imaginaryunit

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Moving our start-up from Seattle to SF - the story of Napkkin(napkkin.com)
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by imaginaryunit 15y ago
Your point is well-taken and (thankfully) there are safeguards in place at top journals. However, Rob Tibshirani examined this a while back with a case study and came up with some unsettling conclusions about reproducibility: http://www-st
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by imaginaryunit 15y ago
"In academia, the end product is a publication and your code needs to work only once. " In my experience as ex-academic, the above is all too true in too many computational fields (and many sub-fields of CS). So I ask what scientific value
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by imaginaryunit 15y ago
We've found that Bump often requires several re-bumps, whereas QR codes can be reliably scanned within a few seconds. Also, we enable referrals of contacts (and real-time notifications thereof) with a single touch & click gesture.
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Show HN: Swap contacts by scanning QR codes on your phone
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by imaginaryunit 15y ago
My 2c as someone who has a similar background to yours (did PhD, post-doc, now an entrepreneur): a startup is in most ways more fulfilling than an academic environment. I think startups force you to be good at many things whereas in an acad
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by imaginaryunit 15y ago
What I get from pg's comment is how the research experience has become less fun across the board in the last few decades (I'm focusing on post-graduate research, but a case could be made for undergrad research too). There are many reasons w
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by imaginaryunit 15y ago
Minor point that has always bugged me: why doesn't Cocoa have native implementations of tree data structures?
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by imaginaryunit 15y ago
We recently developed a way to get rid of paper business cards and their shortcomings (e.g.: clutter). It's called Napkkin, and it lets you create a business card on your phone and swap it with people you meet by scanning a QR Code. You can
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Show HN: Easily create, swap and manage paperless business cards(napkkin.com)
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by imaginaryunit 15y ago
Feynman's view on CS is similar by Hal Abelson's take on the term (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQLUPjefuWA ). Abelson's point about CS being more like magic has always stuck with me.
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SICP - "What is Computer Science?"(youtube.com)
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by imaginaryunit 15y ago
Though the gov't might want research to be distributed, the underlying problem here has more to do with the scientists themselves than anything else. We've had ArXiV around for a long time and yet I ask who's adopted it other than mathema
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The frugal way: The promise of cost-conscious science(economist.com)
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Seattle startup goes viral with CDC flu app challenge prize(geekwire.com)
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