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by diziet 13y ago
What's really cool is that the two people got funding for their research on Microryza, a YC company: https://www.microryza.com/projects/can-anle138b-delay-the-on...
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The Prime Facts: From Euclid to AKS(scottaaronson.com)
2 points by diziet 13y ago|0 comments
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by diziet 13y ago
Too bad this is limited to ships that have renderings of them (such as all the EVE online ships that dominate the scale). I'd love to see some of Iain Bank's Culture GSVs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_typ
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by diziet 13y ago
I love the fact that they generate the mesh for users that have their own 3d printers for free.
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by diziet 13y ago
A fair question to ask would be how much revenue is coming from the subscriptions vs sales of the product, and how many credits per user are unredeemed?
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Quantum Computing for High School Students (2002)(scottaaronson.com)
6 points by diziet 13y ago|0 comments
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by diziet 13y ago
Instagram gets consistently more downloads and happier users than all of Google's products. IE, take a look at the review history on youtube: https://sensortower.com/ios/us/google-inc/app/youtube&#x2
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Andromeda–Milky Way collision(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by diziet 13y ago|0 comments
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by diziet 13y ago
The most interesting feature is Kindle Mayday. It connects you with a support technician -- live. I wonder how that will work out. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57604502-93/amazon-adds-may...
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by diziet 13y ago
Plants vs. Zombies 2 on iOS had quite a successful launch: https://sensortower.com/ios/us/popcap/app/plants-vs-zombies-...
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by diziet 13y ago
How does early stage jump from 5.8 to 68.8% when going from 10 to 15 years? It seems there is some small sampling issues going on there. Anyway, you can take a certain time frame, slice the start/end dates to match when certain compani
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by diziet 13y ago
Hmm -- the model did not seem to spot something a simple linear regression did.
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Great Pacific garbage patch(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by diziet 13y ago|1 comments
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by diziet 13y ago
Reduce search by stats flexibility of the AH. Allow only one item per account. Make custom games with custom names available and browsable. Make chat channels relevant by placing everyone in one and having it take a lot of the screen estate
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by diziet 13y ago
I'd met Seth rock climbing at Dogpatch Boulders in SF. There are a lot of startup founders and people working at startups that go rock climbing -- make sure to check it out.
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Rovio Ownership Structure(arcticstartup.com)
3 points by diziet 13y ago|0 comments
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by diziet 13y ago
Not having robots.txt just results in Google defaulting to their reasonable crawl settings. For most sites, a hastily configured robots.txt usually results in problems rather than SEO help. The indexed pages are also missing most of the &#x
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by diziet 13y ago
Free & not limited by file size / total stored space seems to be the big point.
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by diziet 13y ago
This whole essay is from a pre-incubator era. Going through YC/Angelpad, etc and having the benefit of the structure and demo day dynamics changes the early part of the investor/founder dynamics greatly, where things aren't &
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Calculating Optimal Betting Strategy (jumptrading.com)
3 points by diziet 13y ago|0 comments
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by diziet 13y ago
As another free possibility, try http://octopress.org , though this solution has it's own merits.
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D&D Tile Map Generation(davesmapper.com)
9 points by diziet 13y ago|0 comments
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Grover's algorithm(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by diziet 13y ago|0 comments
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by diziet 13y ago
In the case of LinkedIn, the company is both a network effect & data company.
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by diziet 13y ago
If we were to think about the distribution of companies and opportunities, I would think that the power law distribution would be most appropriate. Being #11 when even #2 and #3 just don't match up isn't exactly something to be pr
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by diziet 13y ago
Do authors really collaborate as much as developers do? Wikipedia is an example of people collaborating on writing something, but the subject matter is quite different from the kinds of writing that gets done.
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by diziet 13y ago
You can potentially install adblock and never see said ad (or any other ad) unless you need to disable adblock. It's a case of simple and effective retargetting.
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Homo economicus(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by diziet 13y ago|0 comments
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Should You Make Your iOS App Free or Paid?(blog.sensortower.com)
2 points by diziet 13y ago|0 comments
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by diziet 13y ago
This seems to break browser zoom, so while it is a neat feature, it is not worth having at the cost of accessibility.

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