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by eisenkr 17y ago
The app has created custom keyboards for typing mathematical formulas. Makes for a much better experience.
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P.S.A. prostate screening is inaccurate and a waste of money(nytimes.com)
1 points by eisenkr 17y ago|0 comments
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Google unredacts its Google Voice FCC response(wireless.fcc.gov)
2 points by eisenkr 17y ago|0 comments
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Visual TiVo for my computer(a.wholelottanothing.org)
1 points by eisenkr 17y ago|0 comments
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The New York Times announces a Real Estate API(open.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by eisenkr 18y ago|0 comments
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Overcoming a fear of writing(science-professor.blogspot.com)
14 points by eisenkr 18y ago|9 comments
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by eisenkr 18y ago
I just posted an essay where Freeman Dyson explains his own views about the topic ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=532426 or, more directly, http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/dysonf07/dysonf07_index.html )
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Freeman Dyson: Heretical Thoughts about Science and Society(edge.org)
10 points by eisenkr 18y ago|1 comments
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The Global Warming Heretic - NYTimes On Freeman Dyson(nytimes.com)
71 points by eisenkr 18y ago|111 comments
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by eisenkr 18y ago
The best first book on R I've read is Gelman and Hill's "Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models" ( http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/arm/ ). It's more focused on regression and Bayesian methods than basic proba
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by eisenkr 18y ago
A few years ago I stumbled on a wonderful art project where people used a similar technique to record world class poets as they wrote for 15 minutes. The site is still live at http://quickmuse.com/ if you want to see a poet laureate or tw
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by eisenkr 18y ago
Although the article claims that delaying employment with grad school doesn't make you money, there's some good empirical evidence that a delay can create beneficial cohort effects which pay huge dividends over a career. If you get a job du
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by eisenkr 18y ago
There's a negative stigma about "managers" in the startup world because the word manager is associated with pointy-haired bosses and TPS reports. A manager can, however, be a very positive force when the technical leads on a team are spendi
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by eisenkr 18y ago
I don't think we'd ever get to see the data, but this outage created a beautifully structured natural experiment. It's almost impossible for companies to learn how well they would do if a market leader disappeared, but 30 minutes without Go
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by eisenkr 18y ago
Many top business schools today have grade non-disclosure policies that stop employers from asking about grades and stop students from sharing their transcripts. The students love the policies because they claim it increases collaboration a
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The story behind the DNS flaw (blog.wired.com)
1 points by eisenkr 18y ago|0 comments