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Acute Wiiitis
(content.nejm.org)
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EntityCube - An entity search and summarization engine
(entitycube.research.microsoft.com)
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First of all, the electrical grid ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_grid ) is by this point a pretty well hardened and redundant infrastructure in major metropolitan areas. I do think that for startps and smaller companies, receivin
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Sorry for not making it more clear, but I did not mean to suggest that is merely a binary option. Yes, firms can co-locate their equipment in other firms DCs but its not a silver bullet either. You still run up heavy costs associated with r
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While electricity is pretty much fungible, data is not. Imagine there exist two companies who are competitors, A and B. Now company A outsources its data with a third party service. When company A managed its own hardware infrastructure it
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I do believe that we will see more and more companies go without their own physical data center footprints and will rely on a more fluid, "cloud" infrastructure. The initial costs associated with building a data center seem enormous. The ma
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The Microsofting of Apple?
(online.wsj.com)
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Start-Up IPOs Go Elsewhere
(online.wsj.com)
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US appoints Howard Schmidt as cybersecurity chief
(news.bbc.co.uk)
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Kleiner Perkins Joins the Private Sale Rush
(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Great point. I can imagine how "Bob" must feel. But execution on the idea is the most important thing. Until you've created version 1, you're still at the theoretical stage. And while in theory you may see your company being worth (m|b)illi
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The Google Online Marketing Challenge
(google.com)
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I know that some of the larger operations get live market data from Bloomberg and Reuters. You may want to take a look at https://loginabout.reuters.com/Home/RMDS.aspx although I have no idea how much it costs.
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I read The Ascent of Money, by Niall Ferguson over the summer and I am reminded of a passage discussing Argentina: "So successful did Argentina's default prove (economic growth has since surged while bond spreads are back in the 300-500 bas
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Pi calculus
(en.wikipedia.org)
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One word: bioplastics
(web.mit.edu)
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I would tend to agree, and for those interested in this type of skill I think its worth checking out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem
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A Cheap Nest for Fledgling Firms
(nytimes.com)
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I don't think its a necessarily question of your business acumen. Since the VC has a strong technical background (M.S. in CS), I would guess that they would probably be more interested in the course of a conversation in the "intellectual" /
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All About Monads
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Tilera Taunts Intel With a 100-Core Chip
(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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You and Your Research
(chris-lott.org)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescoping_series
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Web Alphabet Set to Change
(online.wsj.com)
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Michael Vanier: LFM and LFSP
(paulgraham.com)
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Rendering Fonts in Today’s Browsers
(blog.typekit.com)
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Why do the images from IBEX take 6 months to be composed?
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A new dimension for genome studies
(web.mit.edu)
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MIT Professor explains OLEDs using a pickle [video]
(bitstream.soundandvisionmag.com)
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O'Reilly History of Programming Languages Poster [pdf]
(oreilly.com)
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