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i love this comment, 100% agree and where were you in my childhood my friend?

Nice explainer of the `g-and-h` distribution with interactive slider applying the quantile function, helps build an intuition for the function and how it transforms distributions.

this might be a bit vague so to put another way perhaps I learned to zoom in before zooming out, and once I have done something, it never hurts to zoom in again and see what can be…

my aha moment as a developer - I would learn some technology to a point where it does what I want - I take what I learned to some new technology but find myself doing things from w…

This is a disturbing trend by IBs flexing their legal might against their (former) software engineers. Before automated trading systems there were traders who carried their strateg…

In my opinion the most important skill is philosophy, I think someone once asked "To be X or !X?" Without philosophy we have nothing, no science or math. If greatness is doing the …

Here's a link to that article on The Economist that states there are too many people doing too much of _everything_ and life is hard in general. Oh wait, that doesn't exist yet per…

Man these are some awesome comments. "Self proclaimed" Rockstars != craftsman. Those who earned the title. Guido vonRossum et. al. are having their five minutes, let them have it, …