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Snipers essentially convert the ascending-bid proxy auction used in eBay into a Vickrey second-price sealed bid auction, allowing a buyer to not reveal their preferences to other p…

It's worth checking if room temperature is measured at the thermostat or at the return. It's a common issue with ducted Mitsubishi systems. Also, a thermostat should be away from t…

Inverter heat pumps shouldn't be controlled by dumb "smart" thermostats like Nest. They send only on-off signals, while a compatible communicating thermostat sends a numerical setp…

I had this issue, too. It helped to replace the AA headunit module in AIO with a binary having this fix https://github.com/gartnera/headunit/pull/174 . Since then, AA works great f…

High turnover, high costs. You flip your position too often

This paper is a hilarious dump of WQ's randomly generated formulas that (hopefully) happen to pass in-sample test. Alpha#33: rank((-1 * ((1 - (open / close))^1))) This formula triv…