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bobdosherman

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    Comment #43895098

    Writing sharpens your thoughts. Working math problems sharpens your ability to do math. In the context of the education system though, where grades are a signal of future ability, …

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    Comment #36226511

    There are way too many link-in-bio products out there that all do relatively the same thing

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    Comment #35281410

    I used call point-and-click statistical software (like JMP) was the same as giving people who didn't know what they were doing a loaded gun. But democratizing access to advanced st…

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    Comment #29810958

    - Slide 38 has inconsistent signs for their cost of revenue line. Come on GS...you guys are left-lead. - They love to highlight their LTV/CAC ratio, so let me say that their choice…

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    Comment #29607541

    There also seems to be confusion that ESPN+ is equivalent to ESPN, but ESPN+ does not carry the linear programming of ESPN. Using part of the $15 YouTube TV discount to purchase ES…

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    Comment #29031354

    If I estimate a model to predict an anomaly using data that never has any realized anomalies, how well will that model do out-of-sample? While framing this as a bad unrestricted RO…

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    Comment #27065623

    A lot of this comes down to preferences, and my preference ordering would be: Ads that attempt to take me all the way from browsing-->discovery-->potential purchase-->purchase I vi…

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    Comment #25626049

    Could also cross-subsidize by being a sub-affiliate network as part of an affiliate network. Company earns percentage of affiliate commissions produced by in-network links, which s…

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    Comment #24461905

    Linear regression does not require errors to be iid, normal, and homoscedastic for it to "work". One of the ways to separate candidates is to push on what (and how) assumptions can…