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People have been saying Buffet is a lucky outlier for decades. Is his success in the following decades survivorship bias or a valid ex post facto test of success? If you believed i…

It's interesting that the 20y compound return are pretty close. I don't understand the STDev value in the tables, and it is not explained. Is that the the standard deviation of the…

This Freakonomics-style argument doesn't work. The only price that matters is the market clearing price. Appraisers don't know that more than anybody else. The only thing an indepe…

More bikeshedding for the new year: #!/bin/bash for n in {1..100}; do f= ((n % 3)) || f=Fizz ((n % 5)) || f+=Buzz echo ${f:-$n} done

I disagree there are no consequences. Broken ribs have been known to occur.[0] [0] https://www.viarob.com/my/page/Snowtorturing

RadiaSoft | Research Software Engineer | Boulder, CO | FULL-TIME | ONSITE | http://rsl.link/rse RadiaSoft is an open-source software company dedicated to improving scientific workf…

goalkicker.com is related to codeday.top afaict. They are the only two sites on Google that match some of the snippets. CodeDay is a machine translation blog which is very sophisti…

Technology and Development (T&D) is directly related to computing, not content acquisition or sales. Computing costs are significant in this category, since they point them out exp…

I would think it would be a significant shareholder event to save 64% of their total computing budget. Their 2016 10K https://ir.netflix.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1628280-17-496..…

Something is wrong with the math: * Video encoding is 70% of Netflix's computing needs * Stated cost savings on encoding is 92% This equals a 64% savings on "Netflix's computing ne…

In the HPC world, there are many of these: SLURM, Torque, PBS.

Excellent article, thanks.

I work in IT, because I fell in love with computers when I was nine. I get paid the same as you. My skill at being able to "juggle seven clubs" has no value. You know how to google…