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by ippisl 15y ago
And similar , there's also online swapping for baby/children clothes/toys available. see thredup.com .
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by ippisl 15y ago
As much as i like you vision , there are a few problems with it: 1. The basics: housing , transportation , healthcare ,education haven't become much cheaper. And i think it's mostly a question of regulation and politics(big politics or indu
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by ippisl 15y ago
>>Technology has always disrupted the low end of the workforce. I'm not sure that's true. The reason is underemployment[1]. when technology disrupts the jobs of educated people, they have options to find jobs that require lower educ
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by ippisl 15y ago
I think hangout use statistics would be really interesting. anybody got any idea/estimate about those ?
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by ippisl 15y ago
But when you have many tools and building blocks , the problem doesn't require many intelligent decisions anymore , and isn't "big" by the definition given by the parent thread.
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by ippisl 15y ago
It's pretty similar to b2b marketplaces . http://webbiquity.com/random/b2b-marketplaces-a-new-breed-ta...
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by ippisl 15y ago
I think that it's mostly a symptom of machines replacing humans. for example , in the past we needed humans to connect us to each other so we can collaborate. now we have the forums , search , etc... Taking this trend to it's extreme , whe
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by ippisl 15y ago
There's a similar question in stack overflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/203288/how-does-ruby-on-r... The top answer give book recommendations and tools to understand rails.
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by ippisl 15y ago
If you look at robotics(which is probably a game changing field as the PC or more), Boston is a big robotics cluster , Pittsburgh is another. silicon valley is definitely not a robotics leader.
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You can't compare it this way. Xerox Parc and DARPA are research organizations. NASA is a research and development organization. they products that are used in real life. Usually development and deployment cost much more than pure research.
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by ippisl 15y ago
I think video chat isn't done exactly right , so it hasn't become very popular. You see this in many responses to google+'s group video chat. many say it's done right and want to use it. Another hint is group telepresence for businesses. it
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Dan Ariely:How online companies trick you into buying more[pdf](dl.dropbox.com)
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Doesn't the reason you use visual representations in CAD, construction , aviation and layout is to be close to the domain ? i.e. visual objects. A second reason is that higher level languages for mechanical design hasn't been successful. my
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by ippisl 15y ago
from wikipedia[1]: Moving between quintiles is more frequent in the middle quintiles (2-4) than in the lowest and highest quintiles. Of those in one of the quintiles 2-4 in 1996, approximately 35% stayed in the same quintile; and approximat
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by ippisl 15y ago
Lee babuta "my story" page: http://zenhabits.net/my-story/ On the other hand , if you read sebastian's page, you get the impression of a guy that talks a lot("I’ve been working and training to be the most skilled strategist of our era.")
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Computers take medical histories better than doctors.(blogs.bmj.com)
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by ippisl 15y ago
I don't think designing a reasonable pedagogical foundation is the problem for india's public schools. you can just copy the one from a decent private school. But can you teach it to a million teachers ? can you guarantee they will use it?
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by ippisl 15y ago
How complex is this technology ? Is it possible to offer it via simple api, useful by someone without knowledge in machine learning , where you give it data to train , and you get get a trained algorithm that can do perception stuff ?
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by ippisl 15y ago
If you want to build a huge , high quality education system, it better to start with lower quality , easier to scale solution and improve it, than start with the standard education system. why ? because the rate of improvement of the cheape
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by ippisl 15y ago
I was talking about khan as an example. if you want totaly automated self learning , look for the "hole in the wall" education experiments. they sucseeded. But i think khan academy can make the teacher job much easier, so maybe even no so
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by ippisl 15y ago
I think you overestimate the difficulty in "automating" education and providing it in india. children can learn pretty well using online video - khan academy has proven that, and khan academy is even building a complete interactive educati
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by ippisl 15y ago
The technique he uses is called deep learning. one startup is binatix.com.
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by ippisl 15y ago
simple ways : 1. use different phone numbers , and measure calls. 2. show the phone number/numbers only on a specific page , and measure conversions to that page. this is a reasonable approximation for calls, more complex: google "call tra
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by ippisl 15y ago
In the book "in the plex" , the author says that the first demos of google were really impressive both for vc's and users, and it went viral in stanford. that was when they were fighting to get hardware to crawl the web , so their speed wa
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by ippisl 15y ago
That also fits well with larry page's thinking. he likes big projects. he likes that even before google, so he probably likes that even more now.
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by ippisl 15y ago
http://www.amazon.com/Learned-Optimism-Change-Your-Mind/dp/1...
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Nothing is worth without some level of testing. this also applies for execution. But testing/evaluating an idea can be easier than full blown execution. and you can use it to estimate how likely your idea would succeed. And at this point yo
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by ippisl 15y ago
With increasing automation and crowd-sourcing of customer service, and automated interviewing becoming available to employers , and better computer vision(detecting emotions in live video , and it might be possible to detect lying automatic
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by ippisl 15y ago
Interesting . did it have the same impact to the rest of your class ?
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|It takes a big infrastructure to manage an eBook store. It also takes as big infrastructure to manage selling physical books. and the size of a book(900kb) is pretty close to the size of it's amazon product page. |Amazon already has built

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