artnep

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by artnep 11y ago
Check out Theranos on Glassdoor starting on page 4. The insider scoop seems to be that it's a horror show.
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by artnep 11y ago
The more serious problem with these studies is that the definition of sexual assault is often unclear and constantly changing. What's classified as sexual assault by some definitions would be considered by others to be "boys being
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by artnep 11y ago
Certainly that's the case in crowded industries like personal electronics manufacturing, but there's plenty of room for companies with new technologies or new markets (e.g. DJI with drones or Magic Leap with VR Tech)
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by artnep 11y ago
I'm surprised by the dearth of companies with manufactured products, especially since this is an international list. All I see are the 6 listed as "hardware" + SpaceX. Edit: plus Trendy and Theranos and probably a few more fr
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by artnep 11y ago
Yes, but I also worry about a bunch of theorists writing substandard code that is unreadable and unmaintainable.
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by artnep 11y ago
It's also used heavily within Google. I think that a lot of companies used to have internal tools like IPython, but now IPython/Jupyter has surpassed them all. Hooray for OSS.
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by artnep 11y ago
Can anyone comment on current pros and cons of Havok vs PhysX (which was open-sourced recently by NVIDIA)?
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by artnep 11y ago
I think the majority of men in my demographic like to do it. And in my experience, about half of the girls are into it, the other half are indifferent.
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by artnep 11y ago
I find American porn to be crude and artificial. Russian porn is much better; it just shows attractive people having sex with each other and enjoying it. Wonder what that says about our respective cultures.
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by artnep 11y ago
The first myth addressed by makelovenotporn.com (mentioned in the article) regards "facials". I wonder how much men's desire to do this comes from watching porn. Any grecian urns with men "dropping loads"?
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by artnep 11y ago
Google's stock doesn't seem to be reacting too badly to the ad-blocking developments, so maybe investors know something OP doesn't.
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by artnep 11y ago
Peter Thiel in Zero to One: "Of the six people who started PayPal, four had built bombs in high school"
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by artnep 11y ago
Interesting point regarding gender ratios. It's a good thing prostitution is legal and widespread in Germany.
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by artnep 11y ago
Uber and other companies (including Google) have been hiring a lot of robotics faculty as well as newly-minted PhDs. This is a good thing for robotics research. There's generally a shortage of tenure-track jobs relative to the number o
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by artnep 11y ago
Something's gotta go to free up some cash for Intel's $300M diversity initiative.
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by artnep 11y ago
I've only read the abstract, but it looks like the actual effect isn't huge. People with 10 hospitalizations scored lower by .37 SD = 6 iq points.
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by artnep 11y ago
True, but whether someone self-identifies as Jewish depends on exactly how you ask him. To compare the Jewish representation in the US population, college X, and college Y, it's important that the same definition was used. Feynman (men
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by artnep 11y ago
I'm skeptical of the Jewish statistics, which are allegedly based on Hillel documents. Is Harvard really 25% Jewish? Or is that the fraction of domestic students who have some (possibly small) Jewish ancestry? And what's the sourc
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by artnep 11y ago
Julia is an extremely ambitious project -- more so than most other languages being developed now, due to the number of things they're trying to do, and the novelty of Julia relative to previous projects. I used Julia for a couple of to
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by artnep 11y ago
I think the idea is that the lower n-1 rows each have height (n-1)ε (by spreading them out horizontally), and at the top there's a big triangle with side length 1+(n-1)ε
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by artnep 11y ago
Not surprising to me. I've participated in admissions committees (for a graduate program) and hiring committees (for new faculty) at a top US STEM program, and women do get a significant boost. This preference is usually explicit -- to