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by DaniFong 15y ago
I did acknowledge that this problem is a problem by degrees for most groups (with perhaps the exception of Stanford students.) But I think women, in part because of a certain stereotype of what womanhood or motherhood should be (I think the
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by DaniFong 15y ago
It was more direct -- it was targeted specifically to me by a friend. But I also was greatly encouraged by Paul Graham's essays and Founders at Work. I had only a few role models of people doing good science outside of academia (Craig Vente
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There are many women, myself included, who have directly benefited from the message that I could (if not, should ) do a startup. I was previously on an academic treadmill. It was more or less assumed that if you were capable, you wanted to
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by DaniFong 15y ago
I'm sorry but I don't see how this addresses my point? If they are checking 20 bands for results with p < 0.05, the likelihood is that one will show up, just from fluctuations from background.
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I know physicists/programmers who are not only 10x faster in getting anything done, but can do in a day what most programmers never achieve in a career. You'd better believe there are massive differences in productivity -- or your business
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Sure, it's 3.5 sigma in this particular energy band, but is it 3.5 sigma in every energy band? It might be like expressing amazement that someone in the world won the lottery. There's a difference between someone in particular winning the l
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by DaniFong 15y ago
The biggest problems the government should be solving with energy are fixing the messed up regulation of the electric grid, and reducing subsidies for energy/oil. Currently, utilities have zero incentive to take any risks, and zero incentiv
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I am so frustrated with these government programs that supply hyperactive, startups (Solyndra! Argh!) with too much funding, then crash and sully the reputation of entire fields with their profligate spending and successive failures. The sc
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by DaniFong 15y ago
The author is himself imputing an absolutist interpretation of statistical significance. Statistical significance always has a p value (and an assumed distribution!) associated with it. The permutation of statistical significances of insign
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by DaniFong 15y ago
Haha, you make a good point. Nonetheless, flying could be an amazing experience. But fliers are some of the least happy people because they are treated either like criminas, children, or cattle. If the time isn't quite stolen, it is at leas
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by DaniFong 15y ago
Out of genuine curiosity, why is it ridiculous? Stolen time is stolen time, no?
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In another, more macabre calculus: 1.6 billion hours per year = 182648 person years per year Divided by forty (perhaps the average number of years of life expectancy remaining for fliers) = 4566 remaining lifetimes stolen = equivalent of 45
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by DaniFong 15y ago
Have discussed a bit with the author. It seems there is still some question but someone who knows fish would have to weigh in: Not an expert by any means, but I recall a talk by Laura Cunningham on historical California ecology that spoke o
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by DaniFong 15y ago
I heard from Laura Cunningham's talk on 10,000 years of California ecology that there were once Tuna in San Francisco Bay. If so perhaps these fish could be caught on land? http://longnow.org/seminars/02011/oct/17/ten-millennia-calif...
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It will be interesting to see how they hold up over time. 40,000 cycles at 17 C is only 98 days. Lithium-ion batteries are also rather cycle insensitive, but die in about two years.
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by DaniFong 15y ago
Another hero of mine has passed, but much of her, just as she taught us, remains. But death means never getting a chance to have a conversation with her. I am so sad to see her go.
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I am totally confused by your misunderstanding. It is possible there are intrinsic differences, and anyone insisting that this has been shown through appeals to science is being insufficiently rigorous, and scientifically irresponsible. Whe
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It is evidence against such an explanation, but it's very weak evidence. It shows other factors are involved, which no one disputes, but it does not rule out genetics as a factor. The core of my argument is that other factors have been sh
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by DaniFong 15y ago
It could be that mathematical ability is genetic and normally distributed, but some component of women's underrepresentation is caused by factors other than this (e.g., discrimination, personal preferences). I mean this to be evidence aga
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tl;dr, people often claim that greater variance in mathematical ability accounts for lower numbers of women in high level scientific positions. this is doesn't match the data: one can't mathematically fit a gaussian curve to explain the dis
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by DaniFong 15y ago
Mathematical achievement doesn't fit a gaussian, and neither do the gendered groups of your conception. And if mathematical ability were distributed as a Gaussian, and genetic, women couldn't be ascending so rapidly. See for example Lisa Sa
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by DaniFong 15y ago
This is absolutely a breakthrough in implant technology: of course, now the question is, how long will they last in-vivo? Five years? Fuel cells can have a foreshortened lifespan. Also, an idea: perhaps such a battery could also be used for
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by DaniFong 15y ago
Not so, The helium will be denser, but it has a molecular weight of 4 as opposed to ~29. Suppose it is 20% cooler -- thus occupying 20% less of the volume at equal pressure, thus being 1.25 as dense. Lift will be proportional to 29 * 1.25 -
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How to build a cleantech success (by the numbers with Matthew Nordan)(finance.fortune.cnn.com)
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Thank you, this is really helpful. I am afraid, though, that I can't imagine how our company can work effectively without at least some people in the physical lab at the same time. I will meditate on this. In the meantime, I will think abou
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Most successful YC companies, for instance, cannot simply shut down for the entire month of August. In others, teams are so tightly coupled that the business wants vacations as synchronized as possible. It all depends. We're certainly i
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Question: have you experienced both models, or are you just guessing? This isn't meant to condescend -- I'm just truly curious. The trouble is twofold -- two or three weeks of paid time off, while standard, isn't enough for people to have s
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We are exploring an alternate mode of vacation (one might say, the French model, although not because it is not national) -- in which the company essentially shuts down august till labor day, on top of a couple weeks of ordinary flexible pa
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by DaniFong 15y ago
High drama in the forests! It's not just this fungal battle -- my friend, the fire ecologist, explains how fire has existed pretty much since plant life, and therefore plants evolve strategies for handling fire. Some trees, like pines, make
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by DaniFong 15y ago
Thomas, this is really an excellent page (and a sharp design). Describing up front what the process is definitely respectful of the candidates time! We've found some success by trying to make the problems really interesting; perhaps some pe

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