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by throwaway13qf85 12y ago
Intuitively, it is to indicate degree of 'truthiness'. Certainly false {F} is less truthy than either both true and false {T,F} and neither true nor false {}, which are in turn less truthy than certainly true {T}. The Hasse diagra
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by throwaway13qf85 12y ago
In case anyone is turned off by the expectation of wishy-washy flim-flam, it's worth noting that Graham Priest may be a professor of philosophy, but is most well known for his work in logic, particularly in non-standard logics (i.e. no
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by throwaway13qf85 12y ago
> Do people ever go to poor areas to enjoy themselves? Absolutely! There are many poor areas in London (Whitechapel, Brixton or Dalston, for example) but the idea that you would have to avoid them is crazy. In fact there are great reason
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by throwaway13qf85 12y ago
So your advice is - to enjoy SF, stay in the expensive areas, and get a taxi if you need to go through the poor areas, or the parts where there might be homeless people?
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by throwaway13qf85 12y ago
I don't think you understand what the phrase "elephant in the room" means. If lots of people are talking about something (and certainly, a lot of people are talking about the tech sector vs the rest of the economy) then it&#x
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A Futile War on Drugs that Wastes Money and Wrecks Lives(ft.com)
1 points by throwaway13qf85 12y ago|0 comments
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by throwaway13qf85 12y ago
Nice work. There's a similar article which uses Haskell as the base language instead of Python, which is also worth reading (this is actually how I learned both Haskell and Scheme..!) https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/
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by throwaway13qf85 12y ago
William Faulkner once criticised Ernest Hemingway by saying that he "had never been known to use a word that might send the reader to the dictionary." Hemingway responded by saying, "Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big em
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by throwaway13qf85 12y ago
To explain the flaw in the reasoning, it's easiest to generalize - y = x ^ (x ^ x ^ x ^ ...) = x ^ y and hence x = y ^ (1/y) = exp( 1/y * log(y) ) which is defined for y > 0. Graphing this usi
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by throwaway13qf85 12y ago
This is very much a beginner's book. When I interviewed for internships in the summer of 2008, the interviewers expected that I would already be familiar with a large portion of the content of this book.
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by throwaway13qf85 12y ago
I don't think there's anything wrong with what they say. Your chance of winning one round of RPS is 1/3. Out of three games you win once, lose once and draw once on average. If you replay when a draw occurs, then of course
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by throwaway13qf85 12y ago
To clarify for the poster who asked you the question, playing aggressively might mean better more than your hand otherwise dictates, but it might also mean betting more often even if you don't change your bet size. For example, you
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Why are there exactly 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons on a soccer ball?(math.stackexchange.com)
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by throwaway13qf85 12y ago
Is that the Georgia Tech/Tucker Balch course? I'm amazed that GT let him teach that course. It's full of errors, omissions and bad habits. I vaguely followed along, and the most noticeable thing was how much the students comp
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by throwaway13qf85 12y ago
It really depends on what you're trying to achieve. The skills and knowledge necessary for long-term equity investment, short-term statistical arbitrage, derivative pricing and high-frequency trading are all quite different.
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by throwaway13qf85 12y ago
The page you linked to is Dimensional explaining their five factor model, and it sounds like they only use that as a basis for a more complicated model. The very example you gave to support your point actually detracts from it.
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by throwaway13qf85 12y ago
I don't think I would call CAPM, the Fama-French 3-factor model, VaR, Black-Scholes and GARCH "the best of the best". I would probably call the selection of topics "finance basics that no one in industry uses any more&qu
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by throwaway13qf85 12y ago
I would be more forthright - the Haskell book was a travesty that never should have been published and I wouldn't want to inflict it on anyone (I have experience with all three of Haskell, quant finance and modelling & analytics an
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by throwaway13qf85 12y ago
Does anyone know if this is any good? I don't think that Packt is a particularly reputable publisher. They published a similar book about Haskell (called "Haskell Financial Data Modelling and Predictive Analytics") which was
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by throwaway13qf85 12y ago
I'm not going to claim that it improves my creativity or makes me a better person, but for the last few years I've generally taken at least a half hour out of the middle of my workday to walk (I'm lucky enough to work next to
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by throwaway13qf85 12y ago
I'm really excited by Julia. We use Matlab heavily in my team (as in, we probably have 300-600 Matlab instances running at any given time not counting the ones on personal workstations) and I'd love to use a language with similar
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by throwaway13qf85 12y ago
It's tough for someone who's not a professional musician to tell the difference between a just fifth (3:2) and an equal tempered fifth (2^(7/12):1) but it's not impossible. Probably the easiest way is to go to a piano an
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by throwaway13qf85 12y ago
It's important to note that the top answer is hand-tuned to work with that specific image. It probably doesn't generalize well.
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by throwaway13qf85 12y ago
There's no risk of going to jail for 10+ years.
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by throwaway13qf85 12y ago
Fair point. I expect the people making serious bank aren't the kind to grant an interview to a journalist at The Atlantic .
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by throwaway13qf85 12y ago
We're not talking about the corner boys - I've read Freakonomics too, I know they are earning next to nothing. We're talking about someone running a large scale distribution operation supplying a huge metropolitan region in t
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by throwaway13qf85 12y ago
I found this sentence interesting - I surmised that Viktor serves a large segment of the East Coast and personally takes in $24,000 to $32,000 per month after all his other costs are covered. Let's say he takes in an average
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by throwaway13qf85 12y ago
The second kind of quote-stuffing you mention, where you place larger orders outside the best bid/offer with the intention of distorting the order book (aka spoofing, see comment below) is certainly nefarious. But it's a special k
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by throwaway13qf85 12y ago
"A browser plugin that replaces occurrences of the word 'literally' with 'figuratively'. That's figuratively all it does."
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by throwaway13qf85 12y ago
Haskell -> XMonad

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