DaniFong

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1891.
by DaniFong 19y ago
With enough Gaussians, we can say anything!
1892.
by DaniFong 19y ago
Neither China, nor Japan, nor South Korea, nor Singapore were colonized by any western power. (Singapore, or for that matter, Hong Kong do not count, since they were tiny fishing villages before the British moved in.) Furthermore, the colon
1893.
by DaniFong 19y ago
"Not exactly..." Depending on the amount of gene expression you actually need, you might get an absolutely higher percentage of females at the highest level of ability, or vice versa. It is model dependent. That was my point. "...Indian che
1894.
by DaniFong 19y ago
rms, Yes, I agree with you there. It's just there are constantly pronouncements that something or another has been found, and the true story always seems to be that it makes no real difference. Certainly there must be a genetic basis, I jus
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by DaniFong 19y ago
"Brain size does not predict general cognitive ability within families" http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/97/9/4932 You can't discount that IOI statistic becuase it's an outlier. Every single participant at the IOI is an outlier in
1896.
by DaniFong 19y ago
The thing is that intelligence isn't some kind of nice, statistically normed quantity. There's more to most variables than a mean and a standard deviation -- so I don't know why people seem to always think that you can restrict a discussion
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by DaniFong 19y ago
Pretty well. I graduated in Computer Science and Physics with a first class honors degree, and the university medal (I was the top student), at 17. I then went into Princeton to start a PhD in plasma physics -- I did that for two years but
1898.
by DaniFong 19y ago
Well, we weren't talking about EE professors. But, if we were, we're talking about the top 1% of quantitative ability, in which case there's barely any statistical validity in what is written there at all. Here's a good piece of data. The C
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by DaniFong 19y ago
I used to tutor junior high and high school kids in physics. In junior high, nearly all the top students were girls. For some reason, in high school, there was this huge switch -- suddenly, most of the girls weren't interested in physics or
1900.
by DaniFong 19y ago
The article is bullshit. I didn't read anything after the quote "On all standardized exams, including IQ tests, men score higher than women on mathematical reasoning sections." That's simply not true. Women are known to score higher (and ha
1901.
by DaniFong 19y ago
I don't know if fortune decided to smile upon me or what, but since I posted this the three people I've been trying to get to join me all spontaneously decided to do it. Thanks for the encouragement =)
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by DaniFong 19y ago
I really wish they provided a translation or something. These popular math articles are rarely any good :-/
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by DaniFong 19y ago
Woz did the Cream Soda Computer, and the Apple I and II on his own (though he had Job's support after Apple I). Bill did BASIC for the Altair on his own, and Yahoo was just David's list, to start. There's a distinction between the seed stag
1904.
by DaniFong 19y ago
That would be my choice as well. It's just really fairly to get someone to join in a cofounder capacity, because the people I know well are all on the east coast or Canada, and I have a lot of pull them away from. I've had a lot of people w
1905.
by DaniFong 19y ago
I don't understand what all these people are talking about. A good idea is extremely valuable. A bad idea is a vicious liability. The problem is the marketplace. Most people aren't very good at telling if an idea is good or not. They're lik
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Ask YC: Founders and Paradoxes (Paradoxen?)
2 points by DaniFong 19y ago|7 comments
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Grades and stock options.
1 points by DaniFong 19y ago|0 comments
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by DaniFong 19y ago
For a graphically based programming concept that webpage is curiously wanting of graphical examples... Ideally I'd like something that one could insert into an existing language, so that it would gain usage quickly. (I'm betraying certain i
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by DaniFong 19y ago
Thanks for your comments! To continue the discussion: 1. A[i] and Ai (that should be subscript) seem pretty similar to me, but I like Ai more, it just seems cleaner. In C# we can write A[i,j,k] for multidimensional indexers, but tensor scri
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by DaniFong 19y ago
I started on computers since before my earliest memory -- my parents got me SimCity and I played it every chance that I could. My inner hacker spawned in stages, though, I'm not sure there was a specific event. There were more general thing
1911.
by DaniFong 19y ago
cowmoo, The vast majority of startups fail. An important corollary: The vast majority of social networking startups will fail. Social networking has, predictably, massive network effects. There's only going to be room for maybe a dozen maj
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Favorite Language/Editor Features
5 points by DaniFong 19y ago|8 comments
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by DaniFong 19y ago
19 + 2 Years PhD. I'm weird that way.