JacobDotVI

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by JacobDotVI 7y ago
The author's point about dissemination of information is spot-on. A couple of years ago, I read Medieval Technology and Social Change, by Lynn White ( https://www.amazon.com/Medieval-Technology-Social-Change-Whi... ) as
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by JacobDotVI 7y ago
Most US Government produced works are public domain. https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Organization/About/use.html
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by JacobDotVI 7y ago
There was even an Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Symposium held in 1979 - https://blog.jacob.vi/an-80s-throwback-artificial-intelligen... In response to the above blog - Watson's early small-scale success clearly
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by JacobDotVI 7y ago
Microsoft had a pretty impressive demo of a 3D recreation of Notre Dame using photos scrapped from Flickr back in 2007: https://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_demos_photos... I believe they used to have a view
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by JacobDotVI 8y ago
GMV is Gross Merchandise Value, not stock price. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_merchandise_volume eBay states there's here: https://ebayadvertising.com The question is what is the GMV for Amazon&
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by JacobDotVI 8y ago
Potentially but not necessarily. Two thoughts: 1) I may not need to see the data itself during most (or all) of my dev loop, but just see any errors that are thrown. 2) Taken as risk mitigation, data temporarily cached in your browser is le
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by JacobDotVI 8y ago
HIPAA - I want to be able to build data pipelines against patient data without the data itself leaving the server. Having my dev loop live on the same server as sample data is better than working against fake or synthetic data locally
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by JacobDotVI 8y ago
United Technologies once owned United Airlines in a vertical play, before anti-trust pressure led them to split up: >The origin of UTC lies with the company formed in 1928 by William E. Boeing as Boeing Airplane & Transport Corporati
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by JacobDotVI 8y ago
This is awesome! I did a similar thing a couple of years ago for framed prints of space: http://omgspaceisawesome.com
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by JacobDotVI 8y ago
Often times instead of the list of US Sates, you actually want to list of US States and Territories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories... For example when the intent is "list of place wh
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by JacobDotVI 8y ago
Sometimes an extra 10 months means seeing your child graduate college / get married / have your first grandchild.
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by JacobDotVI 8y ago
from: https://stratechery.com/2017/ends-means-and-antitrust/ "What is the Standard for Determining Illegal Behavior? "The United States and European Union have, at least since the Reagan Administration,
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by JacobDotVI 8y ago
Patio11 has a great tweet thread about it: https://mobile.twitter.com/patio11/status/988094196274769920
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by JacobDotVI 8y ago
I'm not sure about the psychology of incentives angle, but this old post from reddit shows the monumental difference in wealth between $700M and $4B: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2s9u0s&#x2
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by JacobDotVI 8y ago
@breck - I'm working on some projects that are tangential to this on both sided and I'd love to hear your thoughts on connecting healthcare IT to bio-research. What kind of healthcare data would you be looking to receive on the b
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by JacobDotVI 8y ago
>At the same time, I had been fascinated by the legal innovator's paradox: the fact that there is an intrinsic disincentive to innovate when you don't capture the gains of increased productivity, which is true in an hourly bill
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by JacobDotVI 8y ago
"House" by Tracy Kidder is such a fantastic book. Kidder does a great job pulling you into the story of the house and the folks involved with the process. My favorite scene (if I recall correctly) is one where the owner's f
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by JacobDotVI 8y ago
Calling out the deployment side is huge - You may have tested your ETL software itself, but once real data starts flowing through the pipes all bets are off. You might be interested in this read about the concept of pipeline debt: https:&
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by JacobDotVI 8y ago
What about Robot Turtles by Dan Shapiro? https://www.amazon.com/Think-Fun-Turtles-Coding-Preschoolers...
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by JacobDotVI 8y ago
It's worse than that: "63% Of Americans Don't Have Enough Savings To Cover A $500 Emergency" https://www.forbes.com/sites/maggiemcgrath/2016/01/06/63-of-...
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by JacobDotVI 8y ago
I hope this is part of how Amazon / JPM / Berkshire goes after health care, by becoming a TPA and reducing these admin costs through an API layer: https://blog.jacob.vi/amazon-as-a-tpa-or-how-amazon-solved-i...
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by JacobDotVI 8y ago
Great insights. Are you seeing startups that grow into multi-nationals adopting SAP? or are their smaller system growing up with their needs? E.g. what does Google, etc. use for ERP?
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by JacobDotVI 8y ago
The book Softwars spends a lot of time on this topic, where Larry Ellison blasted all of his integration partners for over-customizing their solutions when the correct approach was to update the business processes to match the software: ht
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by JacobDotVI 8y ago
From Edward Tufte’s book “Data Analysis for Politics and Policy”: “One day when I was a junior medical student, a very important Boston surgeon visited the school and delivered a great treatise on a large number of patients who had undergon
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by JacobDotVI 8y ago
If you want to learn a little more about how Atul Gawande looks at the healthcare system read Being Mortal. IMHO it's more relevant than Checklist Manifesto, esp. wrt what Amazon could do here: https://www.amazon.com/B
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by JacobDotVI 8y ago
The US has fluctuated between conglomerates being in vogue and not. GE being one of the last surviving conglomerates and on it's way out. You can chalk this up to a variety of reasons including: tax policy, activist shareholders, etc
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by JacobDotVI 9y ago
As a note - Residents of US Territories pay territorial personal income taxes instead of federal personal income taxes. In the US Virgin Islands, for example, the tax rates are the exact same, as the USVI tax code mirrors the US Tax Co
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by JacobDotVI 9y ago
Washington, DC has slug lines, which are exactly that. http://www.slug-lines.com/Slugging/About_slugging.asp
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by JacobDotVI 9y ago
Thank you Sam! I found what I needed for this first relief flight, but we have a much larger flight headed down later in the week. I will reach out to you directly to ask some questions!

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