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by _corbett 16y ago
as a female hacker, especially after the objectification of women in the Social Network, this hits close to home even as it's satire. I prefer not to take money for my startup at all, but I definitely won't be taking any from a (douche)bag.
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by _corbett 16y ago
Sure, for my first adventure I found a loophole in some money I was getting as the result of my father's early and tragic death (when I was 6 leaving my mom destitute) wherein it would continue as long as I was in high school. When I did an
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by _corbett 16y ago
http://individual.utoronto.ca/sck/vday.html one of my favorites "Roses are red. Violets are approximately blue. A paracompact manifold with a Lorentzian metric, can be a spacetime, if it has dimension greater than or equal to two."
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by _corbett 16y ago
Retire early and often is my motto. I've now been through my third (fourth?) sabbatical. My advice: keep yourself busy but allow for spontaneity, you don't have to pack it all into one sabbatical, and multitask in your actions (i.e. you can
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by _corbett 16y ago
There was a thread on Quora recently asking what the most beautiful equation was http://www.quora.com/Mathematics/What-is-the-most-beautiful-... , which while it is obviously the Einstein field equations was nice to read through in a simil
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by _corbett 16y ago
Facebook probably the biggest example. I remember when it was Harvard and MIT and actually just for college students. although I used it everyday, I did not at all foresee its skyrocket. now any service I visit every day I pretty much assum
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by _corbett 16y ago
as a researcher I am completely on board with this idea-but to work it has to be built into the culture, the grants, and the way hiring is done. even demanding code be open source is an uphill battle, no major grants in my field provide any
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by _corbett 16y ago
Working hard and long hours is a part of my life–so if a partner doesn't mesh with that they don't mesh with me. I luckily tend to only be attracted to similarly driven people, so it usually works out for me. The few times I've strayed pers
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by _corbett 16y ago
I put my phone in airplane mode for exactly this reason--it's not just being super busy, but I have lots of push notifications setup which in my daily life are helpful but while I'm sleeping or socializing not. However I need various other
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by _corbett 16y ago
A few scattered thoughts: o I would divide into specific positions, and for each position mention responsibilities and accomplishments o Omit any irrelevant unless you have extra space on the single page (Cashier, etc.). o "Advisor: my advi
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by _corbett 16y ago
really cool idea! looking forward to where it goes.
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by _corbett 16y ago
I'm surprised about the negativity here, one of the most fun parts about being an entrepreneur is exercising this knack for getting money aspect (I'd say start a non-profit if your business has nothing to do with this, but they have to hust
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by _corbett 16y ago
I think it's a great resume. Does the job quickly: Do I want to schedule an interview with him/her y/n? y
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by _corbett 16y ago
any new food related startup should have a domain name ending in .nom /cc ICANN pro: I was speaking with a UX designer recently who mentioned his parents didn't know what a url was, they simply typed the website they were interested in into
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by _corbett 16y ago
I went to MIT and could not have been happier with my decision. Highest concentration of amazing people in the world IMHO (and I am proud to call a quite a few of them friends) and a huge density of inspiration. As for $100k, I went for fre
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by _corbett 16y ago
I concur–the US has a big market and a big advantage culturally in terms of startups. Switzerland has the opposite problem, people are very ambitious, expect to earn a lot of money, and so are unwilling to take the pay cut to go to startups
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by _corbett 16y ago
Switzerland is by no means socialist and is rather an example of many libertarian ideals. Taxes are done by canton (city/state) and in some one can pay as little as no income tax. Health care is required, decoupled from employment and well
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by _corbett 16y ago
This article rings true to me. I've lived and worked in Norway for a successful startup (FAST Search, later bought by Microsoft) above the Arctic circle. It's a lovely country, the startup did feel like a family (in fact, many brought their
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by _corbett 16y ago
I’m a huge user of delicious, with 2906 bookmarks and 3100 tags. In fact, if I were to pick one Web 2.0 site, it would be this simple straightforward one. I use to organize new lines of research (into an intellectual matter or something as
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by _corbett 16y ago
this class was hands down the best taught class I took at MIT in a tough competition. still–the notes don't have to be submitted every 2 months :-)
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by _corbett 16y ago
as he goes by Moxie socially as well, doesn't want his true name to be revealed is a bit sensational
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by _corbett 16y ago
the website is a little hokey but I found the tutorials/mini courses on MPI and OpenMP on http://ci-tutor.ncsa.illinois.edu/browse.php very useful
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by _corbett 16y ago
yea for sure, I meant in my advice that a non-statistical solution might be good to start out with.
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by _corbett 16y ago
this could be an NLP problem although if you can find an adequate solution with a regular expression/context free grammar that's the easier route. a lot of modern NLP is based on statistical methods and training data driven, meaning having
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by _corbett 16y ago
I think nltk in combination with another reference is a great way to learn. You can start out with a small project, have it functional off the ground, then dig deeper. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput... is exc
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by _corbett 16y ago
translation is also a lot harder for data poor pairs of languages. machine translation relies on training on a parallel corpus (=same text, different languages), and gets better the bigger this is.
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by _corbett 16y ago
Mary Boas' "Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences" is also excellent, I'm using it for a course I'm teaching. At a level where a student is comfortable with calculus it presents an overview of the many areas needed to make graduate
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by _corbett 16y ago
I first started programming in college (late bloomer) and learned lisp, python, java, ruby and a smattering of other languages in class/internships and have taught java at the intro level. Java is a difficult language IMO to teach as a firs
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by _corbett 16y ago
Club Mate when in German speaking lands is a favorite. My other favorite non standard staples are tap water + a few tablespoons of juice, microbrew beers, soy chai with a double shot of espresso, coffee made with Moka pots, and gin.
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by _corbett 16y ago
Well it does make a difference to me. So there's one data point. I used to think like you do... some things changed my mind. At MIT they (my professors, colleagues and textbooks) always used non-gendered language. Here's a good essay by Dou

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