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I would really love to use Julia, and for my team to as well. But we are too locked into R to even begin. If I were these folks, I would focus on the flow, not stock, of data analy…

Hello, author here. I found this the analogy between voting and machine learning to be an interesting one, as voting is essentially a classification task. Popular votes are bagging…

I always hate these comparisons because they always compare market capitalization and not enterprise value. On the latter metric, which is independent of how a company is financed,…

I'm not even a software engineer. Lowly MBA that writes R code. even I understood the gist. But the part that I understood well is that _this was a HackerOne managed program_, mean…

Seems like a classic case of market unraveling: http://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2009/06/unraveling.html

This article really, _really_ needs to cite Getting to Yes, or at least their authors, William Ury and Robert Fisher, who developed these ideas, and even this terminology.

This logic falls into a cul de sac when you realize that many open problems can only be solved by new technology.

Like when an individual drives to a store to get groceries?

+1, I still can't access it.

My guess (and this is just a guess, as I too can't read the article), is that the investment was a convertible note, and they actually paid back the debt instead of allowing it to …

FWIW I still hit the paywall when I click on that link (and the other one referenced as bypassing the paywall)

Came here to agree with you. Tons of great wings spots here. Also, The Infatuation is great for NYC restaurant reviews.

it doesn't make internal investment impossible. it just changes the pockets it comes out of. well, actually it doesn't even do that, because either way it would be coming out of th…

yes, in the sense that everything that's on the cap table (including special dividends, etc.) won't affect the P&L, except for the interest payments. but investors in the company t…

> if PE didn't burden them by taking out loans against the company's assets if this were the true problem, i.e. if there were a profitable business that just wasn't making enough i…