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2071.
by htrp 10y ago
This is the Mossad argument on cryptography.... if your adversary is Mossad, they'll just rubber hose cryptanalysis you, if your adversary is not Mossad, a proxy is good enough.
2072.
by htrp 10y ago
Let's get to clinical immortality before worrying about scientific stagnation.
2073.
by htrp 10y ago
GS is one of the few firms that understands how to use tech to out-execute their peers. They probably have better proprietary systems developed 10 years ago than most companies have today.
2074.
by htrp 10y ago
I'd imagine its more on explosive yields. 178 detonations in 1962 spaced out versus 50 weapons of the multi-megaton variety within short succession.
2075.
How should you structure your Data Science and Engineering teams?(fast.ai)
3 points by htrp 10y ago|0 comments
2076.
by htrp 10y ago
Secret investment (or VC it out). Reputational risk is a real thing. I do wonder how much coverage glass would have gotten had it not had the Google halo around it.
2077.
by htrp 10y ago
Any incentive system you develop will be gamed.
2078.
by htrp 10y ago
>How many successful companies do the exact opposite of Google? Have you done any research to determine which company succeeded: in spite of, because of, or no effect, from these models? What about the - surely - hundreds or thousands of
2079.
by htrp 10y ago
>and the Sophie's choices for cell phones is pretty bad! Mind elaborating?
2080.
by htrp 10y ago
Hanlon's razor
2081.
by htrp 10y ago
Unless you buy the company in liquidation (chapter 7 style) which is more and more what this seems like.
2082.
by htrp 10y ago
To be fair though the 1, 3, and 4 are all pebble. 2 is that coolest cooler project
2083.
by htrp 10y ago
I'm impressed that they're spamming you via the search terms. It's like a new unblockable form of native advertising.
2084.
by htrp 10y ago
The free PR and the recruitment value almost entirely offsets the prize cost.
2085.
by htrp 10y ago
Think this is a shift across all disciplines of the social sciencse, where numerous results are not reproducible. Economics especially has a rash of issues (probably like psychology) because experimentation is performed on a sample of popul
2086.
by htrp 10y ago
why not debrief?
2087.
by htrp 10y ago
The only problem with that is that at some point you get into outright (justified or not) paranoia. Is your computer the victim of a supply chain attack? Did someone intercept your switch/router in delivery?
2088.
by htrp 10y ago
At the rate you go, you would have to turn entire areas of Manhattan into car free zones. They proposed congestion pricing but that died quickly.