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by davi 17y ago
he suggested men might have a higher variance in their distribution, meaning more men in the tails at both sides That's my understanding as well. A professor I respect a lot presented his analysis of Summers' argument in a lecture I went
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Graph of connections to Max Baucus (lynchpin of healthcare reform)(assets.sunlightfoundation.com)
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Yes, I regret the choice of words. Harvard is a federation of many nearly autonomous entities. The Business School cannot tell the Medical School what to do, etc. By 'fat cats' I meant power centers who can't be commanded to downsize -- a
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Small subset, fun for author of article to profile. The one person I know personally who protested was concerned that the lowest paid, most vulnerable workers (janitors, contract security guards, etc.) were the first to feel the bite, ahea
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Most interesting was the idea of conservatism as an asset for some classes of enterprise: “Harvard, institutionally, never had change when I first came here,” the law professor Alan Dershowitz told me. “It was like the old baseball teams; y
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by davi 17y ago
The Harvard brand provokes a lot of resentment, and writers of articles like this one tap into that resentment by going on about these luxuries. And maybe that's how it is for undergraduate athletes, or business school students, but let me
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Anybody know how many 'hot-spots' like this would be predicted due to clustering at levels predicted by chance? "The only way to determine whether a cluster is a "real" cluster or just a "chance" cluster is to do a full scale epidemiologica
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Not sci-fi, for flies at least: Genetics of life history in Drosophila melanogaster. II. Exploratory selection experiments. Genetics. 1981 Jan;97(1):187-96. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6790341?ordinalpos=139&#3... ...and a long l
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FTA: 'From the get go, the product was not task oriented (as in “I want to upload some pictures and do a blog post about it”), but very object-oriented (an hierarchy of folders, with security, objects, drag-and-drop, etc.).' This clicked fo
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Good link, thanks. I think this change of the user base is backing up ideas and trends like the freemium business model. -- So what are you saying the link is between Wesch's talk and freemium?
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The main off-the-cuff response I have is that the tail will wag the dog. The deep conversations the presenter seeks for the future will be had by a small subset of youtubers/netizens etc. But the neat thing is that those conversations wil
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by davi 17y ago
Agree. Also: beware sample bias. For every hero the public worships, there may be 1000 people who love what they do, make tremendous sacrifices, and remain completely anonymous. The good news is, they love what they do.
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excellent graphic linked in the article: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/image/79352
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I've been thinking about this a little bit lately, with all the hoopla around the 40th anniversary. The moon landing, in the public mind, was like Lewis & Clark -- it was exploration, trail-blazing. But the point was that once the tr
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by davi 17y ago
I know the guideline is for comments. I'm not interpreting it legalistically, I'm interpreting its intent: to shape the culture of the site.
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"Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation." ( http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ) + "Hey. My name is Ariel and I'm a total whore...for Microsoft that is!" = flag
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Right on. Addendum: this marketing is facilitated by the fact that the culture is coming to appreciate that geekiness can equal power.
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add'l info: http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/07/14/14greenwire-exxon-si... http://syntheticgenomics.com/what/renewablefuels.html
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$600 million into Craig Venter's oil-producing algae(reuters.com)
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Sure, this is the approach I try to take. But there are chaff articles that get more attention than I (personally, yes it's subjective) think they deserve, because the title is flashier than it could/should be. In an ideal world, this woul
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HN is an experiment. As a rule, a community site that becomes popular will decline in quality. Our hypothesis is that this is not inevitable—that by making a conscious effort to resist decline, we can keep it from happening. http://ycomb
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If you know the goods at a certain pawnshop are stolen, but they have the best deals in town, do you buy stuff there? If you think TechCrunch is wrong in disseminating this information, then you shouldn't click through to their articles. D
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"Users System API: There is no fault information allowed. Your account may be terminated anytime with a fault information." Fails to inspire confidence, for several reasons. Generally, clicking around, lots of loose ends & typos. Also
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by davi 17y ago
Dreams of grandeur corrupt the best of men. Give him a link to this page, it states your concerns very clearly. If he doesn't get it, don't continue with him.
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More info on graphene (1 atom thick sheets of carbon)(onnes.ph.man.ac.uk)
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Much better: the quoted scientist's site, with downloadable pdfs of his work: http://onnes.ph.man.ac.uk/nano/ -- I just submitted the link above, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=704664 .
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In the caloric restriction experiments, the nutritional density of the food the animals are fed is almost always increased. Fewer calories, same levels of protein, nutrients, etc. It's not just a matter of 'less'. From what I've read, hum
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Agreed. I stopped reading when the author got into a snit because "Control animals were fed 20% more than their average daily intake". It seems clear from context that that was to allow the animals to eat as much as they wanted, the anima
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Looks like a system based on electrostatic lenses rather than the electromagnetic lenses commonly used in TEM today. Background: http://books.google.com/books?id=y0FF19lud5YC&pg=PA162&#...
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It depends on the context. In my context, we are building something new, that has never existed before, and we don't know the design we are going to converge on. Of course we have some reasonable ideas that we want to try out. But for us

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