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by amit_m 11y ago
"QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter" by Richard Feynman: http://www.amazon.com/QED-Strange-Theory-Light-Matter/dp/069... I read this book in high-school and learned about as much as I did in 4 u
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by amit_m 11y ago
What are people actually using these days for analytics? What is missing? (i.e. what would the dream startup do for you?) There's a lot of hype around certain technologies, and I suspect it does not reflect reality. I've used hado
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by amit_m 11y ago
It's not clear that anyone has the legal means to stop you from hosting your friends for free. Besides, couch surfers typically stay in the same house as the current resident, and he/she has to maintain good relations with the nei
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by amit_m 11y ago
Would you be able to tell apart a pizza from a top italian restaurant and a microwaved instant pizza? The differences between top-grade sushi and bad sushi are just as obvious, you really don't need to be an expert. By the way, in japa
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by amit_m 11y ago
Wow, that mission statement is so ambitious it made me cringe. Reality check: hardware startups are struggling to ship very simple products after obtaining >$1m funding. Choosing just one product for color/material customization is
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by amit_m 11y ago
tl;dr
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by amit_m 11y ago
That's engineering, not physics. There is a lot of chemistry research that goes into battery technology, but AFAIK Tesla's batteries use tried-and-proven lithium ion tech. Also, he dropped out of his Ph.D. on the first week. So it
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by amit_m 11y ago
Bakoma TeX is a great commercial WYSIWYG editor for latex.
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by amit_m 12y ago
That criticism was spot-on, and dropbox actually addressed those issues.
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by amit_m 12y ago
ReverseFunder: http://blog.oxify.co/2014/10/09/our-mission-make-ideas-come-...
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by amit_m 12y ago
It's easy being smart with billions of dollars, since you have access to the best financial advisors in the world.
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by amit_m 12y ago
That's a pretty lame rationalization. My mom was a victim of some adware and she had no idea. She thought she was seeing google ads or something and only asked me for help because a bunch of stuff stopped working. Just because somethin
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by amit_m 12y ago
Does ARC work like reference counting in python? (i.e. a reference count is stored for every object)
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by amit_m 12y ago
Not just a small town thing. I was really surprised to see plain (unlocked, unguarded) cabinets for storing tourist backpacks at the Tsukiji fish market. This is an extremely busy place in Tokyo, yet it is common to leave your backpack ther
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by amit_m 12y ago
Cython already compiles to C and is relatively mature. In my opinion these hacks will always be specialty tools. What the world really needs is more languages that are both expressive and run pretty fast. e.g. Julia.
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by amit_m 12y ago
Cool hack, but an on/off switch is quite limited in this context. There's a startup (sensibo.com) that's building a full HW/SW solution for controlling and monitoring IR-operated air conditioners. (full disclosure: I&#x2
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by amit_m 12y ago
Sorry for being blunt, but this is an MBA-style slideshow with a lot of talk about abstract phases and very little substance. I feel that even for hardware entrepreneurs starting out in the same space this lecture has close to zero takeaway
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by amit_m 12y ago
What library/API did you use for OCR?
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by amit_m 12y ago
Video summary of the Iron Dome system: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-iron-dome-works-video-201... The only part which sounds odd is the "human factor" claim near the end. AFAIK the system is fully autonomous
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Startup gives the internet control of their office A/C. Sadism ensues.(sensibo.com)
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by amit_m 12y ago
With all the international travel and global trade of this day and age, it amazes me how difficult it is to get a decent espresso in the US, even in major cities. Beer OTOH has been completely revolutionised in recent years.
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by amit_m 12y ago
Can you share some numbers? e.g. approximate unique visitors and revenues per month per page.
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by amit_m 12y ago
Just my experience. The systems you are referring to are most-likely residential heating systems, and not full-blown HVAC system that are based on a heat pump. Asia: I have traveled for months in China, India and Japan and don't recall
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by amit_m 12y ago
This indiegogo campaign launched 2 days ago is doing a "Nest for split A/Cs": http://igg.me/at/sensibo/x Hopefully they can help the rest of the world become more energy efficient. Thermostats are n
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by amit_m 12y ago
Indeed, anyone who can seriously grok all the material in the entire series will gain a very deep and wide understanding of theoretical physics that very few people possess.
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by amit_m 12y ago
The bigger picture is that CPython's core team simply does not care too much about performance. Performance has never been a fundamental requirement, but merely an afterthought. The biggest reminder of this was Python 3, which for me w
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by amit_m 12y ago
I was hoping for a cheaper board. Even if the Raspberry Pi foundation were to just take the old model A and drop the analog I/O ports and LED lights - with their economies of scale and the natural decrease in chip prices, I'm gues
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by amit_m 12y ago
My personal experience is that the there is something about food in the US that really pushes you towards obesity. I recently spent 2 months in the US (conference + work + road trip). It was relatively sedentary, but probably no more than m
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by amit_m 12y ago
A Big Mac weighs 215g but has only 25g of protein. Add the french fries and coke and you basically have a whole bunch of carbs and fat. Even their ice creams don't contain much protein. A large McFlurry with Oreo's is 381g but has
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by amit_m 13y ago
Specific advice: 1) Housing tends to be the biggest expense. So try to share an apartment with flat mates until you're sick of it, or even stay at your parents place for a few years (if that's possible). 2) If you need a car, buy

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