ericsilver

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by ericsilver 8y ago
Perhaps instead they could build a central store of potential ad clicks and their base rate likelihood of being clicked. Then, instead of clicking everything, they could click ads at the same rates an average user would, across the network.
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by ericsilver 8y ago
I'd learned Dvorak using a Kinesis keyboard. I use both Dvorak with the Kinesis and QWERTY with a standard keyboard. The slight difference in profile is enough that I've never had interference, and use both comfortably. That sa
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by ericsilver 8y ago
Or is it merely that central vac is highly correlated with square footage and neighborhood age, each of which might better predict prices.
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by ericsilver 8y ago
The author didn't do a very good job interpreting these statistics. The conditions that would exist when someone would choose to invest in solar panels exclude a large fraction of homes; solar panels are a recent enough addition for m
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by ericsilver 8y ago
Their success metric may just be reversion to the mean; since they started by selecting the people who had made the most calls, you would expect the number of calls to come from those specific people to fall in the coming years. Since ther
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by ericsilver 10y ago
I don't understand the innovation that makes it possible, but Aurochs Brewing has a gluten-free beer that's actually tasty. http://www.aurochsbrewing.com/
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by ericsilver 15y ago
With the cost of re-training for new jobs going up, and the value of un-skilled labor going down, there are certainly more and more folks for whom it's more expensive to get a job than any benefit that they'll receive from it. So there can
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by ericsilver 15y ago
Pittsburgh, PA H1B Pikimal is looking for people interested in NLP, search, and information retrieval. We've a fast-growing collection of facts, facets, and evolving definitions of common adjectives, but we'd like some help making these a
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Google, Quora and all your friends keep giving me bad advice(blog.pikimal.com)
2 points by ericsilver 15y ago|0 comments
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by ericsilver 16y ago
Pittsburgh, PA (no remote) http://pikimal.com/jobs We're looking for Semantic Web and Ruby Developers but if you're a strong developer who doesn't know Ruby yet that's no obstacle. We have extremely flexible hours, collaborative coder DNA
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by ericsilver 16y ago
There are other options besides social or text-based algorithms. My company, Pikimal, is pursuing one - we're pulling together facts on items and are allowing people to weight those facts to dynamically create recommendations. We've added
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by ericsilver 16y ago
It's the early days of the Internet. We've invented sail and gunpowder, and we're just coming to the New World. If you're on Hacker News, you're a navigator - a captain - a fierce programmer. Marketers and social networks, data gatherers
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by ericsilver 16y ago
Pittsburgh, PA (no remote) http://pikimal.com/jobs We're looking for Semantic Web and Ruby Developers but if you're a strong developer who doesn't know Ruby yet that's no obstacle. We have extremely flexible hours, collaborative coder D
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by ericsilver 16y ago
I did this as well - I quit my job, started reading Ruby books and wrote the Alpha version of Pikimal.com. I did this because I'd been the CMO at another start-up where I'd really not understood the dev process well enough and had thought
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Rate my startup: Pikimal - an objective alternative to search
9 points by ericsilver 16y ago|0 comments
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by ericsilver 16y ago
Having studied economics and programming, I think that programming is advantaged. Econ taught me some principles that serve me well in understanding incentives and behaviors, but programming teaches a way of organizing thought which is mor
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by ericsilver 16y ago
I'd had some good success with Facebook and my last company. We'd had enough Facebook fans that we were able to run regular contests a few times a week and to use it as a platform to talk about what we were excited about. The interaction
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by ericsilver 16y ago
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; remote not an option. Hiring Rails Developers and developers who'd like to become Rails Developers in Pittsburgh. We're building web-based decision tools meant to complement search and need folks interested in wor