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by Travis 16y ago
My two major takeaways were as follows: 1) value comes from exploiting market inefficiencies in many cases 2) separate results from process (cause from effect) 3) intangibles are generally a weasel term for fitting the data to a narrative e
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by Travis 16y ago
What I've read and heard from talking to a few scouts, teams don't look @ HS stats at all. With few exceptions (Bryce Harper is #1 ATM), they want projectability rather than performance.
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by Travis 16y ago
I think the minor league (and Japanese league) translations are pretty well nailed down these days. See http://www.baseballprospectus.com/statistics/minoreqa.php Of course, there is a huge amount of volatility, due to the changing true t
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by Travis 16y ago
Everything coming out of the SABR community (SABR=society of american baseball researchers) says that high school stats are 99.9% worthless. The reasons are many, but mainly it's the following: inconsistent contexts (fields, opponents, lev
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by Travis 16y ago
How many of those beta accounts are paying? Like I said, I know nothing of the space, so I wasn't even aware of competitors. I think that's good news that there are others already succeeding, now you just have to do things better than they
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by Travis 16y ago
How many potential customers have you talked to that said they would 100% purchase this? While I would love it if you'd prove me wrong (go, do it! be a success!), your responses here appear a little naive. Spending 2 years building someth
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by Travis 16y ago
I was in a similar spot about 6 months ago, and was looking in the SoCal angel scene. I found that having a prototype was awesome. Except that my prototype only had a few early users (under 1k, IIRC). The angels were impressed I had put i
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by Travis 16y ago
On the other hand, because of the utility-based charges, you can run tests for a week or two if you'd like. Also, it sounds like what you're looking for is basically a calculator on top of the service -- are there really no decent calculato
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by Travis 16y ago
I've seen some aggressive stuff out of Excite, as well (although I only know a few people who use them). One other reason someone might hit "Report Spam" rather than unsubscribe: your unsubscribe page requires an account login (rather than
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by Travis 16y ago
You don't need to "become a Buddhist". Just expose yourself to some of their ways of thinking. Also, practice (= meditation). You'll pick a lot of this up as you get older, as well. It's a natural maturation process. I've been out of co
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by Travis 16y ago
Take it from me -- you'll feel like you're doing pointless grind work in the "real world" as well. Except in a job, you'll feel the oppression even more. My problem has always been the curse of originality, or analysis paralysis. I think
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by Travis 16y ago
I would like to emphasize ecaroth's point: Just start making stuff. Who cares if somebody already made it. Who cares if nobody will ever see it. Getting over that, in the last couple of years, has been the single best thing I could do for
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by Travis 16y ago
You got the oft-excluded part of the quote right -- temporary security -- but the actual quote is, "he who would trade Essential Liberty for some Temporary Security, deserves neither Liberty or Security." Many people omit the word, "tempo
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by Travis 16y ago
I just noticed you don't have an email in your profile. Drop me an email, mine is in my profile.
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by Travis 16y ago
I'm in San Diego and forwarded your information to a contact of mine that is in this field. I'll follow up via email with whatever reply I get.
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by Travis 16y ago
This is only marginally relevant (it doesn't directly address the specific codecs in use for std vs high def streaming), but torrenting a full movie in standard def versus high def is usually only a factor of 2-3x, at most. While that is mo
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by Travis 16y ago
You need to educate yourself on some of the happiness research that is ongoing. It appears that people are very, very bad about predicting what will make them happy. There is also apparently something like a happiness equilibrium -- lotto
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by Travis 16y ago
On http://simplton.com/philosophy I would make the bullet points the only content on the page. Click them and it expands to show your explanation. For something that focuses on simplicity, you sure have a lot of words. If I were you, I'
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by Travis 16y ago
It's worth noting that the science behind Vitamin D supplements is far from settled. On Nov 30, 2010, the USRDA lowered their recommended amount from 2000mg to 600mg for healthy adults. This reflects what the EU publishes as the recommende
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by Travis 16y ago
Have you looked into Solr/Lucene? They're run by the apache foundation -- Lucene is the actual engine, and Solr is kind of a wrapper around it. Pretty easy to setup, will parse numerous input document formats. solr.apache.org i believe.
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by Travis 16y ago
I believe that Apple's iPhone Remote app and iTunes already have something similar to this. You can vote for songs from ipad/iphone devices connected to a central itunes library that plays the music. http://www.apple.com/itunes/remote/
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by Travis 16y ago
We can also look to the AdBlock extension. They have prefilled lists that you can customize, so it's a "shared ecosystem" that you subscribe to, then customize yourself.
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by Travis 16y ago
What's wrong with him trying to sell his stuff to you? It's not obtrusive, the content is valuable. Heck, he's not even selling you , via adverts. Are you under some illusion that sites run by for-profit companies have a primary purpose
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by Travis 16y ago
What do you consider a reasonable daily operating expense for the 3rd biggest site on the internet, that is running an extremely complex system built on amazing and reliable infrastructure internationally?
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by Travis 16y ago
Your edit is interesting. Google seems to actively reject the idea of doing things that aren't automatic. That's why you hear the horror stories of people getting blocked from adwords (frequently with google taking their balance back, too
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by Travis 16y ago
Will you please clarify your response? It seems like you're conflating 2 different things. The two things that I see here are: 1) How do we determine who is a good teacher versus a bad teacher? 2) Should we fire "bad" teachers, or should
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by Travis 16y ago
I'm not sure splitting it up is the solution. But I 100% agree, it's become a bloated piece of crap. I've thought this for a long time now. Anyone have any alternatives, that aren't something like MythTV? I just want a lightweight multi
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by Travis 16y ago
Sorry, just to clarify a bit: it's not that I consider it unproductive because I don't like it, but because my personal productivity is much less for projects I am less engaged in. So I'm less productive due to the nature of the work. And
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by Travis 16y ago
These are the questions that make us human. I, all to frequently, feel like everyone around me is simply a machine for turning O2 into CO2. Reminds me of this xkcd -- http://xkcd.com/610/ I believe that everyone can find their purpose
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by Travis 16y ago
It's not that it is unproductive (for me), but rather that it feels like drudge work. Which makes me less motivated to do it, which negatively influences my productivity on other parts of the project. I think we can add documentation to t

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