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by danblick 10y ago
You have a point in that it's hard to predict the future. On the other hand, I think freedom of the press and freedom of speech are pretty central American values. (Which doesn't mean they can't be eroded.)
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Well, I can't stand Trump, but I liked Thiel's speech. Trump's status as a political outsider (and political disruptor) seems pretty valuable to him. I haven't met anyone here in the valley who supports Trump. It's
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Question: it seems there is a lot of overlap between the technology required for space exploration and the technology needed for ICBMs. To what extent was space exploration in the Mercury-Apollo missions a way to make a huge investment in I
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Just something to think about: everyone who gives advice has their own goals. Sometimes those goals align with yours and sometimes they don't. The economics of VC make it so that they need their companies to be big successes or not s
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by danblick 10y ago
It's interesting that this is an article about the UK rather than the US. I really enjoyed a recent Econtalk episode on "Learning by doing" that talked about labor markets: http://www.econtalk.org/archives&#x2
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I think Alan Kay's "Doing with Images makes Symbols" talk from 1987 might make my list: http://www.archive.org/details/AlanKeyD1987 It's mostly about the history of HCI up to that point.
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Reminds me of "the ludic fallacy": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludic_fallacy Which points out... Casinos are sometimes a bad model for randomness in the real world. In a casino you have only "known u
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I've been enjoying the "History of the Ancient World" lecture series on Amazon streaming. (I also really enjoyed the "Decisive Battles" series by the same professor Greg Aldrete.) The article claims that China dwarf
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If you're relying on your wifi password for security, you're doing it wrong.
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Anders Ericsson (mentioned in the story) wrote an accessible book ("Peak") about his research.* He says that the route to optimal performance is "deliberate practice" and that one of the components of deliberate practice
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Newspaper promotes improbable scenario to boost readership
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I'm left with the impression this guy will win a medal or a title or something. :)
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Overview: * Demis Hassabis giving a talk at the Royal Society of Arts on Sept 29, 2016 * Examples from DeepMind * Atari games, the discovery of an innovative strategy in Breakout * Lots on AlphaGo, significance of intuition and creativity,
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My mind jumped to an image of the people in vats from The Matrix.
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I'm not sure if that is the right metric for research groups. If someone said "the startup has a promising cure for cancer in trials" would you ask if it had produced revenue yet?
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by danblick 10y ago
Starting every day with a selfie and a philosophical tweet sounds a lot like narcissistic posturing to me. I don't think they use that language in yoga circles though.
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This argument about Mars protecting us from an extinction event on Earth any time in the next 250 years seems like baloney. If that's an actual concern I would invest in something Earth-based first (e.g. underground bunkers).
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Virtual reality looks to its adolescence(techcrunch.com)
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There's also "firm-specific human capital". Some knowledge is hard to bring with you. https://www.britannica.com/topic/firm-specific-human-capital
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There's no conspiracy here. Apple is just not involved in the machine learning community in the same way as these others. Look at NIPS and you'll see activity from all of the other participants in this announcement. Apple isn&#x27
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I suppose it probably affects the total amount of litigation. If both parties know they will have to pay their own attorneys fees I'd expect less money to be spent on attorney's fees overall. That might also mean less time spent i
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In his book "Antifragile" Nassim Taleb has a long rant about "teaching birds to fly" and the fact that practice usually precedes theory rather than deriving from it. He mentions jet engines as a case where the technolog
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A related thought: for any app, there's a question ~ "How do I get the user to open the app regularly? How do I turn checking the app into a habit?" Messaging apps have a nice solution to this: they allow your friends to sum
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This reminds me of Astro Teller's recent article: http://qz.com/536483/why-its-compeltely-ridiculous-to-think-... """...we live on a planet that is perfect for us, and we seem to be unable to preven
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Do you blitzscale? - Special report on companies(economist.com)
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Why giants thrive - Special report on companies(economist.com)
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The rise of the superstars - Special report on companies(economist.com)
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Thanks, I enjoyed this. Today on the HN frontpage is, "Is Tesla telling us the truth over autopilot spat?"
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On the Criteria to Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules (1972) [pdf](cs.umd.edu)
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Oceana, SkyTruth, Google Unveil Global Fishing Watch(huffingtonpost.com)
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