Everyone knows it, no matter how gifted you are chances of your discovering something important is same as any random guy discovering something equally important, i.e., mostly random.
You limit access to the data, you limit ability of others to make an important discovery. Status quo won't offer free access to this data because it apparently reduces their importance.
I've hired plenty of technically rockstar employees for cash strapped startups.
Those who get kick out of these technical challenges are willing to do it for nearly free - we only gotta make sure, their other needs are taken care of.
Well, if you are required to prepare your own tax returns through an accountant then he will most certainly, itemize deduction, you'll be asking him to get your tax bill down a bit. Power of incentive is nothing to be questioned.
Computation cost of calculating the Cholesky factorization of the original second derivative matrix is comparable to cost of calculating the inverse factorization.
I've not read it! But experienced folks will be hired more often than inexperienced ones. And lots of old programmer use vim/emacs and other CLI editors. So, it's not surprisingly. Do they've data adjusted for programming experience?
Investing in index is like subscribing for slavery. It only benefits people with tons of money. Sure, it's less risky. But along with preventing massive downside, it prevents massive upside too. I've just got 1 life, limited time and I want to risk everything for a massive upside, not efficient market.
It's funny to see that they are not even able to implement an Ebook reader mode. Crowd sourced data to selectively enable/disable JavaScript for invasive/resource hungry websites will save a lot of battery too!
