dpandya

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by dpandya 9y ago
> Looking for a SaaS idea? Ask random people in a target industry what kinds of things they do with Excel. Strongly disagree with this based on personal experience in "traditional" spaces that rely heavily on spreadsheets. Ther
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by dpandya 9y ago
One of the most concerning aspects of the Theranos investment has been the total lack of due diligence in this process. Putting aside the technology for a moment (it could be considered difficult to evaluate for most investors), due diligen
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by dpandya 9y ago
> It's sad, really. It's one of the really innovative companies, but it's not easy to sell tech ahead of its time. This glorifies failure quite a bit. One major objective of tech companies is to produce products that custo
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by dpandya 9y ago
> Starting a startup is great and you totally should. Wouldn't you ask the same set of questions that you describe for this position as well? Why is the outcome different? Arguably, you're taking so much risk as a founder that
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by dpandya 9y ago
> It may just be that we don't have the right tools at this point. The real reason is that the solution to this problem isn't valuable to most people that have the resources to pay for a solution. Most bugs aren't caused b
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by dpandya 9y ago
ZenReach ( https://www.zenreach.com/ ) has done this for quite a bit of time and has grown very fast doing it. It's unclear how Yelp's offering is differentiated from ZenReach's, but Yelp may capture a signific
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by dpandya 9y ago
> I am sure people wouldn't mind paying a certain amount per year to keep using the app without creepy apps. I really don't think this is the case. For the demographic that currently uses Snapchats (mostly 18 to 24 year-olds),
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by dpandya 9y ago
What kind of other models could potentially work for Snapchat other than advertising? I don't see any candidates from the list of other companies that serve young consumers.
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by dpandya 9y ago
This comment doesn't really apply here, because the post above suggests explicitly that the true value of Bitcoin is far lower than it is now and the market will realize this in the near-term (i.e. "the market will crash"). I
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by dpandya 9y ago
That is true if you have arbitrary knowledge that says that at some point in the future, Bitcoin is certain to crash. If you're able to associate some timeframe to the idea that with p = 1 Bitcoin will be at half the value it currently
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by dpandya 9y ago
If you're as confident on this as the comment suggests, you could purchase the appropriate futures with most of your net worth and make lots of money. If you don't want to do that, maybe it isn't quite as certain as you sugge
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by dpandya 9y ago
The details are provided in the supplementary material: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/suppl/2017/10/25/s... (mentioned by boltzmannbrain in one of the other comments)
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by dpandya 9y ago
It seems that the primary contribution of this technique is that it uses specific assumptions supported by neuroscience research in order to allow for composability of learning and better generalization. By introducing these specific assump
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by dpandya 9y ago
Google also offers "checkboxes" that measure your mouse movement to see if you're a human. Maybe those are more to your tastes?
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Statistics for Machine Learning: Resources(blog.getvincent.com)
3 points by dpandya 9y ago|0 comments
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by dpandya 9y ago
What issue are you facing with Capchas at the moment?
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by dpandya 9y ago
This is pretty damn amazing. HN is a pretty critical place most of the time but sometimes it's valuable to take a step back. The challenges associated with building a car that can drive itself are pretty insanely difficult (even someth
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by dpandya 9y ago
Success isn't really measured by the lack of negative outcomes but more like the sum of all outcomes, both negative and positive. If we were to look at only the lack of negative outcomes, a "company" that has 14 users that li
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Show HN: Empathize – manage user conversations easily(getempathize.com)
1 points by dpandya 9y ago|5 comments
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by dpandya 9y ago
> We invested all of our seed funding in developing a great product. In doing so, our feature list expanded, but our actual revenue growth never changed in a meaningful way to support that development. I think the key distinction to make