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by brg 12y ago
The minimum wage hike, coupled with property tax increases for transit, bridge tolling, and lack of effective transportation options will result increased investment and growth in the Eastside of the Seattle Metro region. Bellevue is alrea
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by brg 12y ago
I like your comparison of Von Neumann and Newton. I think there are two other modern men who contributed as much, Gauss and Einstein. Each of these took Newton's work in different directions; one in mathematics and one in physics. I
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Content Selection Optimization in Data Driven Marketing(engineering.richrelevance.com)
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by brg 12y ago
I know little of the device or the company, but perhaps someone can help inform me and others. Is GoPro a single product company, with expected growth and decline curves of Iomega or Palm? Or is it divested across wearables or some other
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by brg 12y ago
It is amazing how under-valued persistence is in engineering. It is the trait that I find the most exciting to discover in any candidate.
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by brg 12y ago
The certificate does not matter to me, but completing the course is a bonus if the candidate mentions it. It demonstrates to me the ability to affect self-improvement.
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by brg 12y ago
It is simple to see the progression of the nomenclature; companies used to employ staticians, then analysts, and now data scientists. There are subtle differences that have evolved recently, today's data scientists often are employing
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by brg 12y ago
The third and fourth figures clearly show the guy-wires.
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by brg 13y ago
To believe that one can educate away mental illness is a wrong way to understand it. Mental illness is a physiological problem, not one of having an incorrect cognitive model of the world.
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by brg 13y ago
Tax write offs do not work like you seem to imply. There is no net financial gain to any charitable donation . Consider a dollar of profit. If kept on the ledger as profit, a corporation pays around fifty cents of that dollar in tax. If
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by brg 13y ago
Thank you for the informative post. It led me to the announcement of the 1993 Nobel prize, which has additional information for those interested. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/199..
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by brg 13y ago
Reading the description of today's episodes, they are revisiting the Cosmic Calendar and discussing the immense age of the universe. However this was also the first episode of Sagan's Cosmos. Is this a shot for shot remake with
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by brg 13y ago
Agree that the blog post does seem to be written by a non-native English speaker. But there is content; the post claims that First Meta was a trading site for virtual currency (e.g. gold in WoW) and not a bitcoin exchange as has been implie
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by brg 13y ago
Interesting that it is being attributed to the old and conservative. From 2002 to 2006 this kind of hysteria strongly affected the youth in the US beyond what I would consider reasonable measure. In 2004 I couldn't have a political d
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by brg 13y ago
I find this an extremely chilling story. It speaks to the erosion of personal property rights in the US. It is horrible to see the complicity of the US in the outright rent seeking on the part of foreign auto manufacturers is stunning. On
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by brg 13y ago
American's are not making it illegal, they are on both sides of this issue. Some are buying up the vehicles and exporting them, others are attempting to corrupt the right of personal property by prosecuting them.
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by brg 13y ago
Other's have pointed this out already, but there is a need for everyone to learn symbol manipulation, geometric representation, and 5 line arguments before mathematics mastered. Saying that this is not part of a complete mathematics
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by brg 13y ago
I dispute this claim. In the last two decades, the most high profile cases of police malfeasance are coming from LA and Seattle. These have nothing to do with colonialism, but with complete lack of oversight and responsibility.
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by brg 13y ago
"Rational" is an unfortunate choice of term, but it was the term the field of economics has used for quite some time. It is best to separate in your mind the idea of a rational actor and the colloquial connotations the term carri
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Facebook Rolls Out Its Version of Trending Topics(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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The evolution of memes on Facebook(facebook.com)
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by brg 13y ago
There are a number of results about a giant connected component emerging as a Erdos-Renyi random graph increases in size. A hub however will simply arise as the result of variance.
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by brg 13y ago
Crap political work is necessary in any complex cooperative human endeavor. Communication is complex, and no matter how careful at scale there will be misunderstandings, hurt feelings, and bruised egos. Resources are limited, and reaching a
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Musk's next target for Tesla: Its own 'F150' pickup(money.cnn.com)
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by brg 13y ago
Cost-benefit analysis and the role of government in personal safety laws is very interesting. One of the best TED talks is Steven Levitt on children's car seats. They do not seem to more beneficial than seat belts passed infancy. Th
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by brg 13y ago
In 1996, Barnes and Nobel was flooded with huge volumes like "Learn C in 21 Days" and "Effective Bash Programming." These books had 6-10 authors and were basically printed on newspaper, and were absolutely horrible. Th
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by brg 13y ago
If you are coming from mathematics and want to learn programming, you should pick a language first and learn to compile, run, and debug it. Then just about any introductory programming text would serve you fine. But learning computer scien
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by brg 13y ago
I thought the goal was not to fire employees, but instead to identify and address the situation. I have often been told that the goal of Welch's management style is to identify the top 10% and reward them heavily, and to identify the b
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by brg 13y ago
Chomsky was an early visionary, and his intuition was very good. I would compare him more to Freud than to Ptolemaic astronomers. He started from a single notion, and built a theory around it that was justified by anecdote. But many of th
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by brg 13y ago
Interestingly, yang wawa is also the term used to described children of Chinese and mixed ethnicities.

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