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by jboggan 9y ago
The goal is to get something that's going to extend that six months, whether it is convincing investors to contribute to your venture or convincing customers to give you a dollar. Ideally you can do both, but if you can't do eithe
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First time: 3 months Second time: 5 months I am coming up to the end of my personal runway on this current venture but I raised some money from friends and family and I'm able to pay myself a little bit now! Meanwhile I know people who
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by jboggan 9y ago
As a Yellow Jacket myself I am somewhat amused that they managed to translate the stress and fatigue of the Georgia Tech experience into the online course. In a perverse way I think that means the program is as valuable as it purports to be
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by jboggan 9y ago
Search results by definition are quite biased - it's returning an ordered list not an unordered set. Googlers' personal biases can and do enter into those results, often in a subtle way where they feel they are being (from their p
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A lot of survivor bias among you and your friend group I would think. I did code in all my free time back in Georgia but I had no CS degree and I had never held a programming job. There were a lot of things that I didn't know I didn&#x
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Oh I agree, I couldn't get anywhere near the salary, but if I wanted to find a programming job back home in Athens I could swing it. I would probably have to learn COBOL though, no joke. And I'm in Santa Monica now, and my salary
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by jboggan 9y ago
It's really not easy to uproot and move from an economically depressed area to an active metropolis. I've done it (Athens, GA to San Francisco in late 2012) and it was incredibly expensive and involved a large amount of personal c
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by jboggan 9y ago
Thanks, this makes a lot more sense, my impression from the post was that this was a normal CS course.
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I didn't come off of this article feeling very impressed with Stanford's CS department. Someone with contextual knowledge please explain why I am wrong. I've had my own calculus / discrete math / math for bio course
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Software will eat programming jobs.
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But seriously, what are they going to do with that much money? How many developers do they actually need to scale up and what milestones are they trying to hit?
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This is great, I was toying with this kind of image recognition a year or two ago and I am impressed with this. Have you considered doing other common transformations like various Instagram filters and compression loss? If you had those abi
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Recently left Google and I can confirm, Memegen is real and draws significant resources to operate.
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No, I don't think so. People tend to over-emphasize the latest ML techniques when the greatest improvements right now come from better and cleaner data sets. I am interested in this sort of thing because we were just about to try and b
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Probably Javascript.
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Quite truthful. When I left Google at the end of March to start my own thing a lot of folks came out of the woodwork telling me about their plans, how they've saved up $xxx,xxx to start their app and leave the company, etc. I visit fri
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by jboggan 9y ago
3 years ago I tried to launch my Bitcoin options trading platform (or at least the paper-trading version of it) with a Show HN post which did briefly reach the front page. I got 0 signups and mostly a lot of comments about how the landing p
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by jboggan 9y ago
"Modern Times" and "The Birth of the Modern" by Paul Johnson which cover world history from 1919-1989 and 1815-1830 respectively. Amazing histories written in a breadth and exploratory depth that illuminate so much of th
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by jboggan 9y ago
I'm going to guess that the City Council will radically overestimate the revenue this tax will bring in because they will fail to consider the reaction once again: http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics&
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by jboggan 9y ago
This is a really good point against leaving Google to create a startup. At the same time, people were frustrated that Area 120 was only open to folks in Mountain View. Maybe that changed for future classes but I know it was an issue with th
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Imagine there's a new accelerator called ZD. You have a new product idea, a prototype and a team. Instead of investing money for a few percent of the company, helping to refine your product market fit, and introducing you to investors
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The "Perf" process currently leads to some perverse incentives. I think part of the removal of Perf is to avoid those incentives for the more entrepreneurial efforts while also not penalizing Googlers that choose to work on those
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Do you want to build Pied Piper or Nucleus?
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by jboggan 9y ago
Do you want more messaging apps? This is how you get more messaging apps. The main appeal for Googlers is that participating in Area 120 gets you out of doing Perf for an entire cycle. That's actually pretty huge. When this was first u
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It's interesting to trace the evolution of Calvinism in the United States. There's an argument to be made that Calvinism minus the divinity of Christ equals modern liberalism and the liberal market economy. A lot of the same attit
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But if your startup is developing conversational AI? Wouldn't that qualify? Do you actually have to be publishing? Where's the dividing line in your opinion?
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Please expound, I feel like I understand some of the risks but am curious to hear your objections. I personally would prefer bootstrapping but I think there are times when a market is growing quickly and you don't want to be left on th
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3 months ago doing AngularJS for Google - absolutely not. Today doing legal paperwork for my new startup while an ML model trains in the background - absolutely yes. Personally I've figured out that the two biggest things for me are cr
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Other than unbreaking the feature I use most often? Haha, I think the new versions of TensorBoard and the SavedModel CLI are great for getting a better sense of what is going on under the hood. But I'm just generally excited by the fra
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I really want to map these to a MIDI controller

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