zippy5

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by zippy5 2y ago
My understanding is that it was more the 9000 bank failures effectively created a credit crunch. Like if a bank closes and there's no replacement, then most small business were unable to get loans. Farmers who couldn't afford to p
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by zippy5 4y ago
But what if the DJ convinces his audience to invest in a much larger and more expensive night club at an extraordinary premium. Then it might make sense to buy the original night club just to protect the DJ’s scheme. My math is that Musk’s
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by zippy5 5y ago
I mean, 90% of large cap investors have underperformed the sp500. It's not about optimal returns, it's about diversification and portfolio risk. The Saudi's want some of their money in things that aren't correlated with
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by zippy5 5y ago
I think you can decompose a calculus course into three key components; principle/concepts, proofs, and procedurally solvable math problems. All three have value but clearly the math problem aspect of it has depreciated in value due to
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by zippy5 5y ago
This is wonderful. I’m going to see if there is anything I can build for this.
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by zippy5 5y ago
I think it could be Nobel Prize worthy. Protein’s structure often determines its effect as a catalyst. So to map the DNA to the 2nd order outcomes seems like it could be the missing ingredient to controlling the properties of cells. Persona
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by zippy5 5y ago
It seems to me that there are two ways to learn well. One is to have a carefully curated curriculum and the other is to have enough experience to parse the world by yourself. In humans we might describe these as knowledge/education and
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by zippy5 5y ago
I’d say that the first premise is objectively false. I think it’s much simpler. The volatility of asset has correlated narratives of hope and fear in the mind of the asset holder. These in turn produce a dopamine response, akin to mechanism
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by zippy5 5y ago
He replaced his marketing department with a R&D department. It really doesn’t have to work, just keep the believers believing.
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by zippy5 5y ago
I want to apologize, I definitely don’t intend to fear monger and most definitely not want to imply that I have expertise. Roughly my level of understanding is mostly that of a low level undergrad and you should treat my naiveness as such.
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by zippy5 5y ago
It’s not really a comprehensive interpretation of intercalation but I think a geometric interpretation can help some non-chemists understand how intercalating molecules bind to dna. From the purely geometric model, some of the molecules you
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by zippy5 5y ago
I used to work on DNA dyes. Typically when you see a 6 carbon ring with a chain of carbons attached, there is high probability of that molecule interfering with DNA replication. Basically the mechanism works because the hexagon ring slides
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by zippy5 5y ago
My interpretation is that is why it’s so brilliant. It’s incredibly simple for the end user conceptually but encapsulates optimizing processing across a distributed file system, fault tolerance, shuffling key value pairs, job stage planning
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by zippy5 5y ago
I think the example of the railroad is biased by the exact same phenomenon. From 1900, In the next 10 years you would see the mass production of automobiles and the invention of the airplane. Basically it’s the story of disruption told from
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by zippy5 5y ago
I do think there is some real signal in this article in addition to the survivorship bias. 1) Noting that the stock market was boring I think is real indicator of the mass psychology of that time. There is definitely a inverse correlation b
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by zippy5 5y ago
I feel the opposite. My understanding is that BE-4 is hydrogen based rocket engine which really has never been executed successfully before where raptors are methane. Blue origin is going from 0 to 1 and space x is going from n to n+1. Obvi
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by zippy5 5y ago
So for example, the author saw that supply chain team had difficulty managing the complexity and scale of their analysis in large part due to the scalability of their spreadsheet solution. I would have pushed them to use Airtable which is b
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by zippy5 5y ago
So my assumption is that for a given business model, like e-commerce or Saas business much of the highest value analysis is fairly standardized and can be templated. For example breaking down conversion rate by weekly cohort is something th
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by zippy5 5y ago
This was wonderfully written and if your gonna start a data team, this is how you do it. But I can see that I’m the only one who thought it was crazy to start a data team in the first place. This company makes 10M and spends 3M on the team
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by zippy5 5y ago
I somewhat agree that a gritty person shouldn’t keep a fast food job, but some of the Uber drivers I meet are incredibly gritty. They work incredibly long hours and grind on multiple apps. They have well thought out strategies for how to ma
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by zippy5 5y ago
SSN were never really secret. For the most part the first 5 digits are a derivative of when and where you were born (public record) and you’ve given out the last 4 to every financial institution and employer. You last part is spot on. Basic
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by zippy5 5y ago
If the people looking to learning about this subject have the “dark ages” misconception, is it so bad to make it easy to find via search and then explaining the nuances of the misnomer?
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by zippy5 6y ago
At quantum scale or near the speed of light newtonian mechanics breaks down, so we know it a local approximation. However, for set circumstances it approximates it does it well. For many decades physists searched universally true theory to
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by zippy5 6y ago
Your completely missing the point.. Honda sells commodities. Maserati sells status. Motorola sells commodities. Apple sells status. Computers are commodities, smart phones are commodities and at the end of day none of that stops people from
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by zippy5 6y ago
It’s one thing to pay a highly competent person 6 figures. It’s an entirely different thing if you can’t fire them. I’m not saying that the government doesn’t need more competent people but it’s not going to work if there’s a bigger carrot
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by zippy5 6y ago
The other side is that the peak of American prosperity occurred post WWII where a majority of the developed world (any country that had experienced an industrial revolution), was blown to shreds. This gave the US roughly a temporary monopol
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by zippy5 6y ago
I think it’s worth noting that popularity isn’t always deterministic or meritocratic. I once read about an experiment where users would listen to music and and the platform counted the number of listens and showed users. When the experiment
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by zippy5 6y ago
Very few software engineer are working on something that 27m people want to experience per engineer on the project. Any engineer who can build something that 27m people want and get it to them can make far more than average.
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by zippy5 6y ago
Hypothetically, it seems that your problem has to do surfaces being reflective in the visible light spectrum. Do you have any luck with ultrasonic, ultraviolet, or IR sensors? Also I was also thinking about how light source estimation might
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by zippy5 6y ago
I respectfully disagree. New technologies don't intrinsically expand the pie, lowering the price/performance ratio does. D2C and SAAS lower the cost of distribution which historically been a significant markup on goods. The consum

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