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quotient

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About quotient

I've been reading HN since January 2012. Recently I decided to begin contributing to the discussion.

I work and do research in Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science. I also have a thorough background in the humanities and arts.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #41716983

    They don't trust you. You should go and look for a new job.

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    Comment #41547628

    I studied in Crerar many joyful times, though long after your tenure there, in the 2010s. It's a great, quiet library. One of my favorites on campus.

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    Comment #38328342

    It's California. Non-competes are void. It is one of the few states where non-competes are not legally enforceable.

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    Comment #38077009

    Besides the point, but FYI you are misusing the term parsimonious.

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    Comment #37893090

    The Facure text is good, can confirm

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    Ask HN: How should non-technical users “pull request” data changes?

    Curious if anyone else has this problem: We have some configuration data that our non-technical, business employees that need to update occasionally. That has to be approved to mak…

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    Ask HN: What are the best books on accounting/finance for CEOs?

    I thought I knew accounting & finance reasonably well as a casual investor in public and private markets, but as with most things -- the deeper I dive, the more I realize how littl…

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    Comment #8534601

    You're being overly dismissive. There's quite clearly a substantial amount of research here, and in a cursory reading I detected no explicitly bombastic claims, which are usually i…

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    Comment #8528861

    I'd like to remark that there's a similar trend that seems to go on in high schools and with college admissions. By all accounts, I've heard that it's not too difficult to attain p…

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    Comment #8520778

    I think you mean "that y is far larger than x"

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    Comment #8485810

    Is that a joke?

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    Comment #8485763

    That's amazing. I really hope that more research is done in (stem) cells. It shows outstanding promise, and it seems safe to assume that this is just the start for a technique of t…

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    Comment #8474335

    As with most applications, it could be a lot smaller. But storage is so cheap and abundant that size is no longer really a constraint. Consequently, engineering for size is no long…

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    Comment #8471862

    This was quite immersive. I think a little more content would've gone a long way to produce a more interesting story.

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    Comment #8457138

    Incredible Accuracy ? You mean retrospectively fitting a logistic model to something known to grow logistically ? I'm not impressed, especially not by retrospective modelling.

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    Comment #8355354

    The metric system contains the SI units. It is extremely commonly used in the scientific setting, due to its capacity for precision and clarity.

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    Comment #8343410

    Your package-sorting and medical-record facility examples strike me as pure gold. I wasn't sold at first, but you seem like a great team leader. As another person wrote, you seem t…

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    Comment #8156482

    Great stuff. Beautiful feeling to the site, though the 'Train' section could do with an explanation as to what you're meant to do on the exercises ('tactics'). I'm tempted to sugge…

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    Comment #8156380

    Well, so, what makes Nigel Richards the best Scrabble Player on Earth? The article does not even answer its own leading question, which is enormously disappointing (though it is ot…

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    Comment #8148142

    Why should the author try to fulfill some sort of gender-quota? The purpose of the article is clearly to collate the top 10 single-founder startups, rather than the top 5 male and …

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    Comment #8070439

    Honestly, I would just write my own HTML/CSS and buy hosting on a server somewhere. This is cheap, and gives you a great deal of control, while also honing your web development ski…

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    Comment #8031858

    Interesting! (Though I suggest changing the somewhat misleading headline.)