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by eas 7y ago
Re good dual boilers at the moment, for ~analog I would check out ECM Synchronika with flow control. For ~digital, Decent DE1. And Niche Zero for grinder.
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by eas 11y ago
Opera, called Text Wrap under settings. Works great.
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The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts(wsj.com)
473 points by eas 11y ago|180 comments
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by eas 13y ago
Manulife Asset Management - Boston, MA (full-time) Looking for an Associate Portfolio Analyst to do interesting data science-y things related to asset management -- from the firm-level ($250B) down to the security-level, and everything in-b
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A game with a windfall for a knowing few(boston.com)
200 points by eas 15y ago|36 comments
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Start-Ups Drawn to SF's Design Talent, Amenities and Rents Create a Boomlet(online.wsj.com)
6 points by eas 16y ago|0 comments
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by eas 16y ago
http://www.biadvisors.com sells this behavioral analysis of investor calls as a service.
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Flickr Geo Data Shows Tourists, Locals Favorite Places to Take Pictures in NYC(blogs.wsj.com)
3 points by eas 16y ago|0 comments
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by eas 17y ago
http://www.openculture.com/2007/07/freeonlinecourses.html
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by eas 17y ago
Here is another free book, which teaches statistics through R: Introduction to Statistical Thought http://www.math.umass.edu/~lavine/Book/book.html I can also recommend the Statistical Aspects of Data Mining lectures by David Mease (on Go
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by eas 17y ago
Scrivener (for the Mac) is one you might try. PersonalBrain (multi-platform) might also do the trick.
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by eas 17y ago
Someone please tell me "there's an app for that" on current retail hardware: Now, Dr. Haritaoglu has come up with a wireless solution to these translation blues: a cellphone or palmtop containing a color digital camera that takes a snapsho
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Augmented Reality App for Translating Chinese Characters [2002](nytimes.com)
2 points by eas 17y ago|2 comments
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by eas 17y ago
> What good is that when show up in Japan and can't read any of the signs around you? Anyone have an idea of how difficult it would be to do an augmented reality iPhone app that would translate these signs, etc., on the fly for you? If
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by eas 17y ago
A very interesting and well-done course on many of the vagaries of US copyright law from MIT OCW (video lectures) that might be relevant to the discussion: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Compute... Especially lecture
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by eas 19y ago
I've always wondered why we really haven't seen more franchising of U.S. schools among the higher-tiers (beyond ITT Tech, U of Phoenix, etc.). And what's the real reason we see NYU-Qatar but not NYU-Los Angeles? For example, is it the risk
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by eas 19y ago
Agreed. For good or ill, much of the (monetary) value of education is from what others think of it. You are totally right that if someone has a specific job like that mind, where the education is more a filtering and networking service than
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by eas 19y ago
Thanks for pointing that out to me, I should have been clearer in my analysis. I've added an update to the bottom, and hopefully that helps: "...also please note that I am talking about the best possible education relative to what could
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by eas 19y ago
I think you are totally right given the current state of video lectures--they are like the first movies, just awkward translations of stage plays that don't take advantage of the ways that a film can be different and better. I'd much rather
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No Matter Where You Went, Your Education Wasn’t the Best(avidior.org)
10 points by eas 19y ago|9 comments
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by eas 19y ago
If dozens of teens started purposely driving their cars into trees then you would probably see those articles.
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by eas 19y ago
"Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon." - Milton Friedman
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Heroes Call Me Friend: Discussion Karma, Formal Reputation, and Google(econlog.econlib.org)
3 points by eas 19y ago|0 comments
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by eas 19y ago
The only problem is that these funds don't start out trying to be correlated with each other--the most successful strategies are those that no one else is doing, since you, tautologically, get the best prices on broadly undervalued assets.
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by eas 19y ago
In addition to that PG article, you might also be interested in this video lecture by MIT Sloan professor Thomas Malone, where he discusses his book The Future of Work, which is right up that alley. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/229/ Appa
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Debugging Comments: Robin Hanson on the problems with comment systems(overcomingbias.com)
2 points by eas 19y ago|0 comments