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by bwb 5y ago
Books, implementing, back to books, talking to people in the industry at bars, implementing, repeat.
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by bwb 5y ago
I don't think so. None of the pieces are there, Russia has no money and it's brainpower is leaving. The rest of the world is doing just fine and in a space race themselves.
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by bwb 5y ago
Sorry, I am not quite sure what the problem is? I think Wikipedia is great from my day to usage. Can you point me to specific examples where the output is bad due to this? I would like to see the problem.
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by bwb 5y ago
This might be helpful, Steven Pinker recommended the best books on rationality -> https://shepherd.com/best-books/rationality i am working on more around critical thinking... I think specifically his rec for this bo
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by bwb 5y ago
Thanks, I'll check it out!
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by bwb 5y ago
Awesome thanks! I am trying now to bring genres and other data in, my hope being that if you are on the WW2 page you can filter it to show only history, or only historical fiction, or even science fiction. And, I would like to do similar on
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by bwb 5y ago
Thank you, that is awesome to hear :) Ya, I worked really hard in the early days to get a ton of lists and now I've built out a small PT team that helps me contact authors and shepherd them through the publishing process. We are adding
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by bwb 5y ago
Yep, I am going to need to start by using BISAC or THEMA which are a pretty standardized format used in the industry. I am testing both now to figure out which I want to use, or if I could use a combo (if that his helpful). BISAC has 1 to 5
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by bwb 5y ago
I am working on this :)! Shepherd.com, only 10 months old but i have a lot more formats planned as we get further along! I use NLP on the backend to tie books to Wikipedia topics and working to improve that and bring in genre filters/p
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by bwb 5y ago
I am trying to fix this with book browsing online, try shepherd.com and let me know (ben@shepherd.com). I go to authors and ask them to share 5 books around a topic/them they are passionate experts in, and then i try to connect it in d
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by bwb 5y ago
I would love this, especially id airbnbs started stocking nice monitors :)
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by bwb 5y ago
I use a chrome extension to auto accept everything. They are incredibly annoying. I wish i could do that on my phone. I do not know any non techy who gives them more than 1 second of thought. They annoy everyone without doing anything good.
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by bwb 5y ago
Yep here are a few recommendations :) Sarah Marie Jette has a list here around books for siblings and scientists ( https://shepherd.com/best-books/for-siblings-and-scientists ) and she recommends "The Care and Feedi
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by bwb 5y ago
I am working on a project aimed at reinventing book discovery online... my goal is to recreate the feeling of walking around a physical bookstore (but reimagined for the online world). It is called https://shepherd.com/ I l
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by bwb 5y ago
That isn't true, i lived in the old city and my neighbors and i go to the central market (plus plenty of markets for other neighborhoods). I get grocery delivery for some items but we go to central once or twice a week.
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by bwb 5y ago
Yep, super easy to sell, I've sold/bought at least 20 premium domains, just like anything with a short legal contract, one page, and then using escrow.com to facilitate the hand over.
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by bwb 5y ago
I am working on one that is aimed at book discovery by recreating the feeling of walking around a physical bookstore (but reimagined for the online world). It is called https://shepherd.com/ I launched about 9 months ago we
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by bwb 5y ago
Yep, I am an entrepreneur and work a ton in front of the computer, I get a lot of joy from that but if I let it pull me in too much I get burned out. My biggest sources of happiness are the following... (email in profile if you want any det
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by bwb 5y ago
Yep, in Boulder/Denver in CO as new family with our first kid. I've also lived in Florida, DC, and AR. American society just isn't built to bump into people, lots of driving and overall people favor their own backyard with hu
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by bwb 5y ago
Ya, it isn't overnight, it is a multi generational process. I think that most progress in society is made through the death of the previous generation and new ideas being more accepted. It is slow but crunches on over the bones of the
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by bwb 5y ago
You are describing a symptom not a problem. If you give people time and space to think, for their kids not to be stuck in poverty cycles, and for them to learn that Fox news is fear based propaganda this is how things get fixed. All America
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by bwb 5y ago
This quote nails on the head what is wrong with the USA "Because I'm wealthy". Being wealthy at the cost of providing a good society for everyone is what is wrong with America. We could have a society where people have a safe
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by bwb 5y ago
My family and I left at the end of 2019. I left for a number of reasons, but the biggest is I don't want my son to not have a life, and instead just have work and high stress. And, even if he won the work lottery and ends up at a tech
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by bwb 5y ago
I don't get it... why not raise minimum wages to reflect local cost of living? IE, why tax all of us instead of the businesses not paying enough for their employees?
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by bwb 5y ago
ditto, super interested in what can be done with this one :)
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by bwb 5y ago
As a solo operation you can start a small contracting firm specifically aimed at the needs of the 3 letter groups. Build connections, and slowly increase your rate. If you are very very good. There are online examples of people also doing t
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by bwb 5y ago
1. Start a successful business. 2. Work at a FANG and spend 10+ years working up the ladder. 3. DOD contracts as an independent contractor doing insane things.
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by bwb 5y ago
Hi all, This is my end of the year list for top books discussed on Hacker News for 2021. I thought it would be fun to share :) We also have a weekly email if you want to get a weekly email with the top 10 books discussed that week: http:&#
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Show HN: Books Discussed on HN for 2021(hackernewsbooks.com)
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by bwb 5y ago
Ya! That would be pretty sweet as well, I figure someone has an app like this for the apple watch maybe? I'd love one that is e-ink or something super low energy if it is just doing a countdown to death. I love watches that don't

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