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smabie

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About smabie

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    Comment #44212051

    The original sin of Pandas is row indices

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    Comment #42885431

    People outside the industry just use that as cope because they making way less money. "How do you live with yourself making high 6 fig / 7 figs a yr?" Quite easily in fact.

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    Comment #41758578

    Don't most array languages have first class functions?

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    Comment #41752860

    LTCM wasn't really an options selling fund though selling equity options did become a big trade for them Also they were more of advisors in the fund then anything else

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    Comment #41752838

    Safer bet would be to hold short term treasures.

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    Comment #41752827

    Why? the mean can be negative?

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    Comment #41747767

    Turns out mediocre code is fine most of the time though

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    Comment #41742338

    Or you could beat the guy up

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    Comment #41742322

    With a 10% edge you really don't need to be very good And in fact if these guys were good they wouldn't be banning people at all

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    Comment #41721266

    Actually in reality these so called professionals will diagnose you almost immediately

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    Comment #41721254

    Or maybe they don't need an abstraction and just think they do because it's easier than the alternative.

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    Comment #41709946

    Having had a few interactions with the Indonesian government, the Netherlands should have just kept them.

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    Comment #41684815

    Maybe the art carved by the modern desert racers is better anyways

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    Comment #41682721

    No chance they spend the most on leisure activities. Definitely it's baby boomers.

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    Comment #41666788

    People like to play these games and thus probably good for societies World would be pretty full without competitive games / sports

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    Comment #41666777

    Could they ever operate without the gambling?

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    Comment #41516007

    If you're laser focused on a end product then learning can happen remarkably quickly.

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    Comment #41515931

    Useful in society says a lot?

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    Comment #41513942

    Your entire comment basically talks about how a Yale degree means you probably better tho?

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    Comment #41513840

    If you're truly underpaid for your experience and location then you should be able to get a new higher paying job easily. And if you can't easily get one well maybe you aren't unde…

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    Comment #41413617

    almost all of them?

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    Comment #41349867

    All quants know pandas. beyond that their technical skills are often quite limited. It makes sense to invest resources into something everyone knows how to use, even if it's subopt…

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    Comment #41286399

    Yeah and Finish devs also make a small fraction of what's possible in America

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    Comment #41206957

    In my experience, it's just not that good? I programmed professionally in Lisp (Racket to be specific) for a couple years and while I was initially enthusiastic about it, my enthus…

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    Comment #41178368

    You can send everyone not on a list to spam and auto respond with a link to pay you $10 to get on the white list should be doable