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by ergest 10y ago
This article incorrectly assumes that smart investors would sit around and do nothing if most people invest in index funds.
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by ergest 10y ago
Very cool! Seems similar to what Brett Victor demos here: https://vimeo.com/36579366
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by ergest 11y ago
Data stories analyzed 4 million data points from the front page or Reddit to figure out what features of articles increase their likelihood of showing up on the Reddit front page. A very interesting application of machine learning algorithm
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What makes it to the front page of Reddit(blog.datastories.com)
2 points by ergest 11y ago|1 comments
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by ergest 11y ago
According to the article, when computers start doing the work of people, the need for people often increases. I simply cannot take anymore the doom and gloom of the supposed AI revolution and how it will make us all jobless.
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The Automation Paradox(theatlantic.com)
31 points by ergest 11y ago|64 comments
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by ergest 11y ago
Mint can already look at your CC transactions if you connect the bank account to it. I wonder how come they've never done something similar. It wouldn't really cost them that much to maintain a database of subscription based servi
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by ergest 11y ago
Wrong motives (trying to be a cool company) plus wrong incentives (billion dollar evaluation and lots of cash to burn) leads to wrong focus and feelings of invincibility.
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by ergest 11y ago
I'm sticking with Windows 7 until Windows 15
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by ergest 11y ago
Wasn't working on my iPad, jumped on the laptop now it's toast. It got Hackernews-ed/Slashdot-ed before it had a chance to scale.
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by ergest 11y ago
I think we've been conditioned to expect a CTA at the end of many "articles" which has made many of them into pitches rather than articles. Why can't an article simply bring awareness of another culture from a foreigner&
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by ergest 11y ago
This is only the most AMAZING thing to happen to Excel! I got some Excel data from a friend to analyze and went through the usual PivotTable way for a while until I hit a roadblock and I needed something more advanced. I knew how to solve m
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by ergest 11y ago
It's simple, it got disrupted by free compilers and Microsoft's .NET
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by ergest 11y ago
Hey Khuram, I'm very interested in what you're doing, it's something I'd want to do as well! I love strategy but havent figured out how to leverage my knowledge/skill to get started there. Are you available for chat
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by ergest 11y ago
This is gonna mess up some major web analytics stats about referrers :)
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by ergest 11y ago
I hated liberal arts classes while in college. "They're useless!" I used to decry. I optimized my classes for my degree and took the bare minimum requirements. Only now do I see how useful they would have been if I had taken
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by ergest 11y ago
Talking to Nick Halstead, the CEO and founder of DataSift, he said that his company was “blindsided” by Twitter’s announcement, which it made without any warning to DataSift. He should have totally seen it coming and been prepared. When
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by ergest 12y ago
This is great! I've always equated consulting with freelancing, in the sense that say if you were consulting as a data scientist, you actually do the model building for the client, but this changes everything!
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by ergest 12y ago
Is it me or are people switching to non-relational data warehouse architectures simply because it's en vogue? How many companies do you know that have enough data where a non-relational DW would actually make sense? I wonder, have we r
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by ergest 12y ago
I've achieved the same "feat" of being able to chat seemingly about nothing while being an introvert. What it took was introspection and a lucky read. I detail the mental refactoring I went through here: http://ref
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2048? Strike that, how about 4096?(fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net)
1 points by ergest 13y ago|0 comments
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by ergest 13y ago
I wonder how a document that says "Highly Confidential - Attorneys' Eyes Only makes it into the wild.
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by ergest 13y ago
You should have titled this post "2048: The Game of Clones"
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by ergest 13y ago
From a quick scan of the notes, it seems like this is yet another 300 page book that says nothing beyond "quit your job and start a multi-million dollar business of some kind"
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by ergest 13y ago
Not necessarily. They might as well be named attribute_1, attribute_2....attribute_n. ML algorithms don't care about the meaning of the features.
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by ergest 13y ago
I'm making my way through this book now. It's very rough terrain since the book was a PhD thesis, but it's really the best in-depth look at Boyd's work, of which I am a big fan!
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by ergest 13y ago
According to Vivek Wadhwa: "In a follow-up project, we looked at the backgrounds of 549 successful entrepreneurs in twelve high-growth industries. The average age of male founders in this group was 40, and the average age of female fo
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by ergest 13y ago
Entrepreneurs are the new labor http://www.forbes.com/sites/venkateshrao/2012/09/03/entrepre...
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by ergest 13y ago
I feel the same way. In fact the idea of "flipping" the funnel is not new. Seth Godin wrote an ebook on it: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2006/01/flipping_the... It's a lot easier for
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by ergest 13y ago
Looks like a botched release

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