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Same here, from both interns we've had who took a class of hers.. It's eye-opening that the salary of an adjunct faculty member at Cal with 100% appointment with classes taught to …

When your family and kids appear, work stops being a 0-sum game. Instead, you're constantly arbitraging between it and the rest of your life. The good news is that you can recognis…

Hasselblad has its roots in military optics and space-constrained imaging solutions. They have made many professional surveillance systems over the years with smaller sensors. Hope…

Burgers and sausages are some of the most detached ways to eat meat. While a steak has bones, a burger is much more abstract. There is probably a good anthropological theory behind…

Which is why you should always separate a transaction into smaller chunks - you could liquidate 20% of a position once per week.

Banks do compete but it's not really an iterated game - a company only goes public once.

Almost everything that one would need for daily subsistence is tied to benchmark future contracts: cattle, soy beans, rice, wheat, sugar, coffee are all traded as futures on exchan…

Chronicle Software's OpenHFT stack has a few of their libraries: https://github.com/OpenHFT

Such competitions might have two goals in mind: recruiting and signal diversification. The recruiting angle is obvious. Any alpha that is not fully correlated to existing alpha is …

The effect will only be seen in the future, smoothed over a few years.

C&JC figured a way to finance their projects through a few big landmark donations along with a proto Kickstarter campaign. They would sell numbered plans and drawings with a deep d…

Yes: as usual with disease the poorest countries are going to be hit the hardest. If you think that Lombardy's medical facilities are bad, this will be quite the next level.

Is this the hype train? Yes to a large extent. However some people at a16z do know what they are talking about. Ex: Vijay Pande is a partner there and an (adjunct) professor of Bio…

It depends on the type of derivatives. Consider commodity products: basic materials such as iron ore or coal or softs such as cocoa or wheat. Their (spot) prices used to be extreme…

Yes. I am OK with accepting tracking cookies on other sites but I just close the tabs if they I see anything related to Oath as a matter of principle.

Every doctor tends to have a very static sensitivity-specificity preferences (true positive rate aka recall and true negative rate, respectively). One of the interesting consequenc…

That's the whole concept of kaizen, or improvement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen

McKinsey has a lot of Chinese walls internally: most partners and consultants who have been working for one client would never advise that client's competitors. The firm is very ca…

TLO is a Zerg player, so he probably does a lot more errors when playing Protoss. Also, every top player estimates when to do a sequence of actions and spams it a few times to maxi…

Just a reminder that Google, or any company for that matter, has a fiduciary duty towards their shareholders to file a patent for everything they have learned about and that hasn't…

David Freedman has this following dialogue in his Statistical Models: Theory and Practice book: Philosophers' stones in the early twenty-first century Correlation, partial correlat…

In yoga, this technique is called "virtual" Nadi Shodana or alternative nostril breathing. There are many variants, A/B tested for centuries, that might work better for different p…

Could AMD open-sourcing their (hopefully incoming) stack of learning libraries be a competitive edge for them? They are far behind but this could be an important step.

There is also something else: some funds have become so good in putting the right orders in the book that they don't need statistics so much to generate alpha.