bkanber

35 ms·

331.
by bkanber 9y ago
Modern guidelines for valuing a tech company in an M&A: - The technology asset is worth $3-5M, no matter what it is. - Higher AWS bill = better product. - EBITDA is not important, you can ignore that. - What's the QoQ revenue growt
332.
by bkanber 9y ago
If you raise $40M -- and in most cases far less than that -- you most likely no longer control your board of directors. Most investors-turned-board-members will have veto rights as well. Let's say you raise $40M and then a year later g
333.
by bkanber 9y ago
I don't think I am, but I could be wrong (as always). Specifically I'm talking about yield to maturity which is one kind of return calculation (just like mean is one type of average calculation). Total return can only be calculate
334.
by bkanber 9y ago
I looked at the prices again, you're right that yields on the primary were positive. Yield on the secondary however was -1.7% in April 2016, for instance. I'll update my post above to specify losses were for the secondary market.
335.
by bkanber 9y ago
If you don't have a portfolio yet, consider building a balanced diverse portfolio (ie figure out your risk tolerance and buy funds in that proportion) with these bonds as a component, rather than building a portfolio with only one secu
336.
by bkanber 9y ago
I haven't been in the auto industry for a number of years, but the following is my educated impression. On most aspects (drivetrain, body, safety, etc), tech will be comparable. Where Tesla tech wins is in battery technology (good chan
337.
by bkanber 9y ago
Bonds are a healthy part of a diversified portfolio. There of course is risk to bonds. The bond market is less volatile than the stock market, which is what draws most investors to them. In poor market years bonds can yield more than equity
338.
by bkanber 9y ago
Seems to be because all the market data hasn't loaded yet. If you look above it should say "Loading data" under one of the categories in the text.
339.
by bkanber 9y ago
> basic web site ... basic web site with a hundred thousand communities, gigabytes of images uploaded daily, millions of votes a day, 1.5 billion pageviews a month... Also, reddit is a business, not just a website. They don't only h
340.
by bkanber 9y ago
> You're generally not in any sort of scalable setup, no high availability, you're on a shared box with other customers, you are susceptible to IO constraints on the shared disks, etc. As you describe acceptable use-case for 99
341.
by bkanber 9y ago
For me the struggle of figuring it out from the very basics was the best part. It's ok to have 10 or 20 or 50 failed launch attempts in the beginning. You're learning how to go to space !
342.
by bkanber 9y ago
It's a journalistic disclosure. Ars' parent company has a relationship with the subject of the article, and the author disclosed that relationship.
343.
by bkanber 9y ago
Definitely not clear from the article alone. You can use more than one hash algorithm to reduce the chance of collisions. You set the values in the bit array for both hashes, and then you check both again. Practical, contrived example: the
344.
by bkanber 9y ago
> Looks like a pretty simple site If you ignore the fact that it's actually a full e-commerce platform, and ignore the machine vision categorization ("AI") and augmented reality aspects to their product, you also have to r
345.
by bkanber 9y ago
> Yeah, like all those soaps and mini-shampoo bottles we steal from hotels and intend to "use" someday, too. No -- you ship the gel packs back to Blue Apron and they reuse them. Reuse >> recycling, BTW. I just did a back
346.
by bkanber 9y ago
It's not that obvious and not so much a loophole. Shipping is more efficient than you give credit for (eg shipping recyclables from UK to China is still net-beneficial as opposed to landfilling [0]), and most likely recycling back to t
347.
by bkanber 9y ago
No. It is still better to recycle. While there is an obvious carbon footprint when shipping, don't forget that your box is on a truck with many other boxes. Inside your single returned box are 8-10 completely reusable gel packs from th
348.
by bkanber 9y ago
You can ship the boxes, gel packs, and foil bag back to them for recycling. They give you a free shipping label. https://support.blueapron.com/hc/en-us/articles/202510818-Ho...
349.
by bkanber 9y ago
I have a slightly older article series on Machine Learning in Javascript, teaching algorithms assuming only JS knowledge: https://www.burakkanber.com/tag/ml-in-js/
350.
by bkanber 9y ago
Songwriting can be taught, yes. In most music courses you start by analyzing the Bach Chorales , which (along with some Gregorian work from the middle ages) is what really kicked off contemporary music composition. By analyzing the Choral
351.
by bkanber 9y ago
If you're a sedentary person, and you were to drink 3 of those protein shakes per day you'd end up with 2x your recommended protein intake and only but only 1/2 your recommended calorie intake. That's not a balanced repl
352.
by bkanber 9y ago
Only about 25% of your daily calorie intake should be from protein. 60g a day for a 160lb sedentary person. Those high-protein shakes are usually around 60% protein. It is possible to consume too much protein. So I say that it's a supp
353.
by bkanber 9y ago
If it has a large amount of protein, it's not an actual meal replacement -- it's a supplement.
354.
by bkanber 9y ago
From the wikipedia entry for "blockchain" [0] > Blockchains are "an open, distributed ledger that can record transactions between two parties efficiently and in a verifiable and permanent way. The ledger itself can also be
355.
by bkanber 9y ago
> However, boring through rock is the most expensive way to connect 2 places. For now. I think that's the whole point of this company. Reduce cost and risk of drilling just like SpaceX's goal is to reduce cost and risk of spa
356.
by bkanber 10y ago
Pretty difficult to figure out what this is, but I think I've got it. Adobe Sensei is a cloud-based ML API (like IBM's Watson) that does various ML things (like image editing and content analysis). This is a UI around that API. Th
357.
by bkanber 10y ago
Nuclear power is only 20% of US energy production. Nuclear waste is a political problem, not a scientific or engineering one. We're not allowed to recycle it the way we want. Blame President Carter. Coal power puts more radiation into
358.
by bkanber 10y ago
On $35k, the price of a Tesla, which is what prompted that xkcd link
359.
by bkanber 10y ago
> Driving electric cars instead of hybrids in areas where the electricity is primarily derived from unclean sources is not better than hybrids for the environment. As of two years ago the only country where that was the case was India. R
360.
by bkanber 10y ago
> Unclean power plants are still vastly more efficient than the most efficient internal combustion engines. I'm an automotive engineer specializing in hybrid vehicle powertrains. Published and everything. As of two years ago the onl

More ›