alxbrun

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by alxbrun 13y ago
Given the average level of morale and motivation of Groupon's employees right now, I'm not sure why I would want to follow Mason's advice...
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by alxbrun 13y ago
I guess Mason read "The 4-hour workweek" -- they say educational crap err CDs etc. are the highest-margin, easiest to sell product.
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by alxbrun 13y ago
Or even go the OCR approach !
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by alxbrun 13y ago
Don't fly, travel overland, that's the most interesting part of the trip, especially the remote areas near borders... The worst is to book this round-the-world ticket, where you have to decide in advance how long you'll stay
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by alxbrun 13y ago
As always, the UK merely acts as a vassal to the US.
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by alxbrun 13y ago
> Either he's losing track of his lies, he's bad at math or he has unrealistic expectations about life expectancy. Hey, you forget how health care is so great in France :p
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by alxbrun 13y ago
So, do you think it will help Watson be a good customer service agent ? PS. Each time I read that a computer "understands" human language, I have a good laugh.
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by alxbrun 13y ago
I don't think it will work. Watson roughly works this way (of course it's much more sophisticated than that): 1- Identify the type of entity of the answer (does the question start with "who" ? or "when" ? etc. 2- Gather as many facts and bl
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by alxbrun 13y ago
"Familiarity with web servers and HTML would be helpful but is not necessary." Great pioneering times !
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by alxbrun 14y ago
"AppGratis simply served a need, both on the consumer side (App discovery) [...]" How can you call "discovery" a process where users receive everyday a push for the app that paid the highest bid to AppGratis ?
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by alxbrun 14y ago
→ ./dsmos Segmentation fault: 11 On Mountain Lion.
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by alxbrun 14y ago
Interesting but only works if you have a consumer or SMB product. Enterprise sales is a completely different game, where granularity (at least at the beginning, when you have just a few sales a year) prevents you from doing sexy dashboards
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by alxbrun 14y ago
Richard Feynman - The Character of Physical Laws http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3mhkYbznBk Incredible talk for both the content and the form ! There is so much we could learn from him.
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by alxbrun 14y ago
"At EA we remain proud and unbowed." Enjoy until you go bankrupt, dear Mr Moore. At the beginning I thought it was good piece of humble thoughts: What did we do wrong ? How can we improve ? Then I realized it was exactly the contrary. Atroc
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by alxbrun 14y ago
Fair enough, it was a little bit of provocation. As I said if you like maths and programming, just design trading algorithms for them !
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by alxbrun 14y ago
I recently sold my company and I agree with Jake. What most commenters don't understand, in my opinion, is that real entrepreneurs don't start their company to get rich. If getting rich is your priority, become an investment banker (If you
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by alxbrun 14y ago
PR opportunity.
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by alxbrun 14y ago
"Why do you think OkCupid messages exist? It's not actually for 'connecting', because who's on there looking for a penpal? " My friend, to start with you should learn a little bit about women psychology... Online dating != Picking up items
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by alxbrun 14y ago
Tough decision to make, Instacart: - keep the policy unchanged, and lose your customers, or - remove the $35 minimum, and lose money on every order Welcome to the real world !
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by alxbrun 14y ago
Regarding iteration vs. innovation, I'm so mad each time I hear about Square, Stripe, Balanced, etc. etc. as innovations in the payments space. Find me a way to get rid of the absurd 3% worldwide tax that Visa, Amex, Mastercard take on e
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by alxbrun 14y ago
I agree with you. URL is just one kind of the things we need to quickly store. We also need short notes, pictures, blobs, sounds.. and for that, we need something like Evernote. Having an app just for URLs seems crazy to me. Just MOO.
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by alxbrun 14y ago
I'm wondering who needs a bookmarking app in 2013, let alone pay for it.
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by alxbrun 14y ago
Really weird for a dolphin tour business to do a coupon deal... How on earth would somebody become a regular customer of a dolphin tour ?
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by alxbrun 14y ago
"What hasn’t? Graphs without labels on the Y axis." +1
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by alxbrun 14y ago
I don't like Mason, but I like this smart, classy, honest message. And he has a great sense of humour.
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by alxbrun 14y ago
In my opinion, Yann LeCun is one of the top celebrities in ML/Neural Net research. His voice really has weight.
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Nuance Has Bought Virtual Assistant Specialist VirtuOz(techcrunch.com)
2 points by alxbrun 14y ago|0 comments
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by alxbrun 14y ago
I agree it shouldn't happen. But honestly, is this really worse than what FB does ?
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by alxbrun 14y ago
What happens to the Heisenberg principle ??? :P
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by alxbrun 14y ago
+1

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