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by graycat 9y ago
Here I consider just early stage information technology VC -- later stage and bio-medical can be much different. Yup, from my experience, the OP has what a lot of VCs do. One thing for an entrepreneur to do is to read some remarks from a VC
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by graycat 9y ago
Yup.
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by graycat 9y ago
For someone considering a startup, again, once again, yet again, over again, one more time, the probability of being successful in a startup, say, estimated from all the startup efforts, is at best useless and otherwise misleading and, thus
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by graycat 9y ago
Nice. You illustrated an old, back of the envelope standard for investing in new hardware: The new stuff has to be at least 10 times better than the old stuff.
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by graycat 9y ago
The Flownet article was nice. I got reminded of lots of old networking stuff, e.g., ATM. From about 1980 to about 2000, LAN technology was a chaotic war. The war part was from all the competitive battles. The chaos was from all the diffe
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by graycat 9y ago
On the limitations of machine learning as in the OP, the OP is correct. So, right, current approaches to "machine learning* as in the OP have some serious "limitations". But this point is a small, tiny special case of somet
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by graycat 9y ago
If there could be a book, then there's enough for a blog post for the four cases you mentioned. As it is, you are telling me that during the night aliens will attack my business, leave without a trace, but have my business in ruins by
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by graycat 9y ago
1) Yup, employees can leave. We know that. If have a "key" employee, then need some strong reasons they will stay, and even with those reasons they may leave because of something about their marriage, children, health, etc. If
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by graycat 9y ago
Fill us in; why did they fail? I've seen a lot in business, and I never saw anything as challenging and perverse as your "creative ways the universe will come up with to screw you". The worst I heard of was law suits by paten
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by graycat 9y ago
Good news: I can agree with some of the OP. Much better news: I do believe that it's fairly obvious that there are good solutions to the most important problem mentioned in the OP. First a remark on scope: I'm talking about in
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by graycat 9y ago
I can get larger font sizes, plenty large, with just one keystroke to my Web browser, Ctrl-+. But for the Web page I mentioed, that keystroke doesn't solve the problem because the lines still have 96 or so characters. Then, as I ment
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by graycat 9y ago
Okay, I read all that OP. To me, the OP has a huge gap, so huge what it left out is more important than all it put in. What it left out has a name; in the academic fields of organizational behavior and public administration, the left out
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by graycat 9y ago
> For revenue, most likely related to the business model. You totally lost me: In the report, I just didn't see any mention of traction or revenue. I can't see that traction or revenue are part of the business model, product,
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by graycat 9y ago
In the report, I didn't see much mention of traction , revenue, social proof , etc. For technology , sure, bio-medical VCs can evaluate that, but I doubt that information technology VCs can or will. For deal flow, a common remark of
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by graycat 9y ago
On the OP Web page, the lines commonly have about 96 characters. On my 14" screen with a Web browser magnification that lets a whole line show at once, the text is so small it is totally unreadable. With more magnification from my Web
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by graycat 9y ago
So why has ET not used something like a Dyson sphere or a starshade to send us light signals as a form of "Hello"? Maybe because by the time a planet is able to send such signals, they have discovered better means, faster than lig
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by graycat 9y ago
Double slit experiment? It appears that some people, e.g., Feynman, believe that this experiment is profound. I don't have an explanation as good as I would like, but from what I studied in physics class, reading Feynman, etc. here&#
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by graycat 9y ago
For EPR, as I understand it from my too crude reading, there is an event and two particles are created and fly off in different, maybe from conservation of momentum, opposite directions. So, the two particles are a QM system with one wave
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by graycat 9y ago
I like Kolmogorov a lot (father of modern probability) and have heard of his complexity but need to study that and see how it applies to physics.
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by graycat 9y ago
I know about unitary in math. Just what QM does with it I don't know yet! I'm eager enough to further develop my intuitive understanding. My ugrad physics prof said I had "a good feeling for physics" -- that was after
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by graycat 9y ago
> The rest of your post is discussing philosophy, I'm trying not to be philosophical and wondering if by now we have enough data so that we can talk about purpose without being philosophical. Sure, that we have that much data now i
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by graycat 9y ago
> unconcerned about the environmental impact, the urban sprasubwl and resource drainage, the insane amount of money spent purchasing and maintaining cars and highways, and the thousands of people who die every year in car accidents? We c
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by graycat 9y ago
> No. The evolution of quantum systems is unitary and conserves energy. I'm guessing that all the tiny parts of the wave function basically can't interact and collapse so just continue on forever. I don't see a conflict w
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by graycat 9y ago
> But I don't understand how the question "what is the purpose of X" can be anything but philosophical. Again, my guess is that this depends on how much we know. Or, there about has to be a purpose. And eventually as we
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by graycat 9y ago
One of the ones that gets me and may be central to space is the central idea in the Young's double slit experiment, the Michelson-Morley interferometer, the Fabry-Perot interferometer, etc. Indeed, the night I was studying for my fi
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by graycat 9y ago
For my first question, I was wondering if by now we had enough information to make a guess that is not just philosophical.
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by graycat 9y ago
Do we know enough yet to have some good guesses about (1) the purpose of the universe, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14570170 (2) the end of the universe, (A) big expansion and cool down to nothing, (B) no more expan
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by graycat 9y ago
Interesting. I was saying that at this point, NYC does need trains. And, suspicions confirmed, NYC is awash in money to pay for them, and for the new construction after 9/11, for the big water tunnels, for some subway extensions, fo
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by graycat 9y ago
I was astoundingly "concise" and answered your specific question in my first, short sentence: You asked > Are you suggesting that a metro system, like MTA or BART, is the same as a high speed rail? They serve fundamentally diff
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by graycat 9y ago
Interesting. Recently I read the 180% number. And that should apply to importing a US car. Yup, I didn't keep a reference. And the reference neglected to mention that buying cars within the EU would have no import fee.

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