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by inthewoods 8y ago
Amazingly there wasn't even a requirement for basic income checks when issuing a mortgage - that came after the crisis. If we look at the mortgage pipeline, the problems become obvious, but none of them have to do with the government,
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by inthewoods 8y ago
Cloudcannon.com is my favorite static site CMS for this reason and the reason I stick with Jekyll.
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by inthewoods 8y ago
I disagree with a number of points in this article. "Now, we live in an age in which the intangible haze of soft-sell is no longer necessary, and the battle for market share comes down to the raw strength of your product. “The sun has
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by inthewoods 8y ago
I'm curious what percentage of the interchange rate they could get from the bank that issues the card - anyone have any insight or experience in this?
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Divvy raises a $35M Series B led by Insight Venture Partners(forbes.com)
2 points by inthewoods 8y ago|1 comments
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by inthewoods 8y ago
We don't know, as far as I can tell, if the prior CEO took money off the table during prior funding rounds. So he might have made some money. Happy to be corrected if someone is in the know or has a reference, but it's pretty comm
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by inthewoods 8y ago
I wonder if they are doing this because a bunch of people have requested a refund on the first round of Model 3 orders.
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by inthewoods 8y ago
Yes they're also hedging their bets by getting distribution via Xfinity - I can watch Netflix through my Comcast cable box. This essentially reduces them to a "channel" ala HBO (albeit a deep channel).
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by inthewoods 8y ago
And yet there are companies that are starting to make money from these things. Maybe this is a classic "can't take new tech and apply old business model" kind of thing. https://www.theinformation.com/articles&
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by inthewoods 8y ago
I think there is a huge discoverability problem created by the limitations of these devices. Because we don't believe it can understand anything we say, we instead limit our vocabulary and interactions to what we are confident they wil
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by inthewoods 8y ago
If by fail we mean "doesn't make any money", I think one has to look at Sun and Java as an example of a great technology where the creator of it couldn't make a substantial amount of money.
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by inthewoods 8y ago
That's sort of the crux of the startup I work at - www.gamalon.com
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Gamalon scores $20M led by Intel Capital for new AI(techcrunch.com)
3 points by inthewoods 8y ago|0 comments
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by inthewoods 8y ago
I'm really curious about one thing: what do they need or plan to do with over a $1 billion?
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by inthewoods 8y ago
Because the designer isn’t Paul Rand. You earn the privilege through having tremendous success. Most designers simply can’t do that.
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by inthewoods 9y ago
Schedule your todo list on your calendar. Identify the tasks you want to complete for the day or week, and block out time on your calendar for each task.
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by inthewoods 9y ago
Feels to me a bit like Filemaker Pro! Other than that, isn't their real competition Quickbase?
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by inthewoods 9y ago
If Amazon wanted to move into Asset Management, I think they'd have to show financial experience/competence first for the trust to be there. Wouldn't it make more sense for them to open a bank first?
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by inthewoods 9y ago
Agreed on tough sell - I just don't see enough value in Paper to make it worth it. Same is true for Quip by the way.
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by inthewoods 9y ago
My team has been using https://jupyter.org/ for this purpose.
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by inthewoods 9y ago
Do you use G-Suite or O365 alongside it? I don't see significant improvement over a Google Doc.
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by inthewoods 9y ago
Paper is interesting but boy have they missed the opportunity so far imho. Paper doesn't come close to what Quip has been able to do, and they failed to capitalize on email. My impression, right or wrong, is that they are very slow at
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by inthewoods 9y ago
Quip is a pretty interesting take on this.
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by inthewoods 9y ago
Horrible to see that the Republican concept of "draining the swamp" apparently starts with teachers.
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by inthewoods 9y ago
A human can provide guidance to the system and edit models. As to whether it “thinks like a human” I think that’s always a dangerous and loaded statement - but what we believe is that a Bayesian probabilistic approach is closer to the way h
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by inthewoods 9y ago
There are groups and companies exploring probabilistic programming as an alternative to CNN and other deep learning techniques. Gamalon (www.gamalon.com) combines human and machine learning to provide more accurate results while requiring m
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by inthewoods 9y ago
Seems like pure luck with these guys - they didn’t seem to understand that the issue was just a very badly designed financial product that was designed to go to zero. Kudos to them for the win.
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by inthewoods 9y ago
Always the dumbest part of their business model - reward switchers and screw your customer base unless they threaten to leave, then give them the same deal (maybe).
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by inthewoods 9y ago
Waiting for this to hit other costal areas. Can’t imagine how much it would cost to empty out Cape Cod if required
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by inthewoods 9y ago
The big winner in this would seem, to me, to be Roku - one of those rare cases where being independent actually helps.

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