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Excluding native english speakers means you exclude UK, Canada, Israel, South Africa and India which is a substantial part of the world when it comes to tech founders. But even then there's plenty of large valley companies with foreign
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The market for undergraduate textbooks is completely different from that of post-grad level specialist texts. The economics are very different due to the fact that the people making purchase decisions (i.e course directors, etc.) are differ
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> Publishers operate like venture firms in this regard - they make most of their money off of the blockbuster hits, and there's a long tail of books that are unprofitable or very close to unprofitable. Not really true for specialist
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Senior Python Engineers | MarketInvoice | £60k-£80k | London, UK (our last two hires were from HN) https://www.marketinvoice.com/ MarketInvoice is the VC-backed peer-to-peer fintech platform that’s building the modern backb
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Normally acquisitions requires key employees to contractually commit to staying for a minimum period after the acquisition. It's fairly common for founders to leave after this period though.
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If the rumours are true on GM acquisition of Cruise for >$1bn it's a major home run for YC; founder Kyle Vogt’s second YC unicorn (after Twitch) and third YC exit (after SocialCam). (Twitch and Cruise will be the only two YC unicorn
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You're missing the forest for the trees. Tesauro's work on TD-Gammon was pioneering at the high level, i.e. combining reinforcement learning + self-play + neural networks.
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And you'll find it in the AlphaGo paper. It's not a contentious claim.
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AlphaGo is essentially built on the work that IBM did on TD-Gammon (a reinforcement learning backgammon player) in the 90s. Pretty much the same thing happened with TD-Gammon with it playing unconventional moves, in the longer term humans e
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Companies which have publicly disclosed that were rejected by YC and have since raised >$20m: * Chartboost * Sendgrid * LightSail I've seen it claimed that Couchbase should be on this list, but I've never seen a primary source
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Senior Python Engineers | MarketInvoice | £60k-£80k | London, UK (our last two hires were from HN) https://www.marketinvoice.com/ MarketInvoice is the VC-backed peer-to-peer fintech platform that’s building the modern backb
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I'm at a London based startup (MarketInvoice) that's open to sponsoring work visas and we've seen an increasing number of candidates from SF, not only for tech roles but across the board. London isn't exactly known for c
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If the OCR is good then they're totally burying the lede, it's pricing is 100x cheaper than commercial OCR APIs. It's potentially a game changer, plenty of industries have piles of scanned documents. Cheap OCR means this data
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It sounds like you were mostly working back/middle office. You can earn a lot more in front office if you're working as a developer on a trading desk. At some banks front office developers share desk bonuses which can be very lucr
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Senior Python Engineers | MarketInvoice | £60k-£80k | London, UK (our last two hires were from HN) https://www.marketinvoice.com/ MarketInvoice is the VC-backed peer-to-peer fintech platform that’s building the modern backb
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Generally at most companies past a certain size it's done by a product manager (who might sit in marketing/product/tech) and often via a tool like optimizely rather than direct engineering.
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(IANAL) Unless you have something bizarre in your contract it's unlikely they could sue. Unless specifically stated the fact that you quit wouldn't be counted as company confidential information. Further more given the person you
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Only when they're known to be toxic, drugs which are considered otherwise benign (or at least not excessively toxic) which include some newer cancer drugs are tested in healthy volunteers.
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In the startup world hugely. When you're running a startup your day-to-day life revolves around pricing models, conversion funnels, budgets, commission schemes, etc. If you're not able to do mental calculations while in the middle
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I believe Google was already in the millions of searches territory by that point. What made Andy a risk taker in that case wasn't the traction (which would still be significant in todays terms with a vastly larger internet population)
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If you've got a strong track record and connections then you can raise money with just an idea, but in reality most founders don't have that so the only way they can prove their ability is via their actions and these days that ten
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Yes, it's trivial. For board games all AIs essentially use Alpha–beta pruning + scoring function and an approximation to that scoring function can be autogenerated using standard machine learning techniques. For (classic) video games i
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That's actually trivially doable and has been done for video games and board games.
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Senior Python Engineers MarketInvoice | London, UK (our last two hires were from HN) MarketInvoice is the VC-backed peer-to-peer fintech platform that’s building the modern backbone of the economy. Imagine you’re a young company who’s just
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(I don't know any specifics on this case but speaking generally about this type of business) It could well be that revenue figure includes "pass through revenue" (aka GMV) as the company isn't public they're not req
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MarketInvoice | London, UK (our last two hires were from HN) Senior Python Engineers MarketInvoice is the VC-backed peer-to-peer fintech platform that’s building the modern backbone of the economy. Imagine you’re a young company who’s just
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It absolutely happens (as in I've seen it happen in lots of places) and serves an important value. When cold calling the big thing that's missing in the communication is trust, why should the lead trust some guy who's phoned
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Forgot to include the salary range: for graduate level we're generally looking at around £30k-40k, for mid-level we're looking at £40-60k and for senior £60k-£80k. All roles +meaningful equity options with low strike price and emp
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Onsite only at the moment.
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MarketInvoice | London, UK Data Scientists, Data Engineers (Python) and Analysts (SQL-fu) MarketInvoice is the VC-backed peer-to-peer fintech platform that’s building the modern backbone of the economy. Imagine you’re a young company who’s

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