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riskneural

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    Comment #14574928

    When did all algorithms become AI?

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    Comment #13601617

    What do you mean by latency in this context?

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    Comment #13601580

    I feel like you build a model which you implement in software. (which runs on hardware)

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    Comment #13578700

    Really interesting. In the end, how did the results compare with the locations of established client firms, e.g. kpmg, accenture, pwc, e and y, deloitte, bcg, mckinsey, bain?

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    Comment #13355000

    Or how positively we view life.

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    Comment #13319754

    Leaving at 5pm is the norm in Germany only in very particular circumstances. Most people I know are stuck until 18:30 or so.

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    Comment #13193574

    This is where the EU view of a company having its customers, its shareholders, and its employees as stakeholders all having rights makes a difference. If your view is shareholder p…

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    Comment #13166211

    So, horribly unreadable xml config files?

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    Comment #13055312

    The term brain teaser was used explicitly. It would have been something data science/statistics related.

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    Comment #13036988

    It's in the original paper in which he derives the normal distribution. Well worth a read. I last had a copy of it in the fourth basement down in the university library about fifte…

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    Comment #13036614

    Try the insurance industry in Germany. I did nine interviews for a gig, got it, and then the budget for the position was cancelled. :)

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    Comment #13036595

    Well, I politely declined the next stage when I heard it was a brain teaser round. I don't really seem to do well in brain teasers. I don't at all get a kick out of puzzles that ar…

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    Comment #12803389

    I find it very hard to make sales calls when somebody non-sales is in the room. The rejection is enough for me without adding judgment :)

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    Comment #12750790

    But Google Maps vans cover land comprehensively, whereas Tesla's "convenience sample" is not comprehensive. However, Tesla's data then covers the relevant data more often. Definite…

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    Comment #12750664

    Expected shortfall, the average of the worst five percent of events, I like more. Easy in Monte Carlo, not analytically.

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    Comment #12507243

    If you have no confidentiality concerns at all in any way in your work, sure... My clients would not be happy with me blasting there stuff over the interwebs.

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    Comment #12254011

    Adam Smith's five reasons to get paid more: 1. Skill. Over the long run, jobs that require higher skill will attract higher wages, or else people won't bother to spend the costs ac…

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    Comment #12224484

    I have heard it referred to as being in a band. Things that people in start ups don't know: getting technical things done in complex environments. I would focus my CV on showing in…

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    Comment #12217677

    I still remember too. 28 days? I was easily off-grid for 28 days. At the moment, we are heavily focusing on "exit strategies" for outsourcing agreements in regulated industries. Ba…

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    Comment #12203259

    Adam Smith makes the argument well in A Wealth of Nations. Essentially, the only reason to invest is that you expect to earn something above on top of the risk. Then add that up ov…

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    Comment #11175040

    The standup in a scrum lets people speak for equal amounts every morning.

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    Comment #11173488

    I'd do three years as an astronaut on cost of living.