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by grayje 11y ago
Addy Pross wrote a similar paper in 2011, but the neologism then was "dynamic kinetic stability" https://aeon.co/essays/paradoxes-of-stability-how-life-began... http://www.bgu.ac.il/~pross&#x2
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by grayje 11y ago
https://www.quantopian.com/ has a great community, lots of examples & tuts available, and you can look at everyone else's algos. It's free, there's free backtesting, etc. They're a "crowdsourced
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by grayje 11y ago
I've been using org-mode in various capacities for a little over a year now. I've tried other tools but keep coming back. As far as complexity goes, I feel like I'm barely scratching the surface. I like what Neal Stephenson h
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Amazon launches free, daily show for fashion shoppers(seattletimes.com)
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by grayje 11y ago
Congratulations are in order, whether or not the credential helped you get the gig :-) Based on your comment it almost sounds like your "portfolio" is what got you the job, not the certificate itself. But I guess where the coursew
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by grayje 11y ago
"At the point of desire, you want more, but at the point of daily use, you want less." -John Maeda, on complexity in product design
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by grayje 11y ago
The same story from 2014: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/06/03/this-... Not that it isn't still very, very relevant...
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by grayje 11y ago
Remember, there's a special name for the type of reporting journalists do when they aren't just copying & pasting government and corporate press releases in their news stories: "investigative journalism." Anything el
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by grayje 11y ago
> an unbundled or streaming subscriber would need to pay $36 a month for ESPN access for them to generate the same revenue they generate through current cable carriage contracts That subscriber will be worth a lot more once they can be t
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by grayje 11y ago
Fascinating. I believe we're nowhere near a full understanding of the diversity of pre-H. sapiens species. Just last year the discovery of another Homo species, H. nadeli, was claimed [1]. I feel like we're going to keep finding m
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by grayje 11y ago
"Heads I win, tails you lose" The guarantee still doesn't prove that Udacity's credentialing process provides any incremental value above and beyond just taking the classes. Is it the knowledge, or the credential, that g
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by grayje 11y ago
Interestingly, this practice is more common than you'd think, even at name-brand universities. My own alma mater got in some controversy over this [1]. This is also a shady practice of a lot of "for-profit" college chains [2]
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Yahoo's core business is worth negative $7.3B(usatoday.com)
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by grayje 11y ago
Reading a lot of the comments in this thread, you guys are taking this announcement and running with it in some weird directions. Google's just playing catch-up with ad targeting features that Facebook has had for years. Nobody is targ