jayshahtx

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Writing a Book with No Money, Experience, or Publisher(jayshah.me)
1 points by jayshahtx 7y ago|0 comments
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What it’s like to be on the board of a Fortune 500 company(jayshah.me)
203 points by jayshahtx 9y ago|76 comments
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To fix traffic, change the roads not the drivers(jayshah.me)
4 points by jayshahtx 10y ago|0 comments
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by jayshahtx 11y ago
This is true, but in a lot of instances ignoring variable dependence still produces meaningful results. For example, Naive Bayes on text classification usually performs really well even though words occurrences are dependent on each other.
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by jayshahtx 11y ago
It's nice to see this make the headlines, I was at Microsoft M&A group in 2012 when the acquisition became public. Satya has received a lot of praise for the direction Microsoft has been going in, but I still feel that some of the
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Rap Lyrics, Feminism, Love, and Statistics(jayshah.me)
1 points by jayshahtx 11y ago|0 comments
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by jayshahtx 11y ago
I worked for a very early stage startup that ended up getting press from WSJ, TechCrunch, etc but I had no visibility into the process. Can someone who has received similar press comment on how they managed it? Is it similar to OP's ar
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by jayshahtx 11y ago
I agree with you, but when we are discussing "price", we are not discussing it as a function of profile. We are discussing it as a function of raw skill. If two people (one experienced and one in-experienced) were asked for a prop
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by jayshahtx 11y ago
> pass on the cheap, low-value projects. Hold out for the clients that have budgets and value your time. Every second you spend with clients that don’t have money and don’t value your time is another second you have wasted. I just finish
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Rap Lyric Generator (2009) [pdf](nlp.stanford.edu)
1 points by jayshahtx 11y ago|0 comments
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by jayshahtx 12y ago
Loved this and really like Madeon - also worth checking out the Daft Punk equivalent to this/very similar concept: http://www.najle.com/idaft/
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by jayshahtx 12y ago
This is an excellent article - many of my mentors have guided me not to pursue funding for as long as possible, until I'm cash flow positive, etc and its great to see a discussion on HN reinforcing this sentiment. In a day and age when
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Show HN: DJ your next party with text messages(github.com)
8 points by jayshahtx 12y ago|0 comments
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by jayshahtx 12y ago
This reminds me of a study I did on CEOs who came to speak to my university. I found that investing in a company if their CEO was visiting college campuses averaged an annual return of ~20%. The logic was that CEOs of poor performing compan
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by jayshahtx 12y ago
Hey Caser, Very interested in applying - are you still accepting applications? I saw the first trip starts this month.
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by jayshahtx 12y ago
This is very similar, if not the same, technology as Husk Power Systems. HPS had a lot of press around 5 years ago for going to villages in India which grew corn and burning their husk for power using tech from WWII. They were so successful
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by jayshahtx 12y ago
I think the most interesting datasets are within reach but require curation yourself. For example there are extremely powerful scraping libraries in just about every popular language today, not to mention APIs such as Twitter's. If you
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by jayshahtx 12y ago
SEEKING WORK Location: Austin, TX Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Temporarily Technologies: Full stack, Machine learning, data science, Angular, AWS, Google App Engine, Python Résumé/CV: www.linkedin.com/pub/jay-shah/30
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by jayshahtx 12y ago
Location: Austin, TX Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Temporarily Technologies: Machine learning, data science, Angular, AWS, Google App Engine, Python, (Full stack) Résumé/CV: www.linkedin.com/pub/jay-shah/
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by jayshahtx 12y ago
I've thought about this topic quite a bit, and I don't think the root emotion in many "mean" people is, well...meanness. I think it is a strong desire to control. This desire stems from the importance of managing executi
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by jayshahtx 12y ago
This caused the spinning wheel of death on my maxed out MBP...am I alone?
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by jayshahtx 12y ago
I wrote my senior thesis on a calendar assistant that achieves much of the functionality mentioned here (recommending times/places, auto updates, etc) and lost so much motivation just to the sheer amount of integration between parties&
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by jayshahtx 12y ago
Am I the only one who doesn't think $11M is really going to move the needle for SF OR AirBnB?
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by jayshahtx 12y ago
Location: Austin, TX Remote: Yes, have experience Willing to relocate: In Spring 2015, yes Technologies: machine learning/information retrieval methods, java, python, matlab Resume: http://linkd.in/1uo7yLq , www.jaysha
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by jayshahtx 12y ago
I found this comment to have an undertone of ignorance. 1) Implying a cluster of 54 countries are all homogeneous, have poor health standard, etc 2) "Struggles to provide any clean water to humans at all" - this is much more heres
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Lawsuit: Female Tinder Exec Called 'W****' In Front Of CEO(huffingtonpost.com)
2 points by jayshahtx 12y ago|0 comments
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by jayshahtx 12y ago
What a great website with an intuitive product. Cherry on top is the extremely relevant blog post which is A) somewhat interesting B) obviously connected to their product C) not regurgitated industry information. This might not go viral, bu
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by jayshahtx 12y ago
Side note: I'm always a little bothered when people attribute something from "Africa". Africa has 54 countries, c'mon people
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by jayshahtx 12y ago
I'm always surprised by Amazon's lack of fanfare. Even for such a huge release, their product page is literally the same as that of something as random as a blanket
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by jayshahtx 12y ago
Link-bait is the most frustrating trend on the internet. I read somewhere when outlets such as NYTimes were interviewed on their perception of BuzzFeed. The overwhelming response was "we're not worried at all, BuzzFeed has not tak

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