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by jtraffic 9y ago
I think R is in the early days of its demand lifecycle. Wait a decade or two (maybe less) and R will get more hate. I'm surprised how fast Julia has advanced toward being a suitable replacement for R. It's just a matter of time
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by jtraffic 9y ago
This begged the question for me: "Is there a fire for AGI?" He gives one definition that people have used before, about unaided machines performing every task at least as well as humans. But if you dwell on it a while, I'm
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When to Startup(medium.com)
2 points by jtraffic 9y ago|0 comments
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by jtraffic 9y ago
This got me into a rabbit hole on Wikipedia about where all the peoples of Japan came from, and what makes the Ainu indigenous. If an indigenous people is the first to settle, not sure the Ainu are clear winners. Lots of dispute about ear
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The Future of Manufacturing(medium.com)
5 points by jtraffic 9y ago|0 comments
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Electric vehicles powered by fuel-cells get a second look(economist.com)
2 points by jtraffic 9y ago|0 comments
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by jtraffic 9y ago
This comes to mind: https://hackernoon.com/for-the-love-of-god-please-tell-me-wh...
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by jtraffic 9y ago
Or this: https://www.iconaircraft.com/home
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by jtraffic 9y ago
In my view, there are many insights like this to be had by physically studying product users a bit more. The startup community has built a strong habit of studying users before a new solution is adopted, but not as much after. The insi
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by jtraffic 9y ago
Photography seems to be one place where the exchange rate between better skills and better tech favors skills. I have a friend who makes rock documentaries and his boss will often rent an $8K camera. My friend sometimes shoots on a $500 DS
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by jtraffic 9y ago
Not the OP, but checking his HN profile turns this up: https://viaas.com/
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The Other Kind of Centaur: Human-Computer Hybrids(medium.com)
1 points by jtraffic 9y ago|0 comments
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by jtraffic 9y ago
It's an interesting anecdote , but makes conclusions about the aggregate . Give me almost any university, and with time I could probably find at least one story like this. I'm not saying it isn't true, just that this evide
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by jtraffic 9y ago
What explains why the females like what they like? Perhaps I'm just lost, but could it be that natural selection explains sexual preferences, which has a subsequent impact on evolution? > this “aesthetic” courtship, says Prum, crea
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by jtraffic 9y ago
Times nods to the fact that millennials are not as homogeneous as society thinks: > millennials, who, as it turns out, are not a monolithic generation Then, I feel they go right back to the attitude in a new context: > Yet millennial
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The One True Way to Innovate?(medium.com)
1 points by jtraffic 9y ago|0 comments
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by jtraffic 9y ago
For some reason I thought the runaway in temps will come from water vapor from melting permafrost, which is starting now. In other words, the CO2 ship has sailed, no?
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Alarm Didn’t Ring at Waymo Before Uber Was Sued for Theft(bloomberg.com)
2 points by jtraffic 9y ago|0 comments
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We’re Going to Need More Lithium(bloomberg.com)
1 points by jtraffic 9y ago|0 comments
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In Defense of Invaders (2015)(economist.com)
2 points by jtraffic 9y ago|0 comments
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by jtraffic 9y ago
There is an interesting interplay between stuff and space. I'm married and have two children (3 and 18 months) and we live in a two bedroom apartment. Whether I'm justified in wanting more space or not, I really, really do want
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Perceptions of Probability and Numbers(github.com)
1 points by jtraffic 9y ago|0 comments
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Accidentally Funny AI(medium.com)
2 points by jtraffic 9y ago|0 comments
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by jtraffic 9y ago
Weights are inversely proportional to the Alexa rank for each startup's website.
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Show HN: Idea Generator That Uses YC as Data(ycremix.com)
132 points by jtraffic 9y ago|40 comments
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by jtraffic 9y ago
I dislike this. I almost hate it, but it at least raises interesting questions. The reasoning is almost entirely post-hoc. He observes many successful people and their similarities and then claims "I have now told you how to succeed.
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by jtraffic 9y ago
I suspect that when Chomsky dies, a burst of new and valuable linguistics research will arrive. I'm not saying I hope he dies soon. However, I think his current impact on the field is probably negative. My theory derives from these
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by jtraffic 9y ago
Something I'll keep my eye on, for sure. In the meantime: It feels like you've reinvented much by writing stuff from scratch. spaCy is fast, has tons of features, commonly updated, free, trained on the Common Crawl corpus. Why n
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Ask HN: What costly inefficiency do you see at work?
43 points by jtraffic 9y ago|64 comments
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by jtraffic 9y ago
I wonder how this article would be different had it been written after Medium introduced its new funding model. For one thing, a bunch of those publications, like The Awl are no longer there.

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