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by rorygreig 5y ago
Looks like the idea for this was based on a medium post by Brian Armstrong: https://medium.com/@barmstrong/ideas-on-how-to-improve-scien...
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From Complexity to Perplexity (1995)(www2.econ.iastate.edu)
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Letter from Utopia – Nick Bostrom(nickbostrom.com)
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by rorygreig 8y ago
The fact that trend following strategies are becoming less effective could be interpreted as a positive thing implying that markets are becoming more efficient, as trend following shouldn't work in a completely efficient market. Trend
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by rorygreig 8y ago
My understanding is that CTA is a general term for a hedge fund that uses trend following strategies, primarily trading futures, but not actually restricted to commodities, so it's not a particularly accurate name, just industry jargon
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by rorygreig 8y ago
There's an irony to this being an article from the Washington Post, maybe they know something we don't
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Amazon's HQ2 Search Is About Politics, Too(bloomberg.com)
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by rorygreig 8y ago
Does that include the energy used to pump the water after processing? From what I understand the most energy-intensive part of desalination is pumping it to where people can actually use it.
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by rorygreig 9y ago
Good point, I suppose "69%" accuracy doesn't actually mean that much unless you consider the odds. I'm pretty sure I could predict Real Madrid vs. my local home town team with better than 69% accuracy, but that doesn&#x2
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by rorygreig 9y ago
This seems too good to be true. If they could actually predict football results with better-than-random accuracy, then why wouldn't they just use this themselves to make loads of money on betting markets?
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Amazon Developing Consider Phlebas as Fantasy Drama Series(variety.com)
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Newcomb's Problem and Regret of Rationality(lesswrong.com)
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Canadian Gaelic(en.wikipedia.org)
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by rorygreig 9y ago
milkdrop was incredible, I'm surprised there's no other visualizer that is anywhere close
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Black Box (1999) [pdf](bearcave.com)
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Why Model? (2008)(jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk)
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by rorygreig 9y ago
Apparently around a half of Deepmind's AI specialists are Canadian educated, so no surprises here.
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by rorygreig 9y ago
There are also several places in Nova Scotia that speak Scottish Gaelic. A lot of the road signs in Cape Breton are in Gaelic
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by rorygreig 10y ago
I wonder how long it takes to render each frame. Eventually with fast enough GPUs you could render a video game in this style, now that I would like to see.
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by rorygreig 10y ago
They also spelled San Francisco incorrectly (San Fransisco)
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by rorygreig 11y ago
I think it has been rotated to fit inside Africa better. If you spawn it by typing in USA it fits back after you drag it.
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by rorygreig 11y ago
There's a Mythbusters episode where they make a boat out of Pykrete, it's pretty awesome.
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by rorygreig 12y ago
Why is the fact that it's not self-governing relevant to the article? If the violence statistics cited apply to the (country/nation/administrative region/chunk of land) that is England, then surely that's all that m
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Show HN: TradeSafe – Know Your Customer(teamtradesafe.com)
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