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This is really amazing, thanks for building and sharing this!

I don't think "most appeals" is accurate. It's the aesthetic that results in the most profit, which just means that it's optimal in terms of making tradeoffs between level of appea…

Best of luck! Your attitude is really inspiring.

I never said that P/E ratios in the US are "too high". I said that they've been higher in recent years than in past history. This is, as you said, because the amount of money chasi…

The statement about the lack of inflation from QE and other stimulus programs from 2008 is pretty questionable. There's been little inflation as measured using usual consumer price…

I believe my real analysis class made me a significantly better programmer and thinker in general, but I don't use anything specific from it (not yet, anyway).

Look up tax incidence and elasticity of supply / demand curves. Yes, it could definitely be reasonable to assume, from a modeling perspective, that companies currently charge the o…

As someone else said below, treating STEM as one category is absurb and lumps together way too many different majors and careers (that have drastically varying levels of attractive…

Consider the defense industry / government contractors. I'm not sure what kind of salary you're looking for, but the defense industry / gov contractors pay fairly well (I'd guess ~…

Here's a more simple thought experiment that gets across the point of why p(null | significant effect) /= p(significant effect | null), and why p-values are flawed as stated in the…

Make sure you apply to more schools than the three you listed (MIT, Penn State, Stanford). Based on the information you provided in your post, you're definitely not guaranteed to b…

In my opinion, there are plenty of useful things to do as a programmer. There are many non-profit organizations doing important work that would love to have a volunteer programmer.…

That website looks good. Thanks!

Hi, I'm a student who's currently studying computer science and thinking about a double major in applied math. I'm fairly interested in applied math, and I'm wondering if there are…

Common Lisp has macros. Paul Graham's book On Lisp is usually pointed to as the best treatment of macros in Lisp. CL also has many more features than Scheme, as mentioned in the ot…

I'm a full stack developer who's looking for remote, contract work. California, Remote, Full Time | Contract | Part Time Stack: Python, Django, Ruby, Rails, C, Javascript, jQuery, …

Thanks for the reply. The "outsource your job search" link looks interesting and helpful. I did not know about that option before and might try using it now.

Hi HN, I'm a college student who needs to make some money this summer. I've been trying to figure out how to find short-term, contract work. I can work full-time for the next three…

I was primarily thinking of software jobs that involved lots of math, but that's partly because I'm not really aware of what math jobs are out there (and most math jobs seem to req…

Thanks for the great response. I'll also look into computational finance.

Thanks for the comment. High performance and scientific computing jobs seem a lot rarer than AI / machine learning jobs, which is why I think the latter is a better choice for me (…

Thanks for the reply. Based on the answers so far, machine learning does seem to be a good choice.

Thanks for the advice. I actually didn't know that graphics changed very fast. I'm only partly making this decision based on what's in demand. As long as the area is math heavy and…

I'm an undergraduate student who's thinking about a double major in computer science and applied math. I'd like to choose a math heavy, high demand computer science area to special…