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    Comment #24351801

    Serious question: Why weren't the exams taken? Everything I have read about this glosses over this critical bit which I am very curious about. I understand there is/was a worldwide…

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    Comment #23058779

    Absolutely. I just focused in finding good weight allocations for the given risk, but changing the objective function given to the negative of the sharpe ratio should get you good …

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    Comment #23058200

    Yes, exactly. I was looking to solve the second problem, not the former. Following the secretary rule is good strategy for a lot of things, but I think we actually have more inform…

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    Comment #23058193

    Hey there, author here. I am not super well versed on the secretary problem but I think some people have already looked into it for AC [1]. In general, what I was looking was to as…

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    Comment #23058177

    Hey there, author here. For sure, I hinted at this on the last paragraph of the post. The interesting bit is that if you do that you will build a more diversified portfolio (as the…

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    Comment #13035512

    I'm very sorry to sound harsh, but you have a fundamental misunderstanding on how economy works. It's not the government who choses an exchange rate (or for that matter, the value …

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    Comment #13033928

    Do you honestly believe Chavez would not be in this position? Seriously? (de pana?) Venezuela was doing 'great' because oil prices were soaring, which in turn made dubious economic…

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    Comment #10264933

    Alon Halevy is pretty big in the field of data integration. Some of my undergrad project was about improving certain aspects on his work on LAV integration. You might also find his…

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    Comment #10252778

    Colombia is inelegible for DV lottery.

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    Comment #9772253

    I was looking into this. Sadly it requires that I provide a LinkedIn profile which I don't have.

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    Comment #8511804

    He's talking about ISWC, which was last week.

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    Comment #8499111

    Less powerful.

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    Comment #7736134

    Also, checkout potassco ASP solver. Beautiful work and superb performance. YMMV.

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    Comment #7016049

    What does recruting as a monetization strategy means? That is, what is recruting? Truly curious.

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    Comment #6341685

    Somebody in the OP already commented about ostringstream and the article was updated accordingly. ostringstream is better, and I suposse more idiomatic.

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    Comment #6296177

    The book by Cormen et al. has a fantastic explanation of the FFT too.