DividesByZero

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by DividesByZero 14y ago
Very fair. I guess more maths isn't always better after all.
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
That's true, but I'm sure it would have helped while the author was trying to balance the game out to better understand the sources of particular imbalances, rather than having to guess-and-iterate on them.
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
Unless the script simulated dice orientation, I don't think it would help any there. Having read the rules of the game I think there's still a pretty good closed-form solution, minus the dice orientation stuff, that wouldn't take a lot of w
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
I can forgive that - I often accidentally say 'rails' when I mean ruby as well.
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
I think this is a really neat side project. It's almost like a chatbot where you drive. If you can get sentence structure working by doing intelligent stuff with the tokens it could be even cooler. What do you do fulltime?
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
"I spent a few hours hacking together a little rails app which would play out 100,000 rolls in a few seconds and tell me the chances of everything coming up. " Why did the author write a rails app to run statistical experiments on what are
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
Is this intended to produce 'sounds like' gibberish or structured sentences? Just curious at the end goal.
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
In what sense? No true scot would be excluding these examples from consideration based on unrelated information. If anything, I'm skirting whether or not the lean startup model is actually falsifiable (it is).
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
This is merely a reflection of the amount of resources required to build a valid MVP of a product like an electric car, revitalising an urban space or building a space launch vehicle.
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
Touch screen interfaces on smartphones existed long before the iPhone.
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
Apple is smart in that they let everyone else do the iterating for them, then extract the parts that work best with a laser beam focus. Apple have no original, 'top down' ideas.
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
There is no such thing as an entrepreneur with a top down idea. You can be an ideas guy, but you can't be an entrepreneur without taking what you have to customers and iterating on it until it's right. Please give an example of a game chang
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
The biggest hole in the presentation is the casual dismissal of deflation as an economic risk for a currency. Advancing demurrage as a solution is sheer madness.
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
'On average' is a meaningless assertion in a country where the gap between rich and poor is so large. (GINI 0.38 after-tax in 2010).
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
No, let's not go back to that, it's a bad idea an systematises socio-economic, behavioural and other problems. In my research of educational systems while building Geddit, I've found that American education, and the systems of many other co
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
It's not like you can stop it happening either.
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
In the example video both knives seem like they do pretty much exactly the same thing?
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
Let's look at this from a game theory point of view. A self-imposed cap is a signal to potential contributors that you don't intend for this particular project to exceed some specific aim. Sending this signal lets contributors differentiate
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
Wow, what a transparent strawman. Every 'how to do a startup' guide stresses that getting your product in front of users is the key priority of every new company. Nothing I've ever read has ever advocated getting an NDA or figuring out pric
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
Strong argument for a 'maximum' cap on kickstarter funding.
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
It might be a small niggle, but the author is pretty dismissive of microeconomic theories of risk. Despite what the author writes - "Of course statistically there’s no difference, so this isn’t a question of math or economics or intelligenc
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
" All start-ups today are about supporting advertising in one way or another." Ouch. It must suck to be in an ecosystem where that's true.
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
A large percentage of the poor are overweight or obese because of the low nutritional value of cheap, readymade food.
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
Wow, the comments on that forum are certainly an interesting insight into the weird sort of paranoia/megalomania that leads people to become Bitcoin zealots - "Satoshi definitely saw this as a strike against the malignant forces that nation
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Ask HN: Explosive growth or bootstrapped? Out of my depth.
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
"Figure out a way to 1) reliably detect the optimum education environment for each student, and 2) give it to them." This fits quite well into the "if you can measure it, you can change it" paradigm. Shameless self-promotion: My startup, Ge
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
I did this for three months with Geddit, but mostly on creating the MVP with my cofounder rather than sales. Unlike mindcrime, my employer did not know what else I was working on, and I did no work on my startup during 9-5 business hours. I
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
HN comes up in discussion among startup types here in Berlin a lot - it's definitely having an impact with more reach than individual YC investments, but what that impact is seems like it would be impossible to quantify. I know that I becam
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
Someone like Google or Microsoft can just pay to settle. No such 'tragedy' is possible.
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
Medium sized companies in niche industries often don't have a web presence and desire one. These companies often have existing branding or an in-house marketing team that would work with you to design their web-app. That said, having some d

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