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by jpwagner 17y ago
Here are some thoughts: First one to hit Hamming distance of 5. Lowest average Hamming distance over top n trials. Most trials in x hours. ...
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by jpwagner 17y ago
Oh...awesome passage: DAWKINS: If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a medieval peasant, a radio would have seemed like a miracle. All kinds of things may ha
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by jpwagner 17y ago
Dawkins is so thick-headed. He has a bias about how believers think, and applies this to all of his arguments. Check out this passage from page 6: DAWKINS: There could be something incredibly grand and incomprehensible and beyond our
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by jpwagner 17y ago
Rule 5 from the contest: "5. In the case of a tied Hamming distance (entirely possible), the winner will be chosen by lottery among people with the best distance" This says: don't take me seriously. Hopefully for their
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by jpwagner 17y ago
This article paints it like the purge is whimsical. VC's are in it for the money. Mediocre CEO's aren't good for business. A good CEO way outweighs nepotism.
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by jpwagner 17y ago
The reason the article exists is that the "holy grail" is tedious.
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by jpwagner 17y ago
From wikipedia: "On April 20, 2009, Sun and Oracle Corporation announced that they entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun for $7.4 billion. The deal is still pending, with no date yet given for its completio
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by jpwagner 17y ago
I thought Palm specifically said they would not filter out apps based on content. [source needed]
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by jpwagner 17y ago
Anyone able to break 10 using the example they gave? "I am not a big believer in fortune telling"
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by jpwagner 17y ago
This response is solid, however I don't think the OP suggested that "True science is political." (Although it's hard to tell when people don't express themselves clearly.) There have been many scientists to have admitted that they have kept
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by jpwagner 17y ago
noun: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/FAD adj, def2: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/revolutionary
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by jpwagner 17y ago
That is an absurd comparison. Twitter series A: July, 2007 Pandora series A: March, 2000 (!) Everyone's thought of radio. Although, no one thought to brute force categorization. I'm a daily user today, I fully expect to look back on pa
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by jpwagner 17y ago
The "new deal" meaning that historically it's been 70%. Base projections on past data. "They are going to be profitable" sounds great, but isn't great until it happens. (And spare everyone the attitude please.) The reason I bring up "r
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by jpwagner 17y ago
Don't get me wrong, I'm fond of Pandora's service, but isn't it strange that our society loves to throw money at sinking ships. Pandora has now been funded over $55MM and cannot possibly be profitable if it boasts 70% of it's revenue goes t
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by jpwagner 17y ago
if (P(success of startup) * (worth of startup success to you ) > P(success with gf) * (worth of gf to you)) { goto startup; } if (P(success of startup) * (worth of startup success to you ) < P(success with gf) * (worth of
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by jpwagner 17y ago
Interesting statistic. What might be interesting would be to categorize the apps and remove redundancies and see how much it would cost to gain all of the functionality of the collection of iphone apps. Probably 10-20% of the total cost.
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by jpwagner 17y ago
since the last line is 31415 That would be brute force,,,
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by jpwagner 17y ago
it jumps out right away that: 1+1+1+1+1 = 5 2+2+2+2+2 = 10 and 1+0 = 1 3+3+3+3+3 = 15 and 1+5 = 6 (whenever it's sums of digits you think mod 9) since there are 5 numbers, the sum of the coefficients mod 9 = 5 (ie, 5, 14, 23...) that's as f
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by jpwagner 17y ago
If [fantastic external condition to allow me to use cliche for which I cannot think of more appropriate alternative], [cliche].
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by jpwagner 17y ago
Why even mention these skills if you look at the right columns and see he has almost no interest in coding? Great point. In my comment I was suggesting that the idea was inspiring to personally reuse or suggest :)
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by jpwagner 17y ago
Just throwing this out there: is it the first time a calculation based on string theory has been published in Science because the string theory community prefers arXiv?
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by jpwagner 17y ago
I love the concept, but... I dislike the big chart on the top left. It's difficult to read and there's the disorganized star array underneath that gives me a headache. (Not to mention the content, are you applying to grad school?) (The ta
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by jpwagner 17y ago
Seems silly to suppose that the rationale is to protect against all links being the same? Shouldn't the same discussion be merged? (BTW, if you post an exact duplicate link, you will be forwarded to the original rather than actually posting
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Ask HN: Why kill duplicate discussions?
1 points by jpwagner 17y ago|4 comments
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by jpwagner 17y ago
Typically a link with no comment should present an obvious answer. A link to an outdated update with a vague answer hardly qualifies. Thanks for the update, PG.
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(Where/When)'s Startup School 2009?(startupschool.org)
15 points by jpwagner 17y ago|3 comments
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by jpwagner 17y ago
One of the many points the author is wrong about. Luckily, his arguments weren't based on any facts or research (but likely hearsay of grad students of the late 90s.)
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by jpwagner 17y ago
By "true value" I mean that the product creator has a positive ROI on his time, and the product consumer has a positive ROI on his money. This does not mean that the user must be the buyer. A clear example is a productivity tool (product A
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by jpwagner 17y ago
Granted I'm sure your comment is facetious, but I do want to point out that it's a bit of a naive view. The best (outside of unethical methods) way of making money is to generate true value for a customer and allow a medium for that custome
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by jpwagner 17y ago
Not agreeing or disagreeing with OP, but ramen profitibility sucks if your life sucks...

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