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Millennium Tower Is Sinking Faster Than Rate ‘Limit' Set by Fix Engineers(nbcbayarea.com)
2 points by tvladeck 5y ago|1 comments
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“Breakthrough infections” is a bad name(tvladeck.substack.com)
1 points by tvladeck 5y ago|0 comments
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by tvladeck 5y ago
I would really love to use Julia, and for my team to as well. But we are too locked into R to even begin. If I were these folks, I would focus on the flow, not stock, of data analysts. Get the next generation locked in to Julia. Turn R into
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How much is (not taking) the vaccine worth it to you?(tvladeck.substack.com)
1 points by tvladeck 5y ago|0 comments
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Applying deep learning to survey data at scale(tvladeck.substack.com)
1 points by tvladeck 5y ago|0 comments
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by tvladeck 5y ago
Hello, author here. I found this the analogy between voting and machine learning to be an interesting one, as voting is essentially a classification task. Popular votes are bagging, representative democracy is stacking -- it's pretty c
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What machine learning has to say about voting eligibility(tvladeck.substack.com)
1 points by tvladeck 5y ago|1 comments
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Three Revolutions in Data Science(tvladeck.substack.com)
1 points by tvladeck 5y ago|0 comments
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by tvladeck 6y ago
I always hate these comparisons because they always compare market capitalization and not enterprise value. On the latter metric, which is independent of how a company is financed, Intel is still more valuable. Intel is still "worth mo
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Using State Space Models to Estimate Rt(tomvladeck.com)
1 points by tvladeck 6y ago|0 comments
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by tvladeck 6y ago
I'm not even a software engineer. Lowly MBA that writes R code. even I understood the gist. But the part that I understood well is that _this was a HackerOne managed program_, meaning that it's HackerOne's job to take a raw s
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by tvladeck 7y ago
Seems like a classic case of market unraveling: http://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2009/06/unraveling.html
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by tvladeck 7y ago
This article really, _really_ needs to cite Getting to Yes, or at least their authors, William Ury and Robert Fisher, who developed these ideas, and even this terminology.
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Hypnosis Changed My Life(nytimes.com)
1 points by tvladeck 7y ago|0 comments
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by tvladeck 7y ago
This logic falls into a cul de sac when you realize that many open problems can only be solved by new technology.
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After Sparring, NASA and SpaceX Declare a Shared Mission(nytimes.com)
1 points by tvladeck 7y ago|0 comments
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by tvladeck 7y ago
Like when an individual drives to a store to get groceries?
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by tvladeck 7y ago
+1, I still can't access it.
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by tvladeck 7y ago
My guess (and this is just a guess, as I too can't read the article), is that the investment was a convertible note, and they actually paid back the debt instead of allowing it to convert into equity. But I am no expert and I don'
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by tvladeck 7y ago
FWIW I still hit the paywall when I click on that link (and the other one referenced as bypassing the paywall)
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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Is Behaving Strangely(theatlantic.com)
8 points by tvladeck 7y ago|0 comments
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by tvladeck 7y ago
Came here to agree with you. Tons of great wings spots here. Also, The Infatuation is great for NYC restaurant reviews.
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by tvladeck 7y ago
it doesn't make internal investment impossible. it just changes the pockets it comes out of. well, actually it doesn't even do that, because either way it would be coming out of the cash owned by the PE shops, whether it sits on t
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by tvladeck 7y ago
yes, in the sense that everything that's on the cap table (including special dividends, etc.) won't affect the P&L, except for the interest payments. but investors in the company treat interest payments separately, because it&
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by tvladeck 7y ago
> if PE didn't burden them by taking out loans against the company's assets if this were the true problem, i.e. if there were a profitable business that just wasn't making enough income to service its debt, then the enterp
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by tvladeck 7y ago
> a lot of redundant df assignments either that or a profusion of variables going into your global environment, which is a massive pain to track!
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by tvladeck 7y ago
there is no such thing as a "fair price"
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by tvladeck 7y ago
Next step: hide follower counts.
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by tvladeck 7y ago
Care to share your query string? I can't find it
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by tvladeck 7y ago
Not enough to be the _main_ mode of communication, but definitely an important part of my team’s remote communications. I run www.gradientmetrics.com, and we’re a (very small) distributed team. We often do screencasts with voiceovers to sho

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