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by gersh 11y ago
As a former NLP engineer and former wikiHow engineer, I have some perspective on this. Google has included more and more information from Wikipedia. Furthermore, Google includes snippets of external websites in the knowledge box on more and
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by gersh 11y ago
I see a lot of police near the ferry building in San Francisco with machine guns. It feels like the NFL is invading San Francisco.
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by gersh 11y ago
San Francisco has gotten so expensive that New York is cheaper.
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by gersh 11y ago
June 21 is the summer solstice, and pregnancy lasts for 280 days. March 27 is exactly 280 days after June 21.
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by gersh 11y ago
I think engineering discipline is about knowing how much testing is required to ensure your code is good enough with a high probability. If you make a change to your code, how much testing is required to know it works? If you don't wri
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by gersh 14y ago
Suicidal lone-nuts need shouldn't be able to obtain guns. There are probably ways to do this without an outright ban, or excessive bureaucracy. I propose the following possible solutions: 1) Outlaw buying a gun by yourself, and require 10 c
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by gersh 14y ago
Are you willing to share what your evidence is that the big winners do the best during the interview phase? Do you rank all startups that are accepted into YCombinator? Have later YCombinator classes had a larger percentage of homeruns? If
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by gersh 14y ago
So, if you randomly decided which startups to invest in, would you be more successful? Can you really predict anything? If you randomly invested in 100 startups, would your returns be better than your screening process? Can you test this?
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by gersh 14y ago
I think real Silicon Valley start-ups are generally serious organizations with very rigorous hiring requirements. There have been more and more second-tier city "Silicon Valley" startups, but many are not really comparable to typical Silico
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by gersh 14y ago
I think it is interesting idea. However, I think you need a better system than just the number of commits, or lines of code committed. I don't these are very accurate measurements for the degree which someone contributed to the project. You
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by gersh 14y ago
Read good code, and think about how they've done it. Read all the major open source projects. Really try to understand how different people organize different types of projects. Learn different programming languages, and learn how to code i
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by gersh 14y ago
Would it be possible to make a nicotine patch for Starcraft 2? How about a less addictive version to wean yourself off it. Maybe, you switch to Starcraft I, and then Warcraft. How about messing up the resolution, or having a slow internet c
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by gersh 14y ago
It seems like <,:, and certain other characters don't work. Also, why do you skip over white-space? It is interesting. I wonder if I can learn to make fewer typos.
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by gersh 14y ago
Can we encode all of human knowledge into the DNA of some organism? How can organisms access data stored in their DNA? Imagine being born with knowledge of every Wikipedia article, or even every website. What would that be like?
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by gersh 14y ago
How do you grow the rat brain? How hard is it to keep the rat brain alive? How hard would it be to mass produce rat brain CPUs?
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by gersh 14y ago
I think the way it works is the company sets up an offshore subsidiary to provide life insurance to its employees in a low tax jurisdiction. Next, they pay life insurance premiums to the offshore subsidiary, and the offshore subsidiary book
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by gersh 14y ago
Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Steve Jobs all attended college. They just didn't finish. Yet, I think they all derived some value from the time they spent in college.
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by gersh 14y ago
You need Algebra even for "trade" school. According to http://www.njatc.org/training/apprenticeship/index.aspx , you need "One Year of High School Algebra" to become an electrician. I think the same is true for other trades.
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by gersh 14y ago
Plain old marketing is simple. You gotta reach your audience. You gotta figure out what they look at, and you gotta get their attention. If your audience is searching Google, you hit them with SEO and Adwords. If they are watching TV, you g
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by gersh 14y ago
You can split it into training, validation, and test sets if you have enough data. Then, the validation set would be used for the training. Presumably by using a genetic algorithm, he isn't going for a perfect fit, which may help avoid over
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by gersh 14y ago
From the comments to the article, Chicago's I-Go Car Sharing's consumer survey seems to showed "helping the environment" as the 6th most important reason for being a member. I wonder if this is about car sharing in general, or more a reflec
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by gersh 14y ago
Why can't Facebook start charging for its API, and for business pages? Banner ads were big in the 90s before people realized they were that effective. I don't see why Facebook would need to rely on them forever.
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Why Apple dumped the 17-inch MacBook Pro(zdnet.com)
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by gersh 14y ago
His appellate court has jurisdiction over the federal courts in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana. The chief district judge assigns cases. The chief judge designation is based upon seniority, and all of the district judges have lifetime appo
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by gersh 14y ago
He has a lifetime appointment as a judge. Only 9 judges have ever been removed in the history of the country. It isn't likely that he will be removed. They can just appeal his decisions.
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by gersh 14y ago
Solving problems is good. You can also appeal to people's passions or identity. Addictive also seems to work. If you want to just solve a problem, you gotta understand the worst problems people have. Twitter and Facebook work because they h
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by gersh 14y ago
If I want to sell something, how can I get my Bitcoins converted to cash, safely and reliably? I don't trust MtGox, and I don't want to long-term forex risk exposure. Is there someone who could settle Bitcoin to USD, daily in San Francisco?
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by gersh 14y ago
Are incubators the new investment banks? How will this play out when crowdfunding becomes legal?
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by gersh 14y ago
Can you crowdsource all the way to IPO? Do the crowdsourced investors get right of first refusal? Can you do something like: Round 1) 1000 investors put $100 Round 2) 10000 investors put in $1000/each Round 3) 10000 investors put in $10000/
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by gersh 14y ago
New York had a greater percentage of investment during the dot-com boom in the 90s. Since then, it has fluctuated. However, New York hasn't produced too many big tech companies. I think New York's biggest success has been DoubleClick. Outsi

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