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by graycat 12y ago
Thanks a lot guys: I don't know what they heck you are so upset about: What I wrote is not facetious but genuinely complimentary to baddox. The baddox post was good. How good? The thinking in that post seems to me to be better than
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by graycat 12y ago
You make a lot of sense. A lot of good sense. Yup, you do a good job! But, but, but, and you are not nearly alone, you are not Peter who did PayPal, now has the big bucks, dreams big dreams, and gets famous, and maybe some revenue, by wr
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by graycat 12y ago
> "The biggest secret in venture capital is that the best investment in a successful fund equals or outperforms the entire rest of the fund combined," he writes. This power law distribution of VC investments means that a few be
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by graycat 12y ago
Your ISP might have something simple where you could just fill in some blanks. A lot of companies, including some VC firms, have just gone to Facebook and used it. Could try any of the blog hosting means. Probably don't want to run you
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by graycat 12y ago
> Customers approach it in a different way and that can help them to discover sites that they wouldn't otherwise find through search and news. Very much so, and a directory can be focused start into a very different approach to th
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by graycat 12y ago
> rival the usability Not really their utility ! Search by keywords/phrases sorted by popularity and date do not fully replace a good directory which, in contrast, can be a list curated by human experts in ways that keywords&#x2
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by graycat 12y ago
Yes, recently I was asked about Python. So, the original version was based on C and is sometimes called C Python. The usual version is interpretive and, thus, ballpark 10 times slower than a compiled language. And the person asking wanted
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by graycat 12y ago
My main point is: Just why is an information technology startup with explosive growth potential, early on with just a few employees, as described so vividly in Altman's lecture, usually so different, say, in level of desperation, fro
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by graycat 12y ago
You are correct. I thought about that and was tempted to admit this possibility and not call every business with 15 employees "small", but I wanted to keep the wording simple! I'm not completely wrong! Commonly many people
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by graycat 12y ago
"Burn out" can be serious stuff. Often it has the clinical description of depression or even clinical depression , and the second of these two can be life threatening. E.g., stress is a common cause of depression, and a start
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by graycat 12y ago
One short remark: There was a lot of good in that lecture. But generally the theme is, that when have 2-3 founders and are growing to 10-15 people, the situation is, in just one word, desperate . Let's consider that: Yes, the subje
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by graycat 12y ago
It appears that we are not considering the same issues, i.e., we are not communicating, E.g., right up front in my post I said, as a summary, and overview, and a statement of my purpose in my post: > I want to propose that it can be poss
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by graycat 12y ago
I'm not trying to compete with Google/Bing where their work with keywords/phrases, page rank popularity, and, say, date, work well. And for a huge pile of Internet content, search, and results, they do work well. For the
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by graycat 12y ago
Yes, there are differences, and you mentioned some. But I believe that the alternative approach I described can work for commercial products and where the founder observes the need. Indeed, as I mentioned, the approach has a severe filter
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by graycat 12y ago
> the execution was vastly more difficult than the idea But the execution was fully routine, that is, low risk. > couldn't have been done by a startup Right. But maybe in the future, and because of my main point: It's full
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by graycat 12y ago
Just watched the lecture. The first part of the lecture was on the "Idea", and I want to give an alternative approach. First, do I believe that what Altman describes can work and is what he has seen has worked? Definitely yes. Se
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by graycat 12y ago
What is a near match is an issue.
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by graycat 12y ago
Yes, there can be some differences. E.g., a user might search for something that does not exist. So, they can do the search, that is, attempt, but not find the results. Or, there's a lot of content on the Internet; a lot of it, a lot
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by graycat 12y ago
As I understand it, you have described what Google does with words and pictures well. Ng wants neural networks to identify things, maybe Ferraris. Then he wants a search user to send a picture as their input for the search they want to do.
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by graycat 12y ago
Let's consider only "safe for work" Internet content: Google/Bing have done well with keyword/phrase searching with results sorted by popularity and date. Ng seems to be thinking that the big change will be having s
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by graycat 12y ago
Again, for the issue of growing the economy and standard of living through more exploitation of what's on the shelves of the research libraries and the well trained workers in that material, I believe that the bottleneck is, really, wi
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by graycat 12y ago
> If this study were truth, why are there just as many male academics as there are female? My guess is that the study focused mostly on K-8 or K-12 maybe with some college. In contrast, you are talking about what happens in the world of
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by graycat 12y ago
Well, the article is beginning to understand! Some recently reported research (I apologize for lack of a reference) explains that already in the crib girls are paying attention to people and boys, to things. Then what the OP is describing a
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by graycat 12y ago
> Another possibility is that we reached a level of development where going forwad is really that hard. Well, harder . See my post at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8338417 in this thread where I try to explain t
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by graycat 12y ago
See my post at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8338417 in this thread. I believe we are largely in agreement, and I suggest what happened near 1970 and propose an answer to the question since 1970 and to what Thiel is
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by graycat 12y ago
The title of this thread asks a question, and here is my guess at an answer: Progress 1900-1941. Mostly based on practical 'tinkering' with a little science and engineering at just the college level. With a few exceptions, didn&
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by graycat 12y ago
Of course the traveling salesman problem is combinatorial optimization, and of course Uber, Lyft, Sidecar, etc. have such problems, as has long been the case for dial a ride . And, for the case of trips regularly planned, e.g., using one
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by graycat 12y ago
Nice visualization of an application of simulated annealing. We should keep in mind that the OP is doing the traveling salesman problem (TSP) in the plane. So we should recall the nice Karp result in about 1972: With meager assumptions on
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by graycat 12y ago
It seems to me that Peter describes a lot of mistakes and then proposes mostly some new ones. After the initial dust settles, what we want is a valuable, defensible, first good or a much better, must have and not just nice to have solution
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by graycat 12y ago
Lard does make better pie crust than vegetable shortening -- no joke. Near DC, we had some friends with a farm on the water near Annapolis. They had some cherry trees, sour, red cherries, that they had cared for properly and, then, a lot o

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