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> A dentist gets to try on fake tooth before drilling a real tooth.

Are you saying you went straight to writing production code before you ever studied any software engineering? Sounds unusual for practitioners of an industry endowed with such a critical responsibility.

A dentist can easily kill someone through malpractice... There's no code review, there's no test environment, and there are always difficult (often time-sensitive) decisions to make and difficult people to deal with.

If all you know is estimating story points and merging pull requests to make your burn-down chart look pretty you probably shouldn't be so confident that your profession is more difficult or more superior than one that you have no understanding of.

Re:Predicting Price Changes in Ethereum (2017) [pdf] on Saturday June 09, 2018 @10:51AM (#17273298)
Yes, there is a difference in circumstance. Ironically though, their best performing model assumes constant volatility...
Re:Predicting Price Changes in Ethereum (2017) [pdf] on Saturday June 09, 2018 @10:05AM (#17273066)
Applying decades old statistical techniques to predict trends in time series data. Now with added blockchain, as is tradition.
He’s created a hash function and hash functions have applications apparently.

It’s publishable because you can link it to blockchain somewhere in the article.