NY_USA_Hacker

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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
Part I Sorry you had problems. Many people have had problems, even very serious ones. I've seen it happen too often that a Ph.D. program causes stress, for years, and that is well known to cause depression, clinical depression, and even s
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
Part II "Quals will still require reading deeply from the literature. You will be expected to know all the fundamentals in your computer science area to pass." First, I saw very little that was "deep" anywhere in computer science, yes, fro
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
Each indicates a non-standard, somewhat politically incorrect, 'street-wise', hush-hush, secret of the real world remark!
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
You wrote: "I know I won't get a degree out of this and I doubt I can get published" Sorry to disagree! :-)! For getting published, try some journal on human-computer interaction. Since you know much more about your field than I do, look
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
"I can't keep count of the number of people who I talk to on a daily basis online or in person, at networking events, etc... that acts as if their idea is so revolutionary that they must keep it to themselves. This is utter bullshit." Not
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
Your "ten years ahead of the market" is not very well defined or meaningful. If a business idea is poor, then there have to be better objections than that. If that's the only objection, then it is not very serious. There can be many reaso
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
They have: "3. Sustainable competitive advantage. This is a really tough one that most start-ups don’t have, and you can’t just change strategies to get one. If your venture is not built off of some protectable and scalable technology, V
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
They didn't grow to be successful businesses, but that they are too young is not the reason. One of the ideas and papers was, and remains, a candidate for a successful, new business, but it would take a little more cash than I have to get
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
"First mover advantage" is still an 'advantage'. E.g., Hughes Tool. Xerox and their photocopier that they made for about $1500 and sold for about $29,000. FedEx had a nice first mover advantage: They were flying under CAB regulation Par
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
No, not always or really: In research, the 'idea', if it is correct, really is the core of the work. All it takes to win the Abel prize and more is a good idea for answering the question P versus NP. The only difficulty is the idea. The
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
Gee, it must be fun to call entrepreneurs silly. My view is that the article is 99 44/100%, fresh, soft, still steaming, and actually destructive, BS. The whole post is based on what is apparently deliberately both an obscure and even ambig
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
When an entrepreneur gets a "rejection" by a venture partner, that is only very weak evidence that there is anything wrong with the entrepreneur's project. Instead, the project might become very successful. Uh, a venture partner is not so
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
The labor unions will kill any such effort. The whole state of Michigan is just in LOVE with the labor union efforts that killed Detroit. Until Michigan gives up on labor unions, f'get about it.
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FedEx
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
So, Amazon has: "People who bought this book bought some of these other five books." This 'recommendation' only requires simple counting and nothing like 'correlation'. The technique has some pros and cons. I can believe that the technique
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
Largely I agree with him, and at times I suspected some such. E.g., just testing some software, I generated some 'random' symmetric, positive definite matrices, found the eigenvalues, and noticed that there was a big one and the sizes went
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
There's a point he omitted: In curve fitting, exploratory data analysis, data mining, etc., we are looking for X. We don't know if X exists. But if X does exist, then our methods have a shot at finding X. So, we look. Maybe we find somet
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
I'm not "trolling" at all. Instead, this is serious stuff. To be self-interested about this, there is a risk of WWIII that would hurt me also. This is about the importance of 'democracy', that is, settling political differences at the bal
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
Let's see, the headline is: "Defiant Mubarak vows to stay in office until Sept. elections" and the article has: "Hundreds of thousands of protesters respond to Mubarak's speech with 'get out, get out!'" So, Egypt is a country with some tens
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
This article is a great example of several currently important points about 'old media': Exaggeration The article exaggerates, wildly. So, the article shows a Stradivarius violin which will have to be one of the last 'macro' sized objects