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by alexmingoia 10y ago
It doesn't matter. Really. Why even waste so much time making a choice over something irrelevant to your software's success? Just do whatever is easier.
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by alexmingoia 10y ago
VR is great but making any decent 3D model or environment requires enormous amount of labor. Without better tools I don't see VR being used for anything but games since you'll need to throw huge teams and many hours at making anyt
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by alexmingoia 10y ago
Reducing expenses is a far worse strategy than increasing earnings. There's usually not a lot of wiggle-room for expenses and there's a limit to how much you can reduce, whereas there's almost no limit to increasing earnings.
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by alexmingoia 10y ago
To escape Google (and what Google now represents) we have to replace the WWW and arguably the Internet with something like I2P. Encryption and anonimity need to be baked into the protocol. You can't just run to another website to escap
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by alexmingoia 10y ago
It's a disgrace that no one is held responsible for healthcare.gov. We get article after article about "Silicon Valley" and their noble role in this shit show, yet not a single article about the criminally idiotic and corrupt
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by alexmingoia 10y ago
Well first you need to identify the problem you're trying to solve. "something is wrong with capitalism and the way current governments operate" is completely arbitrary and meaningless.
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by alexmingoia 10y ago
The Turks and the English were brewing coffee in the 1600s. Could you point me to a source for Kyoto doing iced coffee in the 1600s?
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by alexmingoia 10y ago
Xero. The docs are accurate and complete. The API is consistent. The API works as documented. The API is capable of everything the webapp does. https://developer.xero.com/documentation/api/api-overview/
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by alexmingoia 10y ago
What makes this process Japanese, exactly? I remember my parents doing it and nobody called it "Japanese Iced Coffee"
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by alexmingoia 10y ago
Equity isn't where all the control comes from. Because they raised 9mil it's almost a sure thing they'll have to raise another round or go bust, so there's huge incentive to do what investors want.
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by alexmingoia 10y ago
You can't have your cake and eat it too. If managers want accurate estimates, they need to allow just as much time planning and estimating as they do for developing. And requirements must be frozen. Just look at construction - spend ye
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by alexmingoia 10y ago
The principal reason devices need to be connected is so that business can hold your devices ransom and charge you money to use them. Turn on lights with a phone? No need for Internet. Open doors with a fingerprint? No need for Internet. An
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by alexmingoia 10y ago
Numerai uses order-preserving encryption, which is homomorphic. The algos are trained on the ciphertext itself.
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by alexmingoia 10y ago
That's not possible. The data is encrypted. None of the participants can see which stocks (or anything) about the data they train with. Numerai turns stock prediction into a pure ML problem.
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by alexmingoia 10y ago
The same reason any trader wants to go long Salmar ASA: Their model says so. Except with numerai, the model is a machine-learning algorithm instead of a human with their bias and intuition.
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by alexmingoia 12y ago
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