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by Pandabob 7y ago
More thorough notes from Thiel's speech by Bonnie Kavoussi (via Marginal Revolution): https://medium.com/@bonniekavoussi/notes-from-peter-thiels-s...
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by Pandabob 7y ago
Yup. I guess spending time with family and friends makes it better. At least it does for me. We adopted a dog with my girlfriend this January and I'd say that just spending time with him alleviates it. I'd imagine having kids will
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Ask HN: How to go from (software) consulting to building your own product?
2 points by Pandabob 7y ago|1 comments
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by Pandabob 7y ago
Can you expand on the lack of market validation? What else would validating include, apart from interviewing users (qualitative research)? What kind of useful quantitative research could one do? The obvious answer I can come up with is buil
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by Pandabob 7y ago
There are actually multiple levels of (Instagram) influencing. On the one end you have your mega influencers like Kylie Jenner. On the other there, are so called nano influencers, with as few as a thousand followers (and up to 10k). Usually
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by Pandabob 7y ago
The book is at least partly inspired by a blog post by one of the authors that made the rounds a couple of years ago: https://medium.com/@yegg/mental-models-i-find-repeatedly-use...
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Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models(superthinking.com)
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by Pandabob 8y ago
By networking. Even smaller towns nowadays have specific community events that are worth attending just for the networking part. If you can't find one about data science or AI, try going to the local Web development meetup and, for exa
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by Pandabob 8y ago
How's agency life compared to working at a startup? I'm currently at an agency in Stockholm and I'm thinking if I should go try out what's it like on the other side.
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by Pandabob 8y ago
Look, I don't want to be a Europe apologist because the continent does have it's problems, but having moved just to Stockholm, the startup scene here seems to be very much hitting its stride. There have been relatively big exits i
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by Pandabob 8y ago
Is this for real? I mean is this common? That's €240k, which is starting to near SF levels of pay. I've got a hard time believing this but will look into it more thoroughly. As a data scientist in Finland, I've been under the
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by Pandabob 9y ago
I'm pretty sure data engineering can be extremely lucrative, and can be easier for a backend engineer to jump into. Think of it as backend development on steroids, where you architecture and build the infrastructure for "big data&
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by Pandabob 9y ago
Hacker News, Marginal Revolution and the Financial Times. Reddit mostly for leisure, but occasionally also for knowledge and inspiration. Recently I've tried to make my procrastination more useful, and read random Wikipedia articles in
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by Pandabob 9y ago
Econtalk for its usually insightful discussions. http://www.econtalk.org/ Conversations with Tyler for the same reason as Econtalk. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/conversations-with-tyler... ?
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by Pandabob 9y ago
Would Marissa Mayer be a good fit for Uber CEO? Given that she just resigned from Yahoo, one would think the board would at least consider her. Unless they're going to choose the next CEO from within the company.
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by Pandabob 9y ago
THIS! Subscribing to audible has been a game changer for me. And once you get used to it, listening on fast forward has made the experience more pleasurable and you go through the books faster. On a side note, I wish audible would make down
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by Pandabob 9y ago
I started the AI engineer nanodegree in April and so far have been happy ( https://www.udacity.com/course/artificial-intelligence-nanod... ) The first three months are basically a walkthrough of Peter Norvigs AI book, an
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by Pandabob 9y ago
On a related topic, I'm graduating with a master's in (computational) physics, and am already incredibly insecure about not having a PhD as many of the data science positions seem to prefer those. Would a four year PhD, let's
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by Pandabob 10y ago
Interesting. I've been thinking about subscribing to "Stratechery" by Ben Thompson. Any recommendations for or against it? Currently subscribed to: - The Morning Paper ( https://blog.acolyer.org/ ) - Benedict E
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by Pandabob 10y ago
I really like hackernoon and could see myself paying for more content like that. If they could convince some more high(er) profile tech/startup bloggers to use their platform, like Ben Thompson from exponent or Benedict Evans from A16Z
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by Pandabob 10y ago
Vue.js and particle transport equations.
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by Pandabob 10y ago
Thanks for the link. Getting into containers and the whole container ecosystem has felt really daunting. I'll definitely check this out.
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by Pandabob 10y ago
I stopped playing computer games in 2014 after getting a mac, with the exception of some mobile games here and there. I am however looking forward to the Nintendo Switch. I feel like Nintendo games are good fun and challenging, and at their
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by Pandabob 11y ago
I'm starting my first Fortran (90/95) course tomorrow as part of my studies in astronomy. Having only used python and javascript before, I'm excited and terrified at the same time. The syntax just seems really different compa
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Public Transit Should Be Uber’s New Best Friend(fivethirtyeight.com)
1 points by Pandabob 11y ago|0 comments
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by Pandabob 11y ago
Funny how, as a Finn, the more international vibe of Sweden is one of the main reasons why I'm planning on immigrating there after graduation.
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by Pandabob 12y ago
I've often seen "An introduction to statistical learning" [1] and "Elements of statistical learning" [2] cited as good resources for statistical inference and machine learning. The former is more of an undergrad tex
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by Pandabob 12y ago
I saw Rovios head of marketing, Peter Vesterbacka, give a talk at the finnish startup conference Slush last month. I could not believe my ears when he made the claim that Rovio makes the best games. Period. I think part of their problem has