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by alook 13y ago
Yeah, it's surprising this medium hasn't been explored more. It seems like everyone just finally figured out app install ads. Especially since the nascent mobile advertising market focused so heavily on the gaming industry, it mak
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by alook 13y ago
(CTO here) Thanks for the feedback! We didn't actually skip demo day, we did indeed present and vet our pitch with investors - just figured we didn't need the press at that point. Besides "you are X", the other feedback
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by alook 13y ago
Agreed on 2-5, the state of how we collect data on in-app activity seems to totally miss the point of context. Something where we collect visual data on live user sessions seems like it may open the door to getting a deeper understanding of
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by alook 13y ago
+1 on this app. I've been using it and am stoked :) Good stuff, airlocksoftware!
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by alook 14y ago
100% agree. It was great how he spent a lot of time on logistic regression before delving into SVM's or Neural Nets - it was much easier to understand the cost functions & regularization for other types of classifiers after having under
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by alook 14y ago
> California has such a horrible economy and complete lack of entrepreneurialism Can you elaborate on what kind of policies towards entrepreneurship are better in Alabama and Arkansas? Seems to me that SF Bay Area and Los Angeles are bo
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by alook 14y ago
I agree that California has some great policies that other states should follow - but it's somewhat troubling that this article highlights some of the more negative aspects of CA: > Implementing these taxes nation-wide would ensure the
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by alook 14y ago
> machine learning is applied statistics It really is hard to separate ML & statistics - any competent practicioner of ML appreciates the statistical achievements that made Machine Learning methods possible. And statisticians must u
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Lean Startup Conference - Crowdsourced Notes from WeWorkLabs(docs.google.com)
2 points by alook 14y ago|0 comments
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by alook 14y ago
great read - I think there's a lack of good PR advice on hackernews.
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by alook 14y ago
Agreed - my problem with "The Best" was the idea of spending weeks researching to find the best quality things, for every belonging you own. For a while, I favored "The Worst" - I liked having a few missing keys on my laptop, and the challe
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Patent trolls come under US antitrust authority scrutiny(h-online.com)
1 points by alook 14y ago|0 comments
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by alook 14y ago
He doesn't seem to address the fact that he's being accused of murder. Looks like there is an extradition treaty between Belize and the US as of 2007 [1], but it looks like Belize tends to prefer deportation [2]. Is anyone clear on whether
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by alook 14y ago
Time to switch to Kaspersky!
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Interview on emergence of 'Data Science' with Google Statistician(plus.google.com)
4 points by alook 14y ago|0 comments
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Creative Thinking and Data Science(datascopeanalytics.com)
3 points by alook 14y ago|0 comments
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by alook 14y ago
Who DDOS'es twitter? Mercurial committers? the Bitbucket people?
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by alook 14y ago
Any thoughts on how startup Chile compares to traditional Silicon Valley incubators? Obviously, they don't take equity and have a focus on contributing to the entrepreneurial community. A good friend of mine just flew down to Santiago for S
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by alook 14y ago
I've been mulling the idea of SOA-on-heroku lately - I'm used to working with SOA where the web service is publicly exposed, and the services are all available only on the intranet. This brings up bigger questions with regards to authentica
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by alook 14y ago
A few ideas. 1) Try to be more selective with the meetups you attend. Particularly, meetups focused around a programming language or a specific technology (Python/Hadoop/Node.js/etc) are likely to have more dedicated technical attendees. Bo
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by alook 14y ago
Doesn't Copenhagen also structure its traffic protocols around bicycle commuters? For instance, letting cyclists go on a green light several seconds before cars, in order to ensure that nearby drivers can see them? Copenhagen has done studi
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by alook 14y ago
Great concept to add to that XKCD concept. It's interesting - when I type "Once Upon A Time", "Upon" becomes green, whereas "upon" was yellow. I suppose the takeaway is to not follow grammatical rules with your passwords?
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by alook 14y ago
what do you think of "Scala IDE" vs. other JVM-friendly IDE's with Scala support (like IntelliJ)
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by alook 14y ago
Regarding R for BigData, do you think R is going to continue to be a stable of the analytical toolset as data sizes continues to grow? I use R to prototype machine learning techniques on a small set of data, or visualize some summary statis