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There are an awful lot of referrer links in this article. That's not a bad thing by itself, but it always makes me ask the question - Did this person write the article they wanted …

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” -- Upton Sinclair http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/21810-it-is-difficult…

That article is wrong on quite a few key points, and misleading on others. > Mark will deduct the fair value of his gift to his foundation from his taxable income in the year he ma…

Presumably you think that the people running the study didn't think of this? Here's a quote from a New York Times article about the project - > In the second year of the tournament…

My interpretation in layman's terms of what this paper has proved - Take an infinite sequence of +1 and -1, for example 1, 1, -1, 1, -1, -1, -1, 1, 1, -1, ... You get an evenly spa…

Interestingly, with Joe Biden in the range (10%, 13.5%) to win the nomination, and (7.7%, 8.3%) to win the Presidency, the lowest his electability could be is 7.7% / 13.5% = 57% an…

That would be equivalent to not ticking any of the boxes.

I checked them after I'd submitted the survey. The only real words that I hadn't ticked were "regolith" (I was almost sure it was a real word, but I didn't know the meaning of it),…

=== SPOILER ALERT! === The most interesting question, to me, is the one about which words you know the meaning of. About half of them aren't real words. I assume this question is u…

Remember that a hedge fund only sees 20% of the profit that it generates on behalf of its investors, and a large part of that goes into staffing and infrastructure costs, not to me…

> If you back test over the past 5 years then you are only testing your model against a huge bull market. If your model is long as often as it is short (either cross-sectionally or…

For those who didn't get it - mjd is the author of the blog post linked to. Although he's also right that it's a stupid comment that deserves downvotes :)

Like I said, "you will never be able to completely avoid advertising without taking yourself out of mainstream society" and "second-order advertising is much harder to deal with". …

I agree completely. I think you have a moral obligation to yourself to avoid advertising as much as is reasonably possible. This means not watching television (unless you're paying…

As I said, in Haskell "unquantified type variables are implicitly universally quantified" i.e. type variables (which are always lowercase in Haskell, to distinguish them from concr…

It's not clear to me why it's necessary to include at the start of the function definition. In Haskell, unquantified type variables are implicitly universally quantified, i.e. you …

This is actually very cool! It's interesting to play around with strategies for using your retirement income, e.g. 0.02 * [Savings] with the idea of making your overall income path…

Responds "Yes" to 9007199254740990, 9007199254740991, 9007199254740992 but "No" to 9007199254740991, 9007199254740992, 9007199254740993 Presumably this is due to how Javascript han…

I don't think the satire was particularly subtle!

Well, I'm glad that Londoners have collectively decided to tell the rebranders where to stick it. I've lived in London for ten years and have never heard someone refer to "Midtown"…

> I had drinks with one of the $1 billion "unicorn" CEOs last night, in a trendy Noho bar in London. Where the hell is "Noho"? Is this some ridiculous attempt to Americanize London…

My favorite analysis of Buffon's needle is this one, which pulls out the correct probability of intersection without any calculus - Consider a straight needle of length L dropped o…