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Great news. Vaccination requirements are nothing new - I’ve had a WHO issued vaccination passport since the ‘70s.

What has Facebook got to do with time-series forecasting?? Prophet?? Real time series work means rolling your own tools and understanding exactly how they function ;-). In C preferably, while flogging yourself at the same time. Just kidding.. Sort of.

It’s been available in Europe for many years.

Not clear if one needs to buy >your< kit, or any kit.

A great idea, and useful not just for English speakers. My French background doesn’t make me any better at pronouncing Chinese names!

Yes, I understand that. The applications I’m thinking of are those that either have a longer shelf-life and/or are business applications. In Finance, for example, many important vendors have been rolling-out trading front-ends based on web frameworks (maybe Electron for all I know). They are absolutely terrible, again, because of the lack of standard UI usability rules. Combine that with very poor documentation, and non-existent training and it’s a disaster.

True, the user doesn’t necessarily know a ‘native’ UI from a familiar/consistent UI. The two major OS’s used to be the promoters of well thought-out standards and consistency. The two went hand-in-hand.

The webification of Desktop app GUI’s is the result of a total disregard for usability .. from a user’s point-of-view (not a developer’s point-of-view of what users >should< want). Most young devs I speak to stare blankly at me when I enquire about GUI standards and usability best-practices. They are now foreign concepts to a lot of developers.

As a user, I don’t care about the dev’s challenge of supporting multiple OS’s. These best experience comes when I load up a new application and can intuitively navigate it without the mental overload required trying to decipher a GUI layout which doesn’t adhere to any standard.

Web frameworks are great, but have their limitations.

The blame is not so much with the new generations of devs, but with the likes of Microsoft and Apple who have ditched standards and are encouraging the Desktop to turn into the wild-west. Or something like that.

Unless you’re only looking to make pocket change, making serious money with a hobby presumes you’re employer does not have rights over your IP.

This is great. I can see myself building this for work - quicker and more satisfying than buying an over-priced set-up.

In this day and age, ignoring the deeper layers of truth which are available to you as a writer is disingenuous. It is a choice.

His sound-track to “Lift to the Gallows”, a French movie, is my favourite. https://youtu.be/PW-SxgZViuk https://youtu.be/VjHCyl6X2q8

That’s quite a cheat sheet. Thank you.

Not again. Econophysics tried hard 15/20 years ago but really made no substantial contribution to our understanding of markets.

Better learn to walk before attempting to run. Too many HF’s are stated based on half-baked ideas/models. Better to partner with an existing HF and get the data insight, but maintain your independence an chart your own course.

Nicely done. One can study equations all day long and not get the kind of insight a good interactive visualization provides in just a few minutes.

Another disaster waiting to happen. Time to cap the Amazon’s and Googles at the knees.

Very nicely done. What would be cool is the ability to switch from the terrain view to one showing height contours. Is overland runoff path hydrologically correct or are you essentially following stream flow. In any case, this would be a great exhibit in a first hydrology class.

Beautiful style. Just like their coinage.

Simple is good. I like it.

Yes, I can definitely relate to this. English is not my native tongue. I’m acutely aware of the presence of other non-native speakers in the room and instinctively switch to simple terms and avoid the use of colloquialisms. Native speakers generally do not have that instinct.

Taleb could be so much more effective if he dialed down his ego by a notch or two. He is lecturing to an audience that lives in his imagination.

True, and then people complain about their insurance premiums!

Potferdoume! So much interest in Belgium! 216 comments and counting..

Having said that.. In an attempt to get me to learn Flemish, my parents placed me in a Flemish-speaking school. Most Flemish kids spoke decent French. The other way isn’t so true. Too many French-speaking Belgians don’t bother to learn Flemish.

Same in parts of Italy - its a very common tax dodge

Great resource. Thanks for sharing.

Spent a lot of time with that dataset a couple of years ago, looking at historical flight delays and cancellation rates. If only this type of data was available outside of the US. The data is updated daily I believe and provides a lot of detail and is of pretty good quality.

First world problem... what makes me chuckle is the need for someone to start a dev rant site. Sigh.

The economy as a complex system is appealing. The idea looked very promising in the early 1990’s when I was a grad student. Unfortunately, it has not led to any meaningful (i.e. practical/usable) results. Just this month came across an attempt to model insurance markets using an agent-based model. The paper was co-authored by an eminent proponent of complexity theory etc. Unfortunately, the authors trip all over themselves when trying to actually calibrate or relate their model to real-world conditions.

Complexity theory is a useful thinking tool, but has yet to bear fruit when it comes to making statements about future system behavior.

Likewise, econophysics was a thing fifteen years ago, but now only survives in academia.

Exactly - just enjoy it.