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by iaw 10y ago
In my field we call this "overfitting." String theory and multiverse work are adherent to all experimental evidence by design and offer no predictive capabilities (correct me if I'm wrong, please). You can design arbitrary s
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by iaw 10y ago
"The most likely explanation for dark matter is just undiscovered particles" <--- all valid points but I'd argue that dark matter may actually be strictly the result of yet-to-be-understood underlying fields. e.g. dark m
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by iaw 10y ago
The word "empirical" implies that there's some evidence to back up the claims in the work on string theory and the multiverse. A more apt summary may be "Physicist and Philosopher point out lack of empirical underpinnin
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by iaw 10y ago
If only that were true in practice. The stories I could tell about mistakes I've found... At the end of the day, your point is 100% correct.
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by iaw 10y ago
I wish the article was on Apophenia, it would be more fun. Instead it's not clear to me who the target audience is. The phrasing makes it appear to be targeted at analysts and not their business partners. Assuming that to be the case
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by iaw 10y ago
Third-party solutions : not a fan. In-house solutions for analytics : makes sense. If the implementation is lightweight, robust, and not leaky I'm not paranoid enough to care.
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by iaw 10y ago
Yes.
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by iaw 10y ago
It's a cold fusion moment for all medical innovation perceived as coming from a 'start-up.' Funding for real fusion research is still difficult to come by because of the shadow of the cold fusion debacle...
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by iaw 10y ago
They politely asked me to disable my ad blocker for them with a promise that they would be considerate about the ads they serve. I was more than happy to oblige.
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by iaw 10y ago
I know someone who worked on the team to develop one of the 'next-gen' Comcast DVR units. The company is exactly what you'd expect but they apparently did have quite the competent engineering team. Not talking about IT here
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by iaw 10y ago
Thank you. I saw his name, immediately knew what his contribution was, but wasn't familiar with his work in a historical context.
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by iaw 10y ago
There is an argument going on in the VC world right now about how to properly structure employee compensation. There is a side arguing for the status-quo and another side arguing for a change given the new-norm of long-delayed IPO/liqu
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by iaw 10y ago
This comment isn't very productive. Some high-level valley participants are definitely bad actors but the bulk of them are just normal people in positions of power.
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by iaw 10y ago
I'm not a fan of the Tesla brand/vehicles and I have a number of criticisms for the Model S but I wouldn't go so far as to call it 'crappy.' I think more appropriate phrases would be "not fully refined" a
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by iaw 10y ago
>> “This is a unique situation, we’ve never seen it before and we don’t expect to see it again,” said a spokesperson for Andreessen Horowitz. This is the golden line in the article, with the "bend the rules" mantra VC's
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by iaw 10y ago
I spent a few hours the other day trying to troubleshoot a problem with a Compiz interaction on one of my machines causing high temperatures at lock-screen. I finally found that the problem had been intermittently reported for the last 2-3
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by iaw 10y ago
Logged in just to up-vote you and reply. I think this is a serious piece but it makes literally no sense. The mention of George Soros is humorous because his famous play on the British Pound [0] was entirely enabled by economic mistakes ma
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by iaw 10y ago
Actually, the likely scenario is that Microsoft employees make up a sizable portion of the HN user base (relative to smaller companies) and when an MS employee sees something antagonistic towards MS, they downvote. Apple, Google, Microsoft,
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by iaw 10y ago
From what I've heard this is common practice but not commonly understood by first time founders.
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by iaw 10y ago
That is my point. I suspect GAAP numbers paint a wholly different picture about Uber's business health.
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by iaw 10y ago
Start by reading "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" by Malkiel, it covers the ins and outs (and gives you a starting point for more research on anything you don't understand). After that it's on you to read financial news.
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by iaw 10y ago
>> "Uber says it is profitable in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Australia — if you factor out taxes and interest payments." There's a level of immaturity in the current definitions of profitability
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by iaw 10y ago
>> "ignoring the important problem of breakeven" I am so happy you included that line. From when I was studying fusion the actual conversion into usable energy was a complete after thought because breakeven is such a larger
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by iaw 10y ago
Agreed. There's also a lack of understanding of the economics behind the construction of industrial power generation facilities. In short: there is virtually no environment in the US where it's a financially sound decision to bu
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by iaw 10y ago
I think the practical limitation here is generating and concentrating/focusing the gravitational waves. EDIT: And there would probably have to be some control of the relative phase of each component wave as well.
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by iaw 10y ago
I look forward to every update on Voxel Quest. I find the entire project breathtaking and beautiful. Even if I never personally play it, I am grateful that it exists.
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by iaw 10y ago
Thank you. This is the piece of information I was looking for. Essentially they will drain any prepaid cards while validating credit and debits. This makes the 'fraud reversal' technique mentioned elsewhere in this thread infea
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by iaw 10y ago
That was the only one up there that I thought was reasonably humorous and good natured.
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by iaw 10y ago
As problematic as Cisco's messaging was on this fiasco, Tony Fadell should take note about how professionals handle disagreements in the press.
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by iaw 10y ago
Perhaps Benioff knows something the rest of us don't about the long-term potential. That or he had the money burning a hole in his pocket and had to spend it on something...

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