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What's involved in building a site like this? I am subscribed to an industry forum in the beverage space where people buy and sell equipment using forum posts - t's really ineffici…

I'm an actuary - from your site bio it appears you may be as well. As you know, P/C insurance carriers have been using machine learning for quite some time. What is it that you are…

Look into writing apps for Shopify, many are quite simple and charge a fee.

The models as described in the article do seem to have glaring flaws. However, the article did not show that anyone has been killed based on the models alone.

With respect to adversarial examples for random forests, that link states: Myth: Deep learning is more vulnerable to adversarial examples than other kind of machine learning. Fact:…

I don't disagree with the math, but wouldn't it be the case that it's easier to get a biased sample from 1000/100M people than 1000/1M people? For instance, maybe your sampling ign…

Best of luck to you, I am not in the industry and cannot recommend from that perspective. As a consumer though, augmented reality ( eg Hololens and Magic Leap) seems like it is abo…

Wait But Why on a similar theme: http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html

HPMOR was fantastic - very well done re-imagining of Harry Potter with Harry as a rationalist, challenging long-held beliefs about magic. Plot, pacing, etc. were great. Really infl…

Yes.

I worked with a large company preparing for Solvency II. My impression was that it would generally increase regulatory capital requirements, not decrease.

Actuary here, though I don't work with these types of policies. Your description of how insurance makes money is the standard understanding. However, I would think that most produc…

Actuary here. I don't have the math at my fingertips, but to confidently estimate the risk of any occurrence you need a significant sample of the event, not just a significant amou…

Just because a smart gun won't solve the problem of gang violence doesn't mean they should not exist.

I don't know personally, but presumably companies designing these guns have thought of the same concerns and made the rings to be durable and sizable. Re battery dying - if I was d…

What specific case are you afraid of? You are outside in the wintertime with a gun concealed on your person, and a would-be assailant comes along? Then get the kind that uses a rin…

They are very powerful in that almost no politician is willing to act against their interests. Please correct me if that impression is wrong.

Don't people have guns for self defense? What if someone invades your home in the middle of the night - do you want to have to start fiddling around with your gun vault?

> if I'm wearing gloves Are you currently holding the gun? If not, take off the gloves and then pick up the gun. > if I lose the ring or it comes off Same thing that happens if you…

As a parent of small children, if I were ever to buy a gun I would want to have a smart gun. Seems to me the real obstacle is the NJ law that would restrict regular gun sales once …

Did John Draper pioneer the field of maritime breakfast?