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by ajiang 12y ago
Big fan. Email me if you're interested in connecting with the folks at Thorn - they do a lot of work with DHS on child sex trafficking.
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Perfect is the Enemy of Productive(ahjiang.com)
5 points by ajiang 12y ago|1 comments
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Spending More Time with Family(ahjiang.com)
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Repaired with gold(blog.42floors.com)
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The Average Face of 400 CEOs(uk.businessinsider.com)
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Watch Tesla's 691hp Model S P85D Obliterate a Ferrari(carthrottle.com)
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by ajiang 12y ago
Hi Max, of course - happy to clarify. The question actually gets to something we believe in very strongly: real impact on social problems takes focus and commitment. That's why we run a full-time data science fellowship, rather than ha
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by ajiang 12y ago
Hey twelfthnight, great questions - we'll look to include some of these answers in an FAQ on the site. The hackathon will feature fairly exclusive datasets from our project partners, so it'll be tough for folks to do a bunch of wo
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by ajiang 12y ago
Isn't this a problem that can be easily fixed in the same way that HN looks for vote rigging? Seems like one week of work in putting in a fraud detection / collusion / vote weighting system. Also seems to be just a minor grow
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by ajiang 12y ago
Well, just to clarify, I had quit my job well before getting into YC, and it was really helpful to have at least one person be full-time and pushing ahead during the day. It's true that Paul and Eric didn't quit their jobs until Y
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by ajiang 12y ago
Thanks Ajay! We also have been looking to integrate Tilt for a campaign to our site, would love to chat :)
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Unintentionally in YC(medium.com)
70 points by ajiang 12y ago|11 comments
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by ajiang 12y ago
For the record, it's this exact injustice that kicked off Bayes Impact. Pyduan and I sat at dinner talking about my past life in private equity where I spent a lot of time looking at private prison companies, including JPay. There are
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by ajiang 12y ago
I used to do work in this space and personally diligenced JPay for investment purposes. Their profit margins are low for the same reason most successful startups have no profit - growth. They're growing incredibly fast, investing in sa
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by ajiang 12y ago
Like many others that have commented, all of our founders graduated from non-Ivys, have not worked at Google or Facebook, and have definitely not written anything you'd pay for. YC is not for regular people that just want to do great t
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by ajiang 12y ago
There were plenty of older, married founders in our batch (S14) at YC. Some with kids. Message me directly at andrew at bayesimpact.org, and I can connect you with some to speak to.
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by ajiang 12y ago
Truly awesome work and an inspirational journey. You guys are a huge motivation for folks in tech to strive to actually make the world a better place.
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by ajiang 12y ago
I don't know if that's the intention nor the message this generates. It's easy and popular amongst tech folks to say "Why don't we just take the best?" or "Let's make it based on merit". The real
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by ajiang 12y ago
Congrats Julia and Zidisha! Great to see an awesome nonprofit leverage technology to change the game for microfinance.
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by ajiang 12y ago
One big follow up we want to do is to taking a number of hypotheses based on observations, such as yours, and dive into the data to flesh out. More data is needed (patrol patterns, modes of transportation, etc.), but even with analysis of o
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by ajiang 12y ago
Hi comrh, Seattle has been really great at releasing data. Not sure whether or not it came from a FOIA request, but I know from working with Joy Bonaguro (Chief Data Officer of San Francisco) that SF has been working with the police departm
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by ajiang 12y ago
Blog post and data mining done by Jeff Wong, one of our data science mentors who is currently a Senior Data Scientist at Netflix. His own blog is at http://jeffreycwong.com -- check it out, there are some truly awesome pieces fo
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Walking The Beat – Mining Seattle's Police Report Data(bayesimpact.org)
86 points by ajiang 12y ago|29 comments
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by ajiang 12y ago
Create a great product that perfectly solves someone's problems. There's no substitute for creating a great solution. Then, personally, there's the tried and true places to show your work: 1) Show HN 2) ProductHunt 3) Your ow
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by ajiang 12y ago
> 2.) Some famous YC alum are stuck up. Never met anyone as stuck up as the non-technical reddit co-founder. Had to speak up on this. The non-technical reddit co-founder is one of the most helpful, humble, and down-to-earth person I&#x27
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by ajiang 12y ago
Attending Startup School last year was one of the few identifiable events that led me to starting Bayes Impact and joining YC with a nonprofit. Listening to Chase Adams talk about his experience with Watsi was incredibly inspiring, and simi
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by ajiang 12y ago
I have no idea whether or not this is a sound legal / business decision. And yes this could just be "taking off the steering wheel" in a game of chicken. But damn, you have to respect an entrepreneur for taking a stand.
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Secret “too busy raising money to care” about teen suicide warning(pando.com)
3 points by ajiang 12y ago|1 comments
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by ajiang 12y ago
Not only is this an impressive application of data science in solving a real problem, I'm even more impressed that Tanay is still in high school and already building great hacks leveraging computer vision and machine learning. Truly aw
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A Guy Named Craig(nymag.com)
1 points by ajiang 12y ago|0 comments

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