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by jonmc12 9y ago
https://www.axios.com/tim-draper-keeps-defending-theranos-15... "Venture capitalist Tim Draper, an old family friend of Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes, who led an early $1 million investment into the company
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Stephen Hawking: The Beginning of Time(hawking.org.uk)
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This article is not informative. It leans on an MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research study, with no publicly described methodology and a hidden "full" report. Its a waste of time for everyone imo. This type of
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> there are interesting methods being developed in this space Would you mind posting any relevant links? Is there general agreement in the field that more data is the solution?
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The author's implied premise that a smile is a universal form of emotional expression vs a cultural adaptation was presented in the Darwin paper he cited: "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals". Interestingly, a
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Agree on subscriptions. Audible is employing 2 dark patterns: carnival currency (credits), and the free trial / hidden cancel button. I'm not sure I understand why. I believe there is a recent (2017) class action lawsuit regard
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In mammals, epigenetic information is needed from both parents. Its thought that this epigenetic information is kind of a negotiation between the survival/growth traits of male DNA, and the resource strain put on the female during emb
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Is Evolutionary Science Due for a Major Overhaul?(aeon.co)
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> PS. This makes me wonder whether and to what degree the structure of the brain's connectome might be a necessary prior for AGI. I've seen an analogy in hardware that is potentially interesting to explore. There is a technique
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Interpreting Deep Neural Networks with SVCCA(research.googleblog.com)
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Interpreting article, I think SB investment would be $6.72B (14% of $48B) plus $1B at $69B valuation. $7.72B total. btw, $2.94B = $6.72B * (69/48) - $6.72B --> I believe thats SB's nominal gain on paper the minute the deal clo
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Robert Reich's "Saving Capitalism" documentary on Netflix does a pretty good job to answer this question. TLDR; Wall Street is part of an industrial/political system that extols "free market" capitalism, public
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Belief systems. When something is not in your sensory environment, and not in your experiential history, you are relying on a belief of what might happen - like, will our crops get rain next week? To illustrate, you might enjoy Joseph Henr
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Reading the study ( https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2763720 ) I'm amazed it did not consider parental income. Not only does parental income correlate strongly to child income as adults, but also
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Uber ICO? Please speculate on possibilities and help the press to collect data points so they can mash together 2 of their favorite narratives. Bonus points for looping in autonomous vehicles.
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Related - "Deliberate Practice and Performance in Music, Games, Sports, Education, and Professions: A Meta-Analysis" - http://scottbarrykaufman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Macn... Gives some
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by jonmc12 9y ago
For more on cultural evolution and the impact on evolution of our brain, check out Joseph Henrich's "The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution". There are many youtube videos of the author discussing
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Recently I found TimeTree ( http://www.timetree.org/ ). The tool produces both timelines and timetrees (ancestry) of taxonomies. Both tools provide a nice context of the evolutionary environment. If you click through enoug
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by jonmc12 9y ago
Interesting the bird analogy again - “airplanes don’t flap their wings” was in a recent article by Jeff Hawkins describing Numenta's approach ( http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/what-intelligent... ).
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I recently ran across "Tigers, Lions and Humans: History of Rivalry, Conflict, Reverence and Love". http://www.josephjordania.com/files/35-TIGERS-LIONS-AND-HUMA... The book talks, in depth, about the converg
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Carbon dioxide removal(en.wikipedia.org)
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The "Gulag Archipelago" reference got me googling: http://seansrussiablog.org/2013/05/11/us-prison-industrial-c... . Apparently, if you compare apples to apples, in 1953 the USSR period had more lik
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Might point him towards Propel(x) ( https://www.propelx.com/ ). Its a newer syndicate model marketplace that focuses on "deep tech" investment. The team is knowledgable / motivated, and working to attract ang
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It does seem like Jensen was key in evangelizing ideas that tied executive compensation to stock performance. This even led to a 1993 IRS rule [1]. Here "value" was clearly shareholder value; the dollar value of stock. Then, in
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Thats not the argument at all. In the attached paper, the author suggested validating driverless vehicle safety within constrained environments, like using beacons on roads. You make an argument like you have a hammer in your hand and you
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Am I the only one feeling the press + big tech narrative of "driverless vehicles = safety" is way ahead of itself? OK, "driver error is blamed for 94% of crashes", but what is the validation strategy to show where drive
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Uber investor, Bill Gurley: 25 yrs for lvl 4/5 autonomous vehicles in US cities(cnbc.com)
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When OpenAI was announced, they mentioned having $1B in funding. Why the additional $30M?
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"hormesis" is the idea that a stressful thing in small amounts can often have a positive effect. http://gettingstronger.org/ is an excellent website on hormesis applied to a bunch of common problems (eg. improvin
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by jonmc12 10y ago
Interesting excerpt from the referenced self-monitoring paper: "Stated otherwise, the theory of self-monitoring concerns differences in the extent to which people value, create, cultivate, and project social images and public appearan

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