rchi

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by rchi 14y ago
I had the same experience on fact checking
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by rchi 14y ago
I was taught it costs 100million dollars with one in ten chance of success
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by rchi 14y ago
You are proving my point. There are many difficulties to fixing the system. Broken system persists because 'solutions' cannot be easily/successfully implemented.
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by rchi 14y ago
I wonder if Goldacre's solutions would actually help. If it's so easy to fix the system, people would have already done it.
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by rchi 14y ago
I really enjoyed Simonton's work but was quite surprised by the equal-odds rule you mentioned. It doesn't seem to apply to scientists at the highest level e.g. Einstein.
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by rchi 15y ago
because most people secretly desire to be rich - that desire is in our cognitive makeup, so is the desire to bash rich people.
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by rchi 15y ago
this is becoming a cliche!
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by rchi 16y ago
great article. it's refreshing hearing from someone who feel secure about their life.
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by rchi 16y ago
Science is not stamp collecting. It's hardly about putting in the hours, and all about originality. Many Nobel Prize winners have hobbies in music or art.
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by rchi 16y ago
it's all about originality, which she clearly lacked.
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by rchi 16y ago
poems are extremely expensive in terms of time. only those with the sharpest mind can afford to create them.
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What do you think of triple your fresh insight by electric brain stimulation?(eurekalert.org)
2 points by rchi 16y ago|0 comments
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by rchi 16y ago
I had similar experience with AirBnb in NY too. It was a week before I wanted to go and it took me about 10 requests to get one that's available.
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by rchi 16y ago
potential counter arguments can be found in daniel pink's interview at econtalk.org http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2010/08/daniel_pink_on.html
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by rchi 16y ago
It's ridiculous to say that there is no talent. obviously, talent, passion, zeitgeist, deliberate practice, luck etc all matter. each factor in your favour nudges your probability towards success. If we could live for a million years, then
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by rchi 16y ago
it's funny that the reward of starting a hedge fund is 'marry that yoga instructor'. 1. seems like a pretty indirect strategy for getting what you want. 2. quite an insult to the yoga teachers.
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by rchi 16y ago
The following is from a talk at the New York Public Library. ERIC SCHMIDT: But in fairness to those people[finance people], had they come to Silicon Valley in 1999 they would have received a far greater payoff during our little bubble. So w
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by rchi 16y ago
What's interesting is that stories like this have been around for decades but never deterred young ivy league grads from joining Goldman when the industry is popular. Now so many people is quick to criticize the finance industry. Although
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by rchi 16y ago
1. If 4 mil at 30 is not enough, it would never be enough. 2. Someone with the drive, intelligence etc to accumulate 4mil by age 30 would be extremely bored retiring at 30. 3. There are different forms of wealth (relationships, experience
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Harvard Finds Researcher 'Solely Responsible' for Misconduct(chronicle.com)
4 points by rchi 16y ago|0 comments
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by rchi 16y ago
on the titanic, 46% of women in the 3rd class was saved whereas only 33% of men in the 1st class survived.
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by rchi 16y ago
how much do a second year trader make at these prop trading firms?
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by rchi 16y ago
how does tradeworx compare to jane street capital?
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by rchi 16y ago
I agree with you that there is a spectrum of risk taking from gambling to investing. Nevertheless both involve taking risk and expecting payoff sometime in the future. Both the estimate of risk and estimate of payoff could be wrong or could
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by rchi 16y ago
I don't know if you can differentiate between gambling and investing in real life. Both activities involve making bets with certain payoff and certain probability in mind. It's often really difficult to know the actual risk you were exposed
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by rchi 16y ago
I guess because only a small minority can earn a living as a musician.
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by rchi 16y ago
I doubt that Obama (with his intellect) genuinely believes that this policy will help the economy at all. Disappointing on so many levels.
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by rchi 16y ago
It's all relative. Our perception of whether a performance is good is dependent on other performances we've heard. 10000 hours only works because most people don't do it.