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by dlo 10y ago
Thanks for the recommendations. I love SAT solvers and have been looking for a way to get into them.
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by dlo 10y ago
Hm. Wonder how it could've leaked. I have to imagine that this incident impacts the likelihood of you sharing something like this with the YC network in the future. I would support rooting this person out and giving a stern warning. Ot
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by dlo 10y ago
You might enjoy this. I actually think this is well done. https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/index.html Obviously, it could use more work, but the kernel of something really good is there.
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by dlo 10y ago
Been thinking of doing the same. Additionally, I think game development is a compelling way to teach math and science.
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by dlo 10y ago
I'm going to expand the definition of "daily life application" from things you actually use daily to things you experience daily. These could be engaging too! For example... what are sunspots? How does the plumbing around you
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by dlo 10y ago
I think the employer that is able to accommodate a variety of different schedules, and indirectly, challenges that their employees face in their lives, will be a sought-after place to work. If an employer is trying to attract the best emplo
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by dlo 10y ago
Yeah. Agreed. In case you missed it, I retracted my statement in a follow-up reply. Some modification to my earlier statement is accurate. :-) Unfortunately, I don't have time right now to iterate on it. If you're interested, you&
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by dlo 10y ago
To actually answer your question, I do not think the next Google will have gone through an accelerator. Maybe they will take funding at some point in their lifetime, but their success will not be owed to entering a rigid assembly line for
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by dlo 10y ago
Re: "empirically untrue," my guess is about the future, for which there is no data, so I don't think it can be "empirically untrue." If you figured out a way to collect data from the future, I am very interested! FW
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by dlo 10y ago
Actually, it is not true that Instagram had not received funding at the time the story took place. I am referring more to typical pressures, some of which founders place on themselves.
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by dlo 10y ago
Sorry for the terse reply. I only have time for a short reply. There are two ways of thinking about a problem. And they both are important: 1) Why wouldn't this work? 2) How can we make it work? When you get funding, it's mostly a
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by dlo 10y ago
Instagram also comes to mind.
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by dlo 10y ago
An overlooked alternative is to: 1) Reduce your burn rate. 2) Save up enough money to live off of for a year. 3) Bootstrap your startup off your savings. I am going to make a guess that many of the strongest startups will be produced from t
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by dlo 10y ago
If these people's personal statements reflected their true intentions for what they want to do with their Stanford education after they graduated, they wouldn't have gotten in regardless of how good their grades, test scores, and
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by dlo 10y ago
Re: "It doesn't matter if the per-person amount is small. You have to multiply it by the number of people being affected (and your utility function's multiplier on their utility function)." You are stating the opposite v
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by dlo 10y ago
Good call. Thanks!
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by dlo 10y ago
Quote from the article: “We don’t think he actually works for any government or is super sophisticated,” Barysevich said.
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by dlo 10y ago
I can't imagine a single person whose life would be better in any significant way with an extra $100. Not even a homeless person would find this quantity helpful over the long-term.
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by dlo 10y ago
Here is another possibility for something to work on. We are deploying IoT at scale without much concern for security. Effectively, we are building a massive weapon for our enemies to use against us -- one that is distributed, fault-toleran
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by dlo 10y ago
There's a lot of human trafficking in Oakland, a short BART ride away from SF. With so much problem-solving ability in nearby SF, why is this still a problem? So are homelessness, childhood hunger, etc And why do we crowd around in the
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by dlo 10y ago
It's a shame to waste an elite education on people who do not serve society.
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by dlo 10y ago
I went to Stanford, and I disagree. Sure, there are exceptions, but most fellow alumni I know are very boring. For example, many live in San Francisco, work for Facebook or Google, and do little of note besides the following: - have an &quo
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by dlo 10y ago
I wish they'd just put the data online for us to look at.
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by dlo 10y ago
Have you gotten tested for sleep apnea?
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by dlo 10y ago
I don't think he's referring to "working hard." He's referring to how you behave in hard times, e.g. from the article: "It’s about having compassion even when you feel you may not have the strength for it in th
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Introduction to Computer Systems (ICS): Your Well Being(cs.cmu.edu)
1 points by dlo 10y ago|0 comments
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by dlo 10y ago
Contrary to the other advice around here, I would strongly advise NOT taking a course. I think it is a good idea at some point, but it is not the first thing you should be doing. The very first thing you should do is play! Identify a datase
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Non-religious morality(medium.com)
1 points by dlo 10y ago|0 comments
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by dlo 10y ago
It's very natural to feel a bit defensive in response to criticism of this nature, which is actually an ad hominem. I don't know that many people would have done better. I think we have to remember that even larger-than-life chara
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Seeking a birdsong researcher (or someone who knows audio signal processing)
1 points by dlo 10y ago

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