defo_nonconvex

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Comment · 8 years ago
Possible on Android and without root?
Comment · 8 years ago
Who's the best?
Comment · 8 years ago
I tried to get through this, but after one or two chapters it seemed really dry, and somewhat outdated for current markets. I've read dry material on financial markets before, but jeez. Did you actually learn much from it? If anyone wants to post a tl;dr summary, it would be appreciated.
Comment · 8 years ago
BASF, Thyssen (without the Krupp at that time...) plenty of blame to go around...
Comment · 8 years ago
So they're finally switching from Google STT to Mozilla Deepspeech, but that project includes no pre-learned models IIRC. So where is MyCroft getting its data from? Or is Mozilla releasing models in 2018?
Comment · 8 years ago
There are quite a few countries with much lower rates of religious affiliation than the US, and decent societal values. NZ, Aus, Nordics, Swiss, Germany etc. And even if they have non-trivial rates of religious belief, its not the kind of fundamentalist and extractive religion that grips the US. If anything, the decoupling of religion from official institutions in the US has given it free reign to accumulate ever more soft power and wealth.

Those countries usually have "stronger" Governments too, with stronger social safety nets, and healthcare systems that don't try to shaft you for $40k when giving birth.

More to the point, someone should visualise the relationship between rates of religiosity and quality of public transportation, across a range of geographic areas. I can imagine the general trend, though there may be some outliers like Poland and Italy.

Content aside, this text sounds like a street-preacher in Battlestar Galactica or The Expanse.

Comment · 8 years ago
If you were searching for ice-cream with real vanilla, then its possibly understandable. A cyclone clobbered the Madagascan crop in 2017, multiplying the price. Some gelaterias in London didn't even run vanilla this winter as a result.
Comment · 8 years ago
I went into a Decathlon for the first time the other day, after long assuming Amazon would always be cheaper for outdoor+active wear...so wrong. Totally surprised at a high street store having a huge range of better quality merchandise, at lower prices, and no need to shop around amongst all the clones with very similar appearance, but varying quality. My faith in the bricks-and-mortar stores has been partially restored.

And for safety-critical purchases...no way am I risking buying something like angle grinder discs or fire extinguishers off Amazon. Fake headphones mean a bit of distortion, fake discs might mean a lost eye.

So now its just low-cost, low-risk purchases where I don't care too much if the item is junk.

On that note, where do people buy electronic hardware if not Amazon/PC World? E.g. for SD cards - Amazon carries the risk of counterfeits, and PC World carries the high street premium.

Comment · 8 years ago
Thank Orrin Hatch.
Comment · 8 years ago
Are twins inherently more efficient per pax than quads? Wouldn't a quad plane just run at a lower thrust level per engine? Given that fan sizes and core temperatures are rammed up against difficult limits, I would've thought that quads could give a better bypass ratio (and hence efficiency) by reducing the core engine size and thrust requirement.

Or do you mean operational efficiency...fewer parts to maintain, engineers, simpler plumbing etc? Probably less disturbance on the wing flow with 2 engines as well.

Comment · 8 years ago
Mmm I don't know, I've met some educated and/or wealthy 1st and 2nd gen Indian immigrants who get pretty hoity-toity about being a brahmin.
Comment · 8 years ago
Sounds like something LeCun would say..."I actually invented time as a special case of a deep network back in 19xx...."
Comment · 9 years ago
Tiny country by land mass maybe, but you know the Dutch East India Company's peak market cap was (inflation-adjusted) 8x10^12 USD, right? If you don't understand the economic impact of early resource abundance, on the ability to construct education systems, universities, professional organizations, infrastructure, and industry, and the 'pool of available talent', then pick up a strategy game.

Otherwise just Rand-ian codswallop.

Comment · 9 years ago
Given a market in a steady state, as long as your (return+premium) rate is higher than your expected payout, you're still ok. So your premium-expected_payout could be negative and you could hopefully still keep the lights on, no?

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