technofire

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by technofire 8y ago
Jeremy Kun, who writes the "Math ∩ Programming" blog,[1] recently published a book, "A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics,"[2] that seems to leverage the conceptual knowledge programmers already have to help t
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by technofire 8y ago
The study incorporated many more variables than whether marijuana was legal in each state, including demographic factors, so this amounts to a controlled experiment.
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by technofire 9y ago
> the prosperous part of the Southeast For those of us who are unfamiliar or ignorant about this, which parts of the Southeast are most prosperous?
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by technofire 9y ago
Yes, it's called SQL*Plus. Take the time to learn it!
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by technofire 9y ago
> Users want websites to be fast and less annoying. Well, pulling some JSON via AJAX and updating a small part of the page is faster than reloading the entire thing.
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by technofire 9y ago
I think this attitude is silly. Finance academics and banking executives (i.e. Jamie Dimon) who have spent their entire lives studying finance and working in banking are still grappling with this question. Are they also not ready?
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by technofire 9y ago
Well, one theory is that the valuation of bitcoin is largely unrelated to the systematic overvaluation of companies that ostensibly would be the reason behind a crash. Thus when the market start revisiting its value of stocks, this doesn&#
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by technofire 9y ago
Does anyone else find it surprising and remarkable that Paul Tudor Jones' monospaced letter is perfectly flush on the left and right margins with apparently no hyphenation nor additional inserted spaces within the lines? Surely this d
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by technofire 9y ago
> Why would gambling on a companies future ever help anyone Most transactions in the market are not gambling. Trades happen, yes, but that is because the prospects of companies are continually changing. When it became apparent pretty m
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by technofire 9y ago
> despite the fact you can directly purchase their shares Actually, most people could not directly purchase their shares if we didn't have a stock market. Companies in general would be owned only by relatively wealthy people or by
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by technofire 9y ago
I guess I see these as 2 sides of the same coin; if the knowledge was properly spread via training and easy-to-use documentation, the junior developers would not need to interrupt much during the day.
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by technofire 9y ago
> you should at least try and do some time in SV / Seattle etc. I'm curious to know what your current thoughts are behind this. As someone who intentionally has steered clear of both those areas in order to try to optimize fin
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by technofire 9y ago
While I'm not trying to be gratuitously harsh, I ask what have any of the adjunct lecturers in this article really contributed to the world? Not much in my opinion. You don't need someone with a doctorate to teach a student crit
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by technofire 9y ago
> Almost any reasonable paying job other than programmer require actual training and education. Interesting; this contrasts with the claim of liberal arts graduates who maintain that simply being competent critical thinkers is all that&#
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by technofire 9y ago
> punishing the person who's worked to build up some knowledge. ... I disagree that the solution is to let everyone interrupt the one who is trying to get stuff done. In essence we are talking about training new people and so this o
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by technofire 9y ago
> just because Justin Wolfers and Betsey Stevenson aren't married it doesn't mean they aren't committed to each other and their children. From the article: "The decline in marriage was not offset by more couples livin
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by technofire 9y ago
FYI, LinkedIn has somewhat fine-grained email/notification configuration so you can stop these at the source. Have a look at Me (menu) > Settings & Privacy > Communications (tab) > Email frequency (controls not only overal
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by technofire 9y ago
Agreed. Certainly nobody should be hiring based principally on a candidate's alma mater. A candidate should be interviewed to find out that they know what they need to know and have the skills required. Really, college education is
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by technofire 9y ago
The flaw is shown here: https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/38803/is-norber...
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by technofire 9y ago
It was known long before 19 days, actually within a week of publication: https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/38803/is-norber...
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by technofire 9y ago
He has two math degrees from decent (R1, AAU) schools, so I wouldn't say it's a huge leap; he probably has better training for modern AI than most people working in the area with CS degrees.
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by technofire 9y ago
> All of this inevitably leads to a bunch of pissed off devs. The ones that are happy to eat it become the golden boys and get promotions. The question asks about behavior that management repeatedly makes. If management repeatedly makes
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by technofire 9y ago
The funding implies a requirement that you will work on research, which for most people would preclude working a full-time software engineering job. Assuming a full-time job would bring in more income than the tuition plus stipend, when we
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by technofire 9y ago
One reason CEOs are paid so much is to offset the risk involved in accepting the position. If a CEO performs poorly, that's often the end of their career, so the high compensation makes that gamble more acceptable.
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by technofire 9y ago
"Pittsburgh has some important advantages over most would-be startup hubs." --Paul Graham, 2016[1] [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/pgh.html
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by technofire 9y ago
> as well as the characters While I cannot recommend any books on physics itself, I can recommend a couple light reads on Richard Feynman, the Nobel prize-winning physicist (links below). Each is structured as a series of short autobiog
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by technofire 9y ago
Very cool! When you say you "collect the data from Amazon," are you scraping this or using an API? If the latter, which API and where can I go to read about it? I also would love to be able to query this kind of information fro
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by technofire 9y ago
I have 2 recommendations: 1. "Thinking Strategically," written by a professor at the Yale School of Management and an economics professor at Princeton.[1] This one is basically a primer on game theory, which I think would be usefu
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by technofire 9y ago
Perhaps a better question is "Why is anything normally distributed?" It appears originally to have been a simplification to make the math more convenient: As Rand Wilcox reports, "Why did Gauss assume that a plot of many obs
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by technofire 9y ago
O'Reilly just published an updated edition of their bestseller on Bitcoin technology, "Mastering Bitcoin," earlier this month.[1] For a more general/conceptual understanding of blockchain technology and its applications,

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