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by arcanus 10y ago
That looks like quite a bit of hype for someone who has not done too much as of late. Cracking the iphone was great, but disparaging top notch organizations (Carnege, Tesla, Vicarious, etc.) sounds more like narcissism than reality.
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by arcanus 10y ago
Between a spat of terror attacks and a generally weak economy, I'm surprised France is so low.
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Technology Conquers Stock Market(bloomberg.com)
1 points by arcanus 10y ago|0 comments
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by arcanus 10y ago
In addition to the other excellent mentions here, I get weekly ToC alerts from several pertinent journals. I scan the emails during weekly meeting.
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by arcanus 10y ago
Some of this is in the eye of the beholder. I've seen people working 10+ hours in a class and still end up with an A, but found the process mentally exhausting. Others might barely work at it and end up with an A-, and think that it wa
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by arcanus 10y ago
> The Bellevue, Wash., company’s valuation would stretch to roughly $1.2 billion from about $70 million just two years ago. How valuable is craigslist? That is a serious warchest to try to disrupt what is essentially run as a non-profit
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by arcanus 10y ago
> it starts with mentioning the controversy over the law that's going to force UTAustin to allow students to carry concealed but doesn't mention how back in those days dorms had armories, and some of those armed civilians pro
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Why There Is No Science in Your Salary(wsj.com)
1 points by arcanus 10y ago|0 comments
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by arcanus 10y ago
Saddening story. However, as an academic myself, some bits were misleading or odd: > funding regulations meant the grant couldn’t pay my salary as its lead researcher I've never, ever heard of anything like this occurring. The most
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by arcanus 10y ago
He lives in a box container and (presumably) only consumes a substance that provides all the essential calories and macro-nutrients he needs... He is consistent, I will give him that. Hard to say that is the path I would want my life to fol
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by arcanus 10y ago
What have you been reading? I loved Anabasis (not too tough for a beginner like me), trying to read Ethics.
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by arcanus 10y ago
For #1+#2-- I'm also a convert, which is sadly still not as prevalent in my field (computational science) as it should be. I always tell people: its a good 10% extra overhead you add to a project during design to be careful with regres
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by arcanus 10y ago
I would also guess they have seen a flight of any talent to jobs at other companies.
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by arcanus 10y ago
> most senior Google employees have around 50% comp in stock. Far more pervasive than that. A buddy of mine just took a typical sys-admin position at AAPL and is paid 50% stock/equity. Same with an MBA I know working at AMZN.
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by arcanus 10y ago
How hard is it to invert? e.g. given a set of points along a particular curve, how difficult is it to find the values of the 6 parameters that generated it?
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by arcanus 10y ago
The TL;DR: "A new paper says the problem is not supply. It’s that firms just don’t have enough demand for labor." Here is a press release from the folks who authored the study: http://rooseveltinstitute.org/demand_
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by arcanus 10y ago
> This is immediately self-evident if you've ever tried to teach anything complex to anyone who wasn't already a domain expert in an immediately adjacent area. I am a practising computational scientist, and I work in an interdi
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by arcanus 10y ago
> Here you could imagine the same algorithm with energy consumption as a score, a set of datacenter metrics as the screen (state) and change of metrics as actions. What you have described is easily instantiated with any numerical optimiz
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by arcanus 10y ago
The key being, "in Silicon Valley" As an analogy, Russian VC money supported FB. I don't believe that is an argument that Russia is a tech innovator.
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Lessons from Cleveland, the Silicon Valley of the second industrial revolution(economist.com)
2 points by arcanus 10y ago|0 comments
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by arcanus 10y ago
Anecdotally, I'll mention that for the two founder level pitches/seed raises I've been involved in, there was absolutely no technical diligence at all. Nor was there really any technical discussion at the YC pitch (we did not
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by arcanus 10y ago
Yep. Exactly the sort of thing I am talking about. After my phd the jobs in industry (which were much more applied) offered me 2x or 3x more than a post-doc. To say nothing of finance, where it would have been closer to 4x.
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by arcanus 10y ago
Great essay. The article touches on one interesting rub about 'post-scarcity': despite the name, even in post-scarcity economies some elements remain absolutely scarce (barring sci-fi tech outside of an obvious short term horizon,
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by arcanus 10y ago
> I could suck it up for three more years I would be very hesitant to assume you will be 'out in three'. Unless you are actively discussing graduation, 3 years might as well be \infty, in graduate school-land.
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Under Fire, Theranos CEO Stifled Bad News(wsj.com)
109 points by arcanus 10y ago|135 comments
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by arcanus 10y ago
Full disclosure: I don't work in particles but have solved Feynman integrals for class work. Renormalization is indeed 'black magic'. But I don't think it is due to our limited mathematical knowledge. In my experience in
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by arcanus 10y ago
Many start-ups have 3 founders, and then it is just 3.3% from each founder. But honestly 10% is a great deal of equity. I think the big difference is between .3% and 1.x% offers. If a company is not willing to offer an employee a point befo
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The Stark Reality Facing Austin Startups Right Now(linkedin.com)
6 points by arcanus 10y ago|4 comments
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by arcanus 10y ago
Good catch. In fact, after a quick glance, the original post appears more informative than the usatoday. I 2nd the motion.
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by arcanus 10y ago
It is a market distortion. It favors the industry that is getting government support, taking away valuable resources from other industries that would do better in a free market. Practically, HN is pro-engineering, so we likely approve of su

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