HenryTheHorse

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by HenryTheHorse 8y ago
That's a really good point. Discovering patterns and correlations is an actuary's only competency.
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by HenryTheHorse 8y ago
> I'd rather see more content there than create their own new line of content. Their content strategy (and Amazon's) seems to be evolving toward developing their own content library, much like HBO. In theory, it frees Netflix o
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We trained an AI to generate LifeHacker headlines(lifehacker.com)
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by HenryTheHorse 8y ago
That's Demandware, right? I am not familiar with the product, but what did you not like about it?
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by HenryTheHorse 8y ago
How would that be different from reading the New Yorker or Harper's or The Economist? Not only do they pick the most newsworthy stories of the previous week, they also editorialize, comment, qualify, elaborate and explain. Pretty neat!
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by HenryTheHorse 8y ago
"Music Theory" is a very specific term that's used in music studies. It is mostly a descriptive theory in that it studies musical patterns (rhythm, melody, harmony, intervals, scales, modes, chords and chord progressions) b
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by HenryTheHorse 8y ago
Sorry, but you are way out of your league in trying to explain the "gist" of Music Theory in terms of frequencies. That's so not what Music Theory is about.
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by HenryTheHorse 9y ago
> It's not all black and white, oppressed against the oppressor. How's it not so? (Asking, not flaming. I know this is a complex topic and invariably leads to shouting matches.) The idea of caste being used as a means and justi
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by HenryTheHorse 9y ago
> Oh, and a good student is always afraid of being wrong. The classical "right/wrong" paradigm followed me into my music playing too. (Just a bedroom guitarist, not a pro.) It took me years to realize that music - and argu
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by HenryTheHorse 9y ago
My formal sitting (and walking) meditation practice is mostly Shamatha-Vipassana oriented, including Metta meditation. I'll be happy to answer any specific questions that you may have about those practices.
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by HenryTheHorse 9y ago
> And then we became human and started not acting like lobsters. Thank you for saying this. As history has shown, it's only too easy to take a scientific research paper and draw some godawful conclusions from it. We can - and must -
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by HenryTheHorse 9y ago
That's a very interesting point. Writer-filmmaker Errol Morris has written extensively about how there are no absolute truths in a photograph. A photograph, like art, can cover up facts, reveal new truths and distort reality. So when I
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by HenryTheHorse 9y ago
:) I get that - and clearly the move was a failure. In which case, the blame falls squarely on the board. Twitter has a business model/product model problem, among other things.
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by HenryTheHorse 9y ago
Twitter is really a terribly managed business on so many levels, including the one you referred to. It's a mystery as to why their institutional investors haven't staged a coup and brought in new management.
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by HenryTheHorse 9y ago
Which translation was this? Pevear and Volokhonsky?
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by HenryTheHorse 9y ago
> As it gets tougher, I get better at churning and slogging and fighting. Can you please elaborate on that point? How did you get better at that skill? Was it acceptance? Something else?
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by HenryTheHorse 9y ago
"Hate is not good for business" That's the takeaway here? Are we aiming so low these days? If three employees at a company are sitting around a table making derogatory and racist remarks during business hours, that's
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by HenryTheHorse 9y ago
"Lake Woebegone - where every child is above average" - Garrison Keillor
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by HenryTheHorse 9y ago
If I may ask you an unrelated question: since you mentioned you run a small consultancy, how do you manage your clients' expectations about working hours etc? In my experience (also running a small consultancy), clients expect at least
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by HenryTheHorse 9y ago
Jeff Baxter, one of the great guitar players who played with Steely Dan and Doobie Brothers, is now a defense consultant and chairs a Congressional Advisory Board on missile defense . Talk about a radical switch.
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by HenryTheHorse 9y ago
Curious - what does a low-carb Indian/vegetarian diet look like? It seems like one simply can't avoid rice and roti .
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by HenryTheHorse 9y ago
It took an obsessive nerd to actually go to the Library of Congress to research the novel's copyright information (the Pre-Internet Age's equivalent of looking up domain registry information?). Rather smart and perceptive of him,
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by HenryTheHorse 9y ago
As it happened with blogs in the mid-2000s, we are all listening to the same damn 10 podcasts. Discovering quality podcasts based on topic/keyword is almost impossible.
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by HenryTheHorse 9y ago
Unless you download podcasts from websites, almost all podcast apps (iTunes, Overcast, Spotify etc) have a "Top 10" or "highly recommended" section.
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by HenryTheHorse 9y ago
> I think Indian IT firms have gotten a free ride for many years using labor arbitrage. Got it. So Apple building the phone in China or Cisco building routers in China is not labor arbitrage.
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by HenryTheHorse 9y ago
> Moving food to a poor town in the US from somewhere else is a trivial task. You're missing the point, but long as we are trivializing complex social issues, let's ask why there are 13 million hungry kids in the US. https:&#x
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by HenryTheHorse 9y ago
> Really, don't get me wrong You're offering a most disingenuous argument. Would a pediatric hospital in a relatively poorer town in the US ask the same question while treating a child?
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by HenryTheHorse 9y ago
"A favorite book! No! That is extremism!" That quote tells you everything you need to know about the owner of the bookstore. He's not merely a merchant.
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by HenryTheHorse 9y ago
Now there's a relic from another age : the entertainment industry was still operating on the old model, Japan was a perceived threat to US businesses (!) and the Internet was not yet a "problem". I can't imagine the 201
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by HenryTheHorse 9y ago
A brilliant film, on so many levels. A tip of the hat to writer Munshi Premchand, who wrote the short story which formed the basis of Ray's film.

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