If you put a trade on, the following can happen.
There are two sources of variance in your outcomes:
1. am I right or wrong?
2. am I lucky? (did random unforecastable events help or hinder my position)
For small numbers of trades, 2 totally dominates.
Over 200k requests for World Cup scores at https://t.co/QY3oaa5o5q over the past month, less than a GB of data transferred.
Some websites [read: Twitter] might be a dumpster fire right now, but I hope @PlainTextSports stands apart as a reliable utility for everyone!
Sick of waiting for ESPN to load on your phone? I made a site that shows live NBA games, boxscores and play-by-play in plain text and loads instantly. No frills, and no waiting, just plain text sports: https://t.co/z9OVTG0rXs
Hot take: You almost certainly don't need:
* Kubernetes
* gRPC
* Whatever the hell a service mesh is
* BigTable/Spanner/other pricy dbs
* Serverless
Having access to these things is great, but y'all forgot that 99% of webshit can be done with a handful of servers and a SQL db.
LFG! i've applied for early access to Alchemy University (@AlchemyLearn) - the ultimate web3 learning hub, and it's free! Apply now to join me!
https://t.co/HQXZpus0VZ
Today I'm launching my Beginner JavaScript text guide!
These notes are totally free and have been modeled after the content in my Beginner JavaScript course.
This is a huge resource I've been working on for over a year and I'm so excied to share it!
https://t.co/PBlhpjIKlE
Two days ago the NYT posted an investigation into politicians trading stocks
They found that 81 Democrats & 101 Republicans filed up to 3,700 trades and $100M in possible volume
Many had 100% winners, with some perfectly timed
Here’s examples of just how good they were
I get asked a lot about what does it take to land a job at DeepMind or any other world-class AI industry lab.
For those of you that are unaware of it I wrote a detailed blog on that topic and shared my personal journey here: https://t.co/f5PwyYrHI2
If I could summarize..
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Learning with Combinatorial Optimization Layers: a Probabilistic Approach
https://t.co/yr0j6vXZWH
Combinatorial optimization (CO) layers are a powerful tool to tackle data-driven decision tasks. The lack of...
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