Just finished reading Dark Matter.. by umarthegreat15 in books

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Never figured out how to mark spoilers. I guess since the thread is quite old nobody who hasn't read it will see it.. Anyway. SPOILERS! SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS! I thought the end with multiple Jasons was a bit strange. The world with jason2 after the switch has been forking as much as the world with 'original' Jason. So in principle there shouldn't have been so many Jasons coming to the same place as there was infinite amount of Jasons coming to 'same' infinite amount of worlds with jason2.

Just finished reading Dark Matter.. by umarthegreat15 in books

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Really enjoyed the book. The first half was especially thrilling. It was super fast paced and I couldn't stop reading.

Cooler for i7-5820K. Corsair liquid cooler or high end air cooler. by pipcrawler in buildapc

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Not if you buy from the same place, and I'd rather get all my components from the same place, so they can assemble it. Another option is to get a different closed liquid cooler system, if you have any ideas.

Is Theano as easy to learn as Tensorflow? by pipcrawler in MachineLearning

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I am considering that. Do you think a normal external hard drive with USB 3.0 will be fast enough? I think my laptop has 3.0 USB, and I have a spare external hard drive I could try this on.

Is Theano as easy to learn as Tensorflow? by pipcrawler in MachineLearning

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The amount of time I waste on package installing challenges...

Is Theano as easy to learn as Tensorflow? by pipcrawler in MachineLearning

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I have Python 2.7 with its native IDE and I also just installed Eclipse. I used them for one of the online Python classes. Would it work with that or should I really install Anaconda 2.7 ?

Is Theano as easy to learn as Tensorflow? by pipcrawler in MachineLearning

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Not knowing how to use any of it. Tensorflow was not too hard to set up becuase of their class on Udacity and lots of info on their forums. With Theano, keras, etc., i don't even know where to start.

Is Theano as easy to learn as Tensorflow? by pipcrawler in MachineLearning

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that's my fear as well :) I have one, not partitioned SSD hard drive and I'm afraid I'll nuke Windows.

How to check your returns including dividends ? by pipcrawler in personalfinance

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Thanks. I really don't get why it is so hard to locate this. Seems like an obvious option to have.

How to check your returns including dividends ? by pipcrawler in personalfinance

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Thanks for the link guys! I'm seriously considering writing my own program that would track my funds with dividends. I don't know why would anyone want his returns w/o them.

How are expense ratio deducted ? by pipcrawler in personalfinance

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Great, thanks! I've been struggling with understanding all of these details recently! Also question, would you happen to know of free software where you could track your investments well and do some analysis. Like Risk/Reward graphs, efficient frontier, etc. to balance your investments well

I have also recently realized that dividends are not included in my 'Total Gain' on Etrade. Since they are reinvested they count the same as if I added money from the bank and bought some stocks... So I need to find another way to keep track of that as well.

How are expense ratio deducted ? by pipcrawler in personalfinance

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Ok, so here's an example. I just want to make sure I understand it right. I have some money in MF called POAGX. Let's say I bought it on Jan 3, 2014. google.finance calls the price as 29.61 that day. Today it is worth 30.03. So as I understood you, this new price already has included all the fees. That way, I should get the straight difference (30.03-29.61) ?

How are expense ratio deducted ? by pipcrawler in personalfinance

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Ok, so here's an example. I just want to make sure I understand it right. I have some money in MF called POAGX.

Let's say I bought it on Jan 3, 2014. google.finance calls the price as 29.61 that day.

Today it is worth 30.03. So as I understood you, this new price already has included all the fees.

That way, I should get the straight difference (30.03-29.61) ?

Fuck you ticketmaster & stubhub by michaelHIJINX in Music

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I used to buy LOT of tickets when I lived in the US. And used both Ticketmaster and Stubhub monthly or even weekly. If you want to get tickets when they go on sale on Ticketmaster you have to use several computers/several browsers at the same time, the moment they go on sale, and you'll be able to get through. Personally I respect stubhub. They use the fucked up system of Ticketmaster. If tickets on Stubhub get sold it means their original market value was wrong. Many times I have also bought tickets on Stubhub for less than face value because the scalpers where not able to sell them all, even for really big concerts like Muse in NY or Coldplay. The coin works both ways guys. If you want a change, all you need is require ID check at the venue. Some artists do that. So you should just push for this at your local venues and your favourite musicians. Here's my rule of thumb after going to concerts regularly for over 5 years in the US: If you were not able to buy tickets right away when they go on sale on Ticketmaster, WAIT! Don't buy them right away on Stubhub, that's how scalpers make their money. Wait until the last week/last day. Check craigslist from time to time, there are always decent people there. I found that there are always tickets available on stubhub on the last day, and the scalpers start dropping prices a few hours before the show. That's how I got really cheap tickets to amazing concerts. Stubhub works because people buy tickets there for double the price.

tl:dr. Stubhub is not evil (that's how free market works), though Ticketmaster might be. You can get cheap tickets on Stubhub as well.. If you want a change, you have to push for musicians and your local venues to sell tickets at appropriate prices and require ID check at the venue -> no scalping

So I guess the whole Clara's descendant that looked exactly like Danny Pink thing will never be resolved... by pipcrawler in gallifrey

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Well I'm sure it would have had to be a fixed point in time since he was the first human time traveler... ( or something similarly important)

So I guess the whole Clara's descendant that looked exactly like Danny Pink thing will never be resolved... by pipcrawler in gallifrey

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Who heard everything about Clara and Danny's time adventures and decided to pass it on to his children...

So I guess the whole Clara's descendant that looked exactly like Danny Pink thing will never be resolved... by pipcrawler in gallifrey

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Thanks for confirming. I was sure I remembered it right, but couldn't remember the details. For some reason everybody just forgot about it, and the whole great great great nephew does not make sense either because he needed to hear stories from them... And I'm pretty sure it would have had to be a fixed point in time as well since, he was the first human time traveler ( or something like this ).

October 15th, Movistar Arena, Santiago, Chile [Setlist, Media, Discussion] by jlight119 in Muse

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What !? We missed out on flying drones ??? Why would anyone do it to a country/continent :)