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by davi 16y ago
And when that's still $1.3 billion dollars, you know you have built a very big company.
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FiveThirtyEight: how the pollsters faired(fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by davi 16y ago
If you can't make your friends and family realize there's a good chance they'll lose all their money by investing in you, and the amount of money they'd be investing is a nontrivial fraction of their assets, you can't ethically take their m
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by davi 16y ago
on standardized platforms This would be horrifying. Maybe it could work in some fields, but not in mine (neuroscience). What, I'm going to use Java v.<whatever> on Ubuntu v.<whatever> because a funding agency tells me I ha
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by davi 16y ago
‘Where’ and ‘what’ in the whisker sensorimotor system http://www.weizmann.ac.il/neurobiology/labs/ahissar/new_page...
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by davi 16y ago
Interesting that HN now has enough reach that mainstream media mine it for new stories. From the transcript -- Andrew: How about that “Inc.” article? There was an article in “Inc.” which announced Manpacks, and then it asked other entrepren
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by davi 16y ago
Tell us where to sign up to be notified of beta.
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Error in statistical tests of error in statistical tests(biomedcentral.com)
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by davi 16y ago
I'm curious about how you evaluate prospective algorithm changes. Do you roll out a change you think should work and then monitor, or do you have a corpus of e.g. flame wars you test against?
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Crick's letters: Rivalry among DNA sleuths comes alive(nytimes.com)
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by davi 16y ago
Reminds me of the opening to Anna Karenina: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
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by davi 16y ago
Not that I really know either, but I found this useful: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/09/02/new-trends-in-startup-in... “You owe me $20, with interest. Don’t worry about paying me back right now. Instead, next time you raise money or sell
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by davi 16y ago
Previous good discussion on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1603374
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TED founder R.S. Wurman(nytimes.com)
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by davi 16y ago
> "These higher skills have become commodities, said Catherine L. Mann, a global finance professor at the Brandeis University International Business School who studies the outsourcing of jobs. The programming language “C++ is now an int
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The Boss Is Robotic, and Rolling Up Behind You(nytimes.com)
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$100 kit lets you do electrophysiology on backyard bugs(brainwindows.wordpress.com)
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by davi 16y ago
Thanks. A few things caught my attention which haven't been discussed yet in this thread: that was some of the nicest work I ever did -- it's interesting how destructive processes can also produce great work. (This is not to say that the
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by davi 16y ago
via http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/16/apple-hires-mobile-... , which has a little bit of value-add
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Apple hires Near Field Communication expert as mobile commerce product manager(nearfieldcommunicationsworld.com)
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by davi 16y ago
No. These synapses: http://synapses.clm.utexas.edu/anatomy/chemical/asymh.htm EEG sensors measure large aggregates of activity.
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by davi 16y ago
This touches on my area of research. The 'pyramid' idea of brain function is essentially a straw man to jazz up the Science Daily article. It's been known for a long time (a century) that recurrent loops occur throughout the brain. The myst
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by davi 16y ago
The only thing that can kill facebook is failure to innovate and evolve with the tastes of its users. This would open the door to a competitor to become the new 'cool place to be'. It will probably take 5-10 years to find out if this is goi
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by davi 16y ago
Seems like increasingly you're an 'ecosystem manager' -- of HN, and of the broadening pool of YC-funded startups.
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by davi 16y ago
wow too bad it tanked so quickly with spammer types very cool and thought provoking. BTW, I was "foo". :) Feature request: When I log out & come back to a room, the conversation should still be there. edit: interesting, someone just do
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by davi 16y ago
Can the protocol be reverse engineered? I guess regardless it is dependent on connecting to some central switching service; but maybe there could be an alternative, open central service someday. Relatedly, if Skype changes the protocol, doe
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by davi 16y ago
Yes, I'd be interested in seeing higher mag pictures if they become available. An email to <any address>@<the domain in my HN profile> will reach me.
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by davi 16y ago
Thanks for inquiring and relaying the response you got. Here is an example of the scale I'm interested in: http://synapses.clm.utexas.edu/atlas/1_6_2.stm Things that look like the newtechnology.html's figs 4 & 5 can look very bad at h
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by davi 16y ago
last I heard the results looked excellent under a microscope Do you have a reference to some images I could look at?
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by davi 16y ago
I do electron microscopy on nervous tissue. I know what it takes to get good brain preservation at the fine scale, at the level of synaptic connectivity. I know how small problems in fixation and embedding can completely trash the anatomy a

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