email in my profile.
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by mian2zi3 15y ago
Mathematics proves things about an infinite class of objects all the time, like, say, the input/output behavior of your program. One technique to do this is induction.
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by mian2zi3 15y ago
While I admit it is true in the technical sense of Curry-Howard, it is certainly not true in the sense the OP meant: that learning program is a substitute for learning mathematics. Let's examine the post in light of C-H. I'm not super fami
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by mian2zi3 15y ago
Physical education is the new math. Students don't like to be trapped in stuffy classrooms. They want to be outside and run around in the fresh air and sunshine. Over the semester, not only have my students improved markedly in physical
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
Umm, what is Notifo, and why would I want to beta test it?
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
Learn a dependent-typed programming language like Agda or Epigram or Coq.
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
200m man hrs/day = 380 man yrs/day. That's cognitive surplus.
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
When the first Cr-48 reviews popped up, I had exactly this question: "What kind of setup would you want for development?" (Or maybe writing papers in TeX.) ymacs seems like a good start for a web-based editor, but it is useless without fil
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
Rather than wring your hands and worry you're not worthy, why not just apply and see how it goes? If you don't get in through the front door, you can make a plan from there. Of course, you still want to build the most compelling applicati
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
Same here. And no advanced search?
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
I'm not JFDI, I'm INTJ.
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
> At the beginning of this year, there were twice as many four-year college graduates working as waiters and bartenders as engineers. Umm, maybe this is because 60% (or more) of college students studied the humanities rather than engin
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
No. I don't really play poker. I was responsible for the software. My poker guy didn't step up to do the strategy. I thought about learning poker seriously myself, but eventually decided getting a PhD in math was a better use of time, s
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
This is summed up in the old adage, "The hungry hound hunts best."
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
I built a bot that used screen scraping, OCR and play reconstruction from the beginning. I had pretty generic logic to handle all the major sites. When a site changed up their display, I just generalized my approach to handle it. I don't
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
Same here. The only "interesting" choice was when the safe/risky options had the same expected value. The percentages are much less clear, as are the payoffs. I was attracted less by the monetary payoff of the entrepreneurial life than th
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
One drunken night and you're stuck with them for 18 years?
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
And it only weights 2.3lbs. Wow.
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
I don't understand why digital book sharing hasn't caught on like music/movie sharing, which undisputedly thrived among college students, at least until reasonable alternatives like iTunes and Amazon Music Store came along. You could read
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
> perfection (or in math terms, infinity) Seriously?
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by mian2zi3 16y ago
How funny. Twenty years ago I worked for a summer for that guy at the University of Montana grinding up bees and writing data collection/analysis software. edit: One of the projects I worked on looked at to what extent bees aggregated envi

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