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by econner 14y ago
Ah. Smart statistician. Thanks for that.
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by econner 14y ago
Hmm yea that's a good point. I guess my thought was that founders are almost unilaterally interested in learning from successes over failures. For example, Startup School doesn't consist of a bunch of speakers who have only failed at star
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Ask HN: Survivor Bias. Why don't we focus more on startups that fail?
53 points by econner 14y ago|32 comments
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Ask HN: How do you work in an open office plan and get anything done?
12 points by econner 14y ago|11 comments
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by econner 14y ago
This is great. My high school didn't offer any AP computer science and most people equated programming with learning how to use MS Office programs. I think programming will truly become a medium like math that you need to know because it
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Is the Ballmer Peak Real?(skeptics.stackexchange.com)
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by econner 14y ago
Go Workflowy! Love this thing.
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by econner 14y ago
Essentially: PageRank where nodes are words and edges are occurrence in the same document. Really cool idea. Great work. I love to see this kind of stuff.
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by econner 14y ago
Check out the forums at http://artofproblemsolving.com/
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Normal Accident Theory(ohio.edu)
2 points by econner 14y ago|0 comments
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by econner 14y ago
The study followed 49 undergraduates who had taken Java classes. I would argue that, because of this, the students were probably more experienced with static type systems.
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by econner 15y ago
This is exactly what came to mind for me. To see Don Knuth say that he was afraid of failing is downright shocking... I would have thought he would have spent very little time thinking about classes and would have already been in a world o
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Stanford's latest iPhone and iPad apps course now free to the world on iTunes U(news.stanford.edu)
2 points by econner 15y ago|1 comments
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Katango Acquired by Google(s3.amazonaws.com)
22 points by econner 15y ago|7 comments
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Where is the One Percent?(thekeesh.com)
34 points by econner 15y ago|47 comments
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Best Y Combinator Startups(raunk.com)
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Best Free Online Stanford CS Classes according to Stanford CS Majors(raunk.com)
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Scientists discover tipping point for the spread of ideas (it's 10%)(physorg.com)
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by econner 15y ago
So is it going to be called Rearden Metal?
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by econner 15y ago
This is awesome. Especially because now his app is going to get tons of attention for his good attitude with this post being #2 on Hacker News. Being generous pays off in the end :-).
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by econner 15y ago
I completely identify with this point. A member of my family suffers from depression and she's generated a list of things that she has to do when she feels particularly depressed. They are all pretty basic things for most people -- thin
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FB virus comes disguised as link to a valid Dropbox File(thekeesh.com)
13 points by econner 15y ago|1 comments
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The Secret Team that Killed Bin Laden(nationaljournal.com)
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The Economy of Ideas (March 1994)(wired.com)
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by econner 16y ago
I would agree with this too. I am an undergraduate CS student at Stanford and a section leader for the introductory courses (cs106b -- Prof Roberts calls it CS2 in the post -- this quarter). I do notice quite a few kids who have conscious
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by econner 16y ago
Ah, that's really cool and thanks for your reply. You guys are doing some incredible work. One thing you guys might be interested in: https://courseware.stanford.edu/pg/concept_map/index/41601 Daphne Koller is a Stanford CS professor who
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by econner 16y ago
I've been looking at the Khan Academy site a bit. I find the exercise dashboard kind of strange. Is math the only available subject? And do you have to go through all the prerequisite exercises to progress to the next ones?
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by econner 16y ago
I think there is a kind of availability heuristic effect going on here. You hear about people who regularly pull all-nighters because they do boast about them so that it seems more prevalent than is actually the case. You don't hear the st
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by econner 16y ago
The basic idea is that when countries go into surplus an increased foreign demand for their products should push up wage levels, domestic demand and, in turn, price levels. With the rising prices there is less demand and the current accoun
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by econner 16y ago
Most theories today posit that dopamine encodes the positive predictive error between a true reward and an expected reward. So if the reward is much more than you expect lots of dopamine will be released, but if it is exactly what you expe

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