flom

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Running a startup under missile fire(jpost.com)
2 points by flom 12y ago|0 comments
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by flom 14y ago
I'm not a physicist, but my understanding is that the debate about whether or not "quantum is deterministic" centers around what your interpretation is of the wave function. I think most physicists, who Penrose would probably criticize, bel
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by flom 14y ago
Re 2: There should be an obvious qualitative difference between being able to predict where a ball will land if I throw it, and predicting who the passengers riding a particular train in 15 years will be. Re 3: I was commenting on Roger Pen
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by flom 14y ago
You make a good point. In my earlier post, replace "universe" with "solar system." Then, I can represent the states of the solar system in some subset of the universe, and I'll place this computer sufficiently far from the solar system so i
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by flom 14y ago
Due to the inconsistency between quantum and relativity, I'm more inclined to believe that the problem is with relativity. The idea that physics is fundamentally non-deterministic satisfies me philosophically. If physics were deterministic,
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by flom 14y ago
My advice would be to network with other students interested in startups, and build stuff with them. Twice a semester, there is a business pitch competition called "Pitch Dingman," and there's an annual business plan competition through MTE
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by flom 14y ago
I can't speak for other schools, but the University of Maryland is working hard to become a "startup school." A few examples: At least five professors in our electrical engineering department have companies. The business school has successf
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by flom 14y ago
A lot of startups "like" Instagram already exist, but ONLY Instagram has 40+ million users, that's the difference. Just because 100 more startups get created in this space doesn't mean any of them will acquire a sufficient userbase to threa
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by flom 14y ago
The problem with the analogy between music and math is the free-will aspect. Everyone is FORCED to take math, whereas most people are NOT forced to play an instrument (at least in the US). Everyone knew a couple of math wizzes who usually w
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by flom 15y ago
I have a question for the more experienced HN users: is the author correct in asserting that in the "real world," being a co-founder of a startup is considered unemployed if there isn't a successful exit? I always thought that building a pr
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by flom 15y ago
I don't think the hacker news / stackoverflow model will work for research papers. People read hacker news articles because they want to keep up with what's going on in the tech community, even if it's not super related to their particular
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by flom 15y ago
My understanding is that most publications are not heavily cited, and address very specific problems. I'm curious as to how you plan on creating incentives for qualified people to review the papers in their field which focus on problems out