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by amirmc 13y ago
> "I claim the opposite of you: that current law exclusively helps the existing, larger companies." I'm trying to point out that it's driven by whoever is bigger and has deeper pockets. Either for patent fees or fo
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by amirmc 13y ago
"Without patents, some can have a good idea, invent something and become rich." Equally, they could have a good idea, invent something and then have an existing, larger company just copy it outright (with no legal recourse for t
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by amirmc 13y ago
Chad, it seems your thoughts on this match our own. Have you come across Unikernels [0], MirageOS [1] or Nymote [2]? [0] http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2566628 [1] http://openmirage.org/ [2] http:&#x2F
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by amirmc 13y ago
"But while big data promise much to scientists, entrepreneurs and governments, they are doomed to disappoint us if we ignore some very familiar statistical lessons. “There are a lot of small data problems that occur in big data,” says
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by amirmc 13y ago
"VS means, by definition, that the patient is unresponsive." And IIRC they were VS until such studies demonstrated that actually not all of them were (which was my point).
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by amirmc 13y ago
"Facebook will have earned the right after having likely spent millions in the three digit range to get it going." This is true. That's exactly why people find it sad.
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by amirmc 13y ago
On the point about scaling, the knowledge of how to do that lives with people. I seriously doubt that Oculus would have a problem hiring the right people (or raising enough money to do so).
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by amirmc 13y ago
The link you provide doesn't support your assertion. 5 votes for a bitcoin story that had three comments, none of which say they didn't understand the website. Edit: and the new link you just added has 4 votes and no comments.
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by amirmc 13y ago
Maybe this will help [1]. I didn't understand the site either but I kind of stumbled on to 'blockchain for contracts' (no idea whether that's right or wrong). In any case it seems like there are a lot of people in Ethe
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by amirmc 13y ago
fMRI is a tool. Just like every other tool it can be wielded skilfully or incompetently and in the case of fMRI you must do your stats properly (c.f. the Multiple Comparisons problem [1]). There's nothing out there that 'debunks
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by amirmc 13y ago
The sibling comment is correct, in that you're always measuring differences. The 'baseline' isn't a canonical one but specific to your experimental design (and research question). For example, if I were interested in wh
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by amirmc 13y ago
I'll try breaking it down, along with the questions that came to mind as I read it. ... people with high justice sensitivity showed more activity than average participants in parts of the brain associated with higher-order cognition.
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by amirmc 13y ago
"During the behavior-evaluation exercise, people with high justice sensitivity showed more activity than average participants in parts of the brain associated with higher-order cognition. Brain areas commonly linked with emotional pro
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by amirmc 13y ago
No, they're at the University of Cambridge, working with volunteers who've provided informed consent as part of an ethically approved study. An example of one of the papers is below [1]. The serotonin reduction I'm referring
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by amirmc 13y ago
I thoroughly agree with the second sentence but by putting it together with the first, it's as though you're claiming we can treat medical conditions just by changing diets (which I disagree with -- but I don't think you dese
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by amirmc 13y ago
Nowhere does it suggest that the kid is some kind of genius. Not in the original article, nor in these threads. It's clear that this was a school science project and that he was encouraged by his teachers (and his reviewers) to pursue
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by amirmc 13y ago
Are you suggesting that every high-school science project should be original, ground-breaking research?
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by amirmc 13y ago
What you've said may reduce paper but will not get rid of it . From your figures, 20% of parents do not sign up and 22% of the US does not have internet at home. These are non-trivial numbers. Also, your wife runs the lists on a v
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by amirmc 13y ago
Being gay or left-handed doesn't inherently impact your quality of life. It does if everyone else is telling you that you're abnormal (and need to be 'fixed'). That was the point of using those examples. Not being abl
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by amirmc 13y ago
Indeed. He identified an approach that seemed off the beaten path, took a systematic and consistent approach, quantified the savings and wrote it up. I'm impressed. We should be encouraging this sort of exploration and rigour in sch
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by amirmc 13y ago
If your other customers are also companies then the YC brand may have an effect (e.g. Stripe). If it's for consumers, maybe not (e.g. Airbnb).
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by amirmc 13y ago
I agree that it's probably not that black and white but a comparison with heart disease isn't a fair one. The grandparent post does make a point. If such a large proportion of the population has a 'condition' is it reall
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "Emotions seem to occur outside the brain." There isn't a clear scientific definition of what an emotion is, which makes discussion difficult. Having said that, they are not solely outside the brain. There are a number
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by amirmc 13y ago
It's good to hear stories about how FP is being used in industry and I'd like to read more. For those who have an interest in this, I recommend the Commercial Users of Functional Programming workshop ( http://cufp.org ).
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "... people are going to be even less tolerant of trying to force things on them because the experience is much more intimate." Perhaps not if that's how you 'grew up with it' (so to speak). If you're cl
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by amirmc 13y ago
A better article on survivorship bias (which also references the same war story) is: http://youarenotsosmart.com/2013/05/23/survivorship-bias/
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "... creating Open Source counterpart of Google Apps" I concur and this is the kind of thing I'm working on but we're looking at the components from the ground up. Given how the cloud works today and the coming wa
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "It's a shame not more people use it." Putting aside the legal issues, I am not ever going to introduce unnecessary expletives if I want people to take my work seriously/professionally. If I do see a license like
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "As a technology community it's up to us to come up with projects that help people in need while still capturing our imaginations." Some problems have boring (and known) solutions that are never going to 'capture
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by amirmc 13y ago
Is this new news? I thought there were already tools out there making use of this key (eg a proof of concept app to steal the whatsapp db on an android [1]) [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7380136

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