xyzzy2020

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by xyzzy2020 6y ago
Used to have IB: that broker is no joke. I would see ads on TV of $7 a trade while I was paying their crazy .001 cents per share or whatever their price was. Great paper trading account, and a Java/C++ API for everything. Plus level-2
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by xyzzy2020 6y ago
I think these are closer to aphorisms than "models of thinking". In that sense take them or leave them if the are applicable to your life. I don't read too deeply into stuff like this..maybe that is talked about in one of the
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by xyzzy2020 6y ago
How does this not break sizeof ?
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by xyzzy2020 6y ago
Can't upvote enough. I think these changes could also be made in a way that can be mechanically-translatable. For example: removing the register keyword, always requiring a return statement, etc etc. A lot of changes can me made that w
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by xyzzy2020 6y ago
I think this is useful even for systems (SW stacks) that are much smaller and "knowable": you start by observing, trying small things, observing more, trying different things, observe more and slowly build a mental model of what i
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by xyzzy2020 7y ago
100% agreed. We might have been on the same team. Don't forget Omnipath and Xeon Phi. Prediction: this new discrete graphics card as well.
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by xyzzy2020 7y ago
Define science the usual way, the essence of science is reproducibility: if you can't achieve that you are not practicing science.
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by xyzzy2020 7y ago
Totally bonkers: economists using science to approach "social science" issues. Social sciences should be ashamed that this is not the norm, we should all be startled and surprised that this is a new thing and evidently people have
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by xyzzy2020 7y ago
I know
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by xyzzy2020 7y ago
Yes that is the physiology barrier that you describe that will be difficult to overcome. The flaw is everyone thinks they will be a better driver than an AI, even though very few actually will be. So if I had to choose my children driving w
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by xyzzy2020 7y ago
I don't get why people are up in arms over this: the average person drives like an I D I O T. A Tesla auto-pilot drives above average. And right now they are driving the worse they will ever drive. Therefore: more auto-pilot, less huma