helmett's comments

helmett | 8 years ago | on: Clicking on a Facebook Scam to See What Would Happen

if one knew how much money these people make doing this stuff, one would be tempted to do it too. Folks made millions doing this because Facebook is slow to ban the domains

helmett | 9 years ago | on: Trump is turning Elon Musk into a crony capitalist

wasn't musk already to some extent a crony capitalist

helmett | 9 years ago | on: Millennium Tower is tilting, sinking

I'm sure the engineers ran the calculations and deemed it 'safe enough'

helmett | 9 years ago | on: Millennium Tower is tilting, sinking

...2 inches for such a tall building is such tiny angle

If it sinks does this mean the first floor is slightly below the street level ..it probably means that the areas around the door and where the concete meets the street are cracked

helmett | 9 years ago | on: Tesla confirms “Autopilot” crash in Montana

TIL: car crashes happen. but because it's Tesla it gets 100x the attention

helmett | 10 years ago | on: Keep your identity small (2009)

keep your identity to yourself ..until you're rich enough to be shielded from the consequences

helmett | 10 years ago | on: List your accomplishments

yeah..#1 on list: inherit dad's real estate empire

helmett | 10 years ago | on: Beyond the Bell Curve, a New Universal Law (2014)

As someone who has studied statistics in college, there is little original or novel about these finding. Any distribution can be reversed-engineered to find its characteristic function.

helmett | 10 years ago | on: USA tops International Math Olympiad for first time in 21 years

congratulation...I see a hedge fund career for many

helmett | 10 years ago | on: Now Worth $10B, Is WeWork a 2000 Redux?

marc andreeesen says no

helmett | 10 years ago | on: Echochamber.js

Oh, then I would be somewhat suspicious only seeing a single comment, especially if the site is popular and there should be more comments.

helmett | 10 years ago | on: Echochamber.js

So if you posted would you see other people's comments or only your own? Can someone setup a demo of this so we can test it out? seems intriguing

helmett | 10 years ago | on: Deriving the Reddit Formula

The biggest problem is that reddit's voting system is still pretty easy to game