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by ericand 8y ago
> the importance of the batch itself This may be the most profound statement about YC relative to the rest of VC. YC provides founders with a founder community, which is very valuable and fairly inexpensive to offer. Traditional VC resou
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by ericand 8y ago
> In the last year, YC companies raised over $945mm across 95 Series As. That’s an increase of 50% over the prior year in terms of rounds done, and 71% in dollars raised Anyone know if the batches were of similar size in terms of the num
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by ericand 8y ago
Some of the other examples were advertisements to doctors. Would you still feel this way if that were the case on this one?
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by ericand 8y ago
Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
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by ericand 8y ago
> Feature engineering is a mechanism of creating new levels of abstraction in knowledge representation because each (non-trivial) feature extract and makes explicit some piece of knowledge hidden in the data. It is almost precisely what
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WSJ: The Quiet Efforts to Battle Silicon Valley's Bro Culture(wsj.com)
1 points by ericand 8y ago|0 comments
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by ericand 8y ago
I've been using Chromebooks more and more where upgrades are almost transparent. When I go back to my macbook (haven't been on windows for a while), I'm surprised how disruptive upgrades are. I'll trade far fewer OS feat
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by ericand 8y ago
I wish we had clear/consistent vocabulary for talking about privacy and personal data captured. This seemed pretty clear but it did take a lot of text to explain it and in the end, I still wanted to know if sessions are tagged together
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by ericand 8y ago
In case, like myself, you come looking for the punchline: "...concluded that the true heritability of human longevity for birth cohorts across the 1800s and early 1900s was well below 10%"
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by ericand 8y ago
A couple significant callouts: (1) "Behind the scenes, Now 2.0 works like an extensible build system and compiler, capable of transforming your sources into static files and serverless functions (lambdas) for production." The demo
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Prefect.io: Data Engineering Platform Based on Kuberenetes, Dask and GraphQL(prefect.io)
2 points by ericand 8y ago|0 comments
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by ericand 8y ago
Especially considering that they claim you can make an app in a lunch hour. They were just one lunch hour from a "solid" launch!
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by ericand 8y ago
I loved the reference to the Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Like you, A colleague of mine saw parallels in the book to data science (He wrote a series of talks about them. Here's a video with me explaining some of them htt
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by ericand 8y ago
Moderate to small, 3/4 bedroom, 2 bathroom houses sell for $4M or so in Los Altos and Los Altos Hills. I'm not sure how newsworthy it is that a co-founder of a major corporation has a home 5x the cost of normal homes in the neighb
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by ericand 8y ago
Is CSS grid an alternative to flexbox?
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by ericand 8y ago
Perhaps you are thinking of California? This is certainly true in California, but I've seen non-competes enforced in the tech sector elsewhere in the US (Seattle, Utah, etc).
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by ericand 8y ago
I'm a VC and I've seen lots of pitches lately for various tech related to new architectures, be it GPU, FPGA or RISC. I'd add cryptocurrency to list workloads with insatiable computing demands.
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by ericand 8y ago
If I understand correctly, they say that meditation deactivates default mode and this has a positive impact on pain tolerance. Interestingly, there is lots of discussion on the importance and value of default mode for creativity and other t
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by ericand 8y ago
Anyone have tips for getting up on the waitlist? I wonder if they are prioritizing researchers.
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by ericand 8y ago
Collection of PDFs, more/less like a textbook. Looks worthwhile.
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by ericand 8y ago
What's up with this domain? Is there anything else under toolbox.google.com?
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by ericand 8y ago
I came just for the cookie bug and was not disappointed.
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by ericand 8y ago
Also posted on reddit which has some interesting discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/5bn8jx/a_bug_story_dat...
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by ericand 8y ago
My understanding is that failing is more of an issue outside the US. In the US, which is where the data is from, I tend to agree with DoreenMichele: Startup failure is fairly easy to recover from. You mostly risk opportunity cost (lost wage
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by ericand 8y ago
Great data, but I'm pretty disappointed with many of the other conclusions. In the opening line the article states that the 5 largest tech companies were founded by those age 30 and lower. Why? The article isn't very helpful here.
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by ericand 8y ago
I recently went through a framework selection between React, Vue and Angular. I ended up with React for reasons typified by this post. There is a massive community and a great dev team (Facebook) interested in evolving and improving React o
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by ericand 8y ago
My experience as well. I moved from RN to Flutter because the dev experience felt less brittle.
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by ericand 8y ago
Amen. They are trying to have their cake and eat it too.
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Why your next open source project may only be an interface(oreilly.com)
1 points by ericand 8y ago|0 comments
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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did(hbr.org)
1 points by ericand 8y ago|0 comments

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