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Can we know what animals are thinking?(medium.economist.com)
1 points by jtraffic 10y ago|0 comments
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Hindsight Bias and Innovation(medium.com)
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by jtraffic 10y ago
A desire to recreate great things from the past always comes with some hindsight bias. What we'd like is a dataset about hundreds of labs like PARC and what happened to them. Of course, we could never get it, so we have to work with
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Why everything is hackable(economist.com)
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by jtraffic 10y ago
Actually this is probably behind a paywall for most people. Here is a brief summary: http://www.livemint.com/Politics/bDNftOxyufek9X8mjFSYLP/Are-...
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The Productivity Advantage of Serial Entrepreneurs(nber.org)
2 points by jtraffic 10y ago|1 comments
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by jtraffic 10y ago
Ambiguous indeed. These concepts are so slippery because "humility" in the technical sense used in the research article is not necessarily the same "humility" as used in the vernacular. Nobody usually cares, but in thi
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by jtraffic 10y ago
Does this come across as oddly inconsistent to anyone else? "These big trends are not that hard to spot (they get talked and written about a lot), but they can be strangely hard for large organizations to embrace. We’re in the middle o
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by jtraffic 10y ago
I had a long conversation about this with my Dad yesterday. He is an attorney who spent years working in fairly large organizations. Now he works from home most of the time. I like how he explained his experience. He said that working fr
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Ideas vs. Execution: A False Dichotomy(medium.com)
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by jtraffic 10y ago
>I can't think of a single large Western consumer software company who can actually think like that I don't feel this is particularly novel, though perhaps it is to software companies (I don't know, honestly). But this id
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by jtraffic 10y ago
Yeah, I guess it is basically an incubator, except people wouldn't fully commit. My impression is that most incubators screen applicants for commitment, and that it's a really important component. I can't really provide har
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by jtraffic 10y ago
The time thing really resonates with me. I've had this crazy idea rolling around in my mind for a few months. It's basically a sabbatical for the private sector. I haven't devised a good model, but it's like: "we&#
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by jtraffic 10y ago
This is an interesting little service: https://www.twitteraudit.com "takes a random sample of 5000 Twitter followers for a user and calculates a score for each follower. This score is based on number of tweets, date of the
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by jtraffic 10y ago
Lightweight is awesome. I feel that the absolute most important next improvement is in managing spam and fake accounts. Things like Lite keep me from deleting my account. But with less spam, I'd probably use my account.
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by jtraffic 10y ago
Man alive, remind me to consult HN next time I'm in a situation like this (unlikely, I know). I admit I'm quite surprised at the level of detailed knowledge on this thread, particularly in this comment.
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by jtraffic 10y ago
The concept of Life Imitating Art isn't exactly about trying to make parts of Star Trek a reality, but I think it still applies here. Bezos probably would have been obsessed with space without Star Trek, but it still seems possible
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by jtraffic 10y ago
This is interesting in a world where all I ever hear is "ideas are meaningless, execution is everything." I get the same feeling often when reading papers. It feels like the abstract and first few paragraphs hold great promise an
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Data Mining “Manually”(medium.com)
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by jtraffic 10y ago
> Right now it seems pretty common to translate Bayesian experimental results sloppily into frequentist ones to get them past reviewers. This is interesting. I'm glad for a different perspective. I chalk this up to differences ac
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by jtraffic 10y ago
In my field the embrace of Bayesian methods seems to have come because of increases in computing power, rather than a decrease in "opposition."
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by jtraffic 10y ago
I totally agree here. Sometimes I've been frustrated at the lack of flexibility to use assignments in a self-directed way. I like the idea that you should "never waste a good deadline." I've always admired students wh
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by jtraffic 10y ago
Ok, admittedly my example was bad. However, the replies are all basically assurances of the form: "Don't worry, a human at Amazon made that decision, so it's ok." I'll repeat that ML is useful, and I'll add
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by jtraffic 10y ago
> At some point, a human is going to take a look. I recently saw a talk by Foster Provost, a big ML guy at NYU. The main points of his talk were that using fine-grained behavioral data (like browsing history) is better than demographics
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by jtraffic 10y ago
> Talking about stuff is pointless unless it leads to some action. True, but why do people do it so much? I think it's because meetings are indulgent in several ways: usually you aren't working hard in a meeting, you interact w
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by jtraffic 10y ago
If you're interested in this topic, I recommend "Nothing to Envy" as an excellent and illuminating book. It follows defectors mostly before they leave, but includes a portion afterward. Money struggles are discussed in deta
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by jtraffic 10y ago
Yeah, I love the examples too. Where do they come from? I think allowing users to submit code examples could dramatically increase the value. Maybe even microservices. The ideal (and perhaps impossible) version would look at my code struc
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by jtraffic 10y ago
I really did enjoy that. It reminded me of how I use R and then drop down to C++ when I need speed. This interpreter is analogous: use Julia and then go to APL when you want compact expression. Although, I'm not sure how advantageou
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That makes sense. Thanks.
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I see. Good answer.

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