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Monetate Labs | Data Scientist | Conshohocken, PA (outside Philadelphia) | Full Time | ONSITE Monetate Labs is currently looking to hire a data scientist. We are a small team (curr…

Ah, right you are! Thanks for correcting my mistake :)

There is also the interesting interpretation of logistic regression as a latent choice/utility model, where unobserved variation in utility is modeled using the logistic distributi…

Eliminating side effects is about a lot more than variable scope. One example would be reading from/writing to a file.

This. She worked to accommodate your dream, have the decency to to swallow your pride for a bit.

I never set out specifically to donate, but every year I end up giving to pit bull rescues, local animal shelters, and Oxfam.

I was just about to say that this is what about four out of the six years of my math PhD have felt like. (And it's not quite done yet...May cannot get here soon enough!)

A PhD worth getting should not involve you paying tuition. Much of the time your tuition is waived and you earn a small stipend (just enough to live frugally off of) teaching/worki…

Just noticed that on my iPad, will look into it.

I'll put a follow up on some other sequential tests into my list of blog-posts-to-do and let you know when it happens.

Haha, yes, I am the author. I do have a very formal style, an unfortunate product of too many years in grad school. The SPRT is a nice toy test, but only useful for point hypothese…

In addition to the preposterousness of investing more than a company's market cap, I'd be interested in seeing this strategy backtested. Lots of random crap works over short time s…

This post is fantastic and the paper is fascinating. I particularly enjoyed his writing: > This is why God, in Her wisdom and mercy, gave us the bootstrap.