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by DanielN 16y ago
This is a really good point. They talk about this in "A Beautiful Mind". It was a big divider between places like Harvard and Princeton, and places like MIT and Carnegie Mellon. The latter would take in Jews and other immigrant population
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by DanielN 16y ago
It's worth noting that MIT didn't really become an academically prestigious institution until the 1940-50's. Before the second world war it was largely a Engineering and technical college and certainly wasn't one of the top 10 institutions
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by DanielN 16y ago
This is some of the best and most simplistic advertising and pr I've seen in a while. I've heard of mix panel probably 50 times but this was the first time I clicked through your website to see what you guys are all about. Nice product by
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by DanielN 16y ago
I'm not sure I understand the impetus for articles like this. It's the same as the articles arguing why Taiwan's education system is better than the US' or arguing that Canada's healthcare system is better. Certainly it is valuable and imp
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by DanielN 16y ago
I agree with a lot of the sentiment here that the presentation is a little overly drawn out and meandering, but the end point in spot on. I recently took the advice to contact entrepreneurs I was interested in working with on the advice of
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by DanielN 16y ago
uh, its a great movie, but I don't remember it being very feel good. I mostly remember it being depressing. That scene toward the end where one of the kids is playing ball with his father is heartbreaking.
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by DanielN 16y ago
I don't know. Isn't this a subsystem that hides the flaws. Writing the article exposes some flaws but even then, most professors who read this aren't going to be able to pick out of a line up which of their students have used such services
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by DanielN 16y ago
"Maybe you can't appreciate this now, but the summer of 2003 was the biggest turning point that independent music has ever had." This has always struck me as interesting point from a music fan's perspective. It seems like the confluence of
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Was the Wheel of Fortune One Letter Solve Really a Miracle?(esquire.com)
154 points by DanielN 16y ago|69 comments
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by DanielN 16y ago
ah. ok. That totally make since. I guess my concern in holding up HK or Singapore as shining examples of economic freedom and efficiency are that both of them come with pretty terrible cases of second class citizenry as a direct byproduct o
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by DanielN 16y ago
Comments like this are what make a binary voting system inefficient. Two thirds of your comment is spot on and pretty much exactly what I came here to say. When I initially viewed your comment it had been down voted and I debated whether o
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by DanielN 16y ago
I guess this is the aspect I don't understand. With a lifetime of twenty years, most software patents (a lot of hardware patents for that matter) cover the entire viable commercial lifetime of the product. In our brief experience of commerc
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by DanielN 16y ago
Honestly, the main reason for the action that has taken place over the past 5 years or so is due primarily to the authors of this list. More specifically, it is due to their getting into positions where they have unusually wide breadths of
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by DanielN 16y ago
There was an article in the economist a few years ago about the dominant professions of government leaders for various countries. I couldn't find it, but the basic gist was it is more a reflection of the most accessible prestige positions i
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by DanielN 16y ago
It's standard form for writing news headlines, by-lines.
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by DanielN 16y ago
If I'm understanding your question correctly, (applications of machine learning) there are plenty of examples of this. See google search suggestions, facebook's news stream, google ad suggestions, last.fm and pandora's music suggestions, et
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by DanielN 16y ago
The issue of getting good teachers in the classroom and re-organizing curriculum around creativity and "non-test-centric" priorities are very much one in the same. See http://blog.mrmeyer.com/ or http://coxmath.blogspot.com/ for examp
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by DanielN 16y ago
I agree. Planet Money is a great example of what financial news should be. And it is a completely replicable phenomena. Its strength largely comes from a few personalities who are engaging, intelligent and intellectually curious and askin
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by DanielN 16y ago
this is basically my point. The things you look for in great programmers are not the same things you look for in finding great people to spend a weekend with. In order to make this a truly great experience they should put some time into f
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by DanielN 16y ago
cool idea, but sending you resume (or some facsimile of it) to find a place to crash is a little strange.
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by DanielN 16y ago
ah, put it like that and I would probably agree with you. The way you phrased the issue the first time I was under the impression you were suggesting that fenty's opponent might be anti-Rhee. I was confused by this because I was under the
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by DanielN 16y ago
Could you explain how action from the private sector might help to reform the public education system. Unless you're referring to vouchers I'm not sure I understand the connection you're trying to make. Also, I'm not sure its accurate to c
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by DanielN 16y ago
the really disappointing thing about ping is that unlike last.fm, apple has access to the binary file for itunes and so could provide even more info about your listening habits. I assume last.fm's scrobbler works entirely from the unencrypt
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by DanielN 16y ago
I would think that Apple would employ a lot more computer engineers and people on the hardware side and that these would be the tech employees at apple with highest salaries, but I might be completely off base. Anyone have any ideas if this
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by DanielN 16y ago
don't give up on journalism, it's only dead to those who aren't great writers, and this guy is a great writer.
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no direct sources off the top of my head but http://fora.tv/2009/07/05/Transforming_the_System_An_Intervi... is a good start
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well for what its worth, a lot of studies suggest that you actually get better teachers if you exchange these "fringe benefits" for higher salaries.
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by DanielN 16y ago
Looking for answers in such macro terms is probably not an effective response to the problems posed in the article. What would likely be more effective would be data on changes in teacher salaries over time, changes in administrator salary
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by DanielN 16y ago
I've tried this in Boston. Mass-holes will not stand for you to screw with their traffic jams.
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Pitchfork Media and the Power of Slow Growth(wired.com)
1 points by DanielN 16y ago|0 comments

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