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tigertheory

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    Comment #46890872

    I like Paul Graham a lot but this is simply not true. Look at the most successful people of recent times and you will quickly see a consistent pattern of meanness when you dig into…

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    Comment #23474424

    Let’s say the person chooses those numbers randomly and in the same way they are drawn (e.g. no replacement so number 1 can only be chosen once for the white balls). The black ball…

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    Comment #23474361

    That means that if those numbers are drawn randomly from the containers, I’m asking what is the probability that a person guesses those numbers right BEFORE they are drawn as happe…

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    Comment #23474308

    Let’s say W stands for white ball and B for black ball. Let’s say we draw and order the white balls from least to greatest. It will look like this: W1 W2 W3 W4 W5 B1 I’m asking wha…

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    Comment #23474228

    Let’s say that the first five white balls are pulled from the first container containing 70 balls and that the sixth ball is pulled from a second container containing 25 balls. Wha…

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    Lottery Odds Question

    In a lottery that let’s you choose numbers between 1-70 for the five “white” balls, and numbers between 1-25 for the sixth “mega” ball, if after being drawn the white balls are ord…

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    Can someone help me solve ODE y''=1/y^2?

    Been stuck on this for days, would love if someone could walk me through how to get the full analytical solution to this ODE? We can assume y(0) = L (some constant) and dy/dt(0) = …

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    Comment #12941527

    fantastic and super helpful reply, thank you for taking the time to write it!

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    Comment #12941438

    Fellow HBSer, thanks for your input super helpful!

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    Comment #12940539

    I think doing it on the side is less feasible because (1) work takes up too much time for me to make meaningful progress in say 6 months, it will be very slow progress (2) I find t…

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    Comment #12940171

    Thanks super helpful. Had a couple of followups: (1) Which boot camp did you attend if you don't mind me asking and in what city? (2) How you find the job interview process? (3) Wh…

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    Comment #12939439

    Product Manager

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    Comment #12939286

    Thanks for the responses guys. A few more points of clarification. PM means product manager. Top 3 tech think Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple. In terms of my motivation I think tod…

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    Ask HN: I will quit my job as a PM to join a coding bootcamp. Am I crazy?

    I have an MBA from a top 3 school and have a high-paying job as a PM at a top 3 tech company. But I don't feel like I am building tangible skills as a PM, it is more about project …

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