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by laxatives 8y ago
Just for some context, the author wrote an autobiography called Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life that won a pulitzer prize and is a bible for a lot of surfers. Probably just about every (American) surfer with a college degree has read that bo
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by laxatives 8y ago
Its pretty unlikely to end in draw with blitz clocks, one player can usually gain a minuscule advantage and win on time if necessary.
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by laxatives 8y ago
This could have easily been 3-4 landmark papers, but instead its packed into one cogent idea. That common interview question about query autocomplete/sentence completion? Shannon solved it and demonstrates it in this paper, almost a de
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by laxatives 8y ago
There's a very strong correlation to Uber/Lyft in the industry. Both are investing heavily in companies like Bird to capture the last mile of transportation. Acquiring companies like Bird that help with that are opportunities to u
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by laxatives 8y ago
Its the New Yorker -- every article they write reads they like they get paid by the word.
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by laxatives 8y ago
Google's AI Research challenges are so technically advanced, they can only be adequately described by their leading marketing experts.
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by laxatives 9y ago
Do you keep SIM cards after each trip? Seems like a hassle having 15 phone numbers to track, unless you're fully committed to being on Google Voice or something similar. Why not just pick up a new SIM each time you travel? Or just pay
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by laxatives 9y ago
You do it. A good chunk of that is copying an alraedy existing product.
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by laxatives 9y ago
Probably a significant chunk of the world's economy is from taking an already existing product and making it more accessible.
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by laxatives 9y ago
String Theory is one of my favorite essays of all time. Discusses the incredible gap between journeymen, low-ranked tennis pro's and the elite players in both ability and quality of life, as well as the gap between journeymen and highl
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by laxatives 9y ago
That's pre Bitcoin inflation. Its probably valued over a billion USD now, assuming they kept a decent chunk of the BTC in BTC.
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by laxatives 9y ago
Its a little disappointing to see that half of the comments are people defending their actions to no one in particular, justifying why they act like a jerk but aren't necessarily a jerk. Its not like being a jerk/sweetheart is som
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by laxatives 9y ago
A professor of mathematics noticed that his kitchen sink at his home leaked. He called a plumber. The plumber came the next day and sealed a few screws, and everything was working as before. The professor was delighted. However, when the pl
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by laxatives 9y ago
There must be some incredible data being mined by Amazon via Whole Foods. At the Whole Foods in Palo Alto, there seems to be an elaborate pricing experiment in the ice cream department. Entire brands (Talenti) are dropped in price 70%. Othe
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by laxatives 9y ago
> The Breitmans had also hired Strange Brew Strategies, a U.S. communications company, to promote their project, and Reuters wrote a news story on May 5 about Draper’s involvement. > In pitching the story to Reuters, John O‘Brien, a p
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by laxatives 9y ago
> They claim they had a large team working on the project for 4-5 years full-time. https://www.tezos.com/static/papers/Tezos_Overview.pdf cites development began in 2014 and with a full staff of 10 core develop
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by laxatives 9y ago
They have $200M because people donated. The ICO is described as a fundraiser, not an investment, because it reduces liability and opportunity for government intervention. In exchange for "donation" you get XTZ. Presumably, you exp
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by laxatives 9y ago
I had been following Tezos closely since November and was really excited about the ICO. But it became incredibly apparent that the Breitmans were dishonest. Firstly, the compensation structure was ludicrous. Many people were upset about an
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by laxatives 9y ago
100% the objective is get the most out of experts given the opportunity. Its completely unreasonable to be an expert in everything. But it can be difficult to engage an expert if they aren't there to talk shop. Having the right framewo
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by laxatives 9y ago
Yeah I guess that's fair. I guess my point is that when you meet that expert, your contribution to the conversation is typically going to be blurting out <pharoah-name> and <pyramid-name> because thats all you remember from
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by laxatives 9y ago
Yes, I agree. Everything is instant gratification. Certainly there are diminishing returns to wanting to mastering a particular subject completely and maybe it is better to be merely "good" at a number of things, but its not reall
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by laxatives 9y ago
On the flip side, this approach to learning means you know next to nothing beyond the dozen first bits of terminology or buzzwords for each new topic, much less the concepts. The moment you finally meet someone interested in discussing one
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by laxatives 9y ago
Highly recommend Tensorflow for anything embedding related. The Tensorboard UI alone is enough make the switch worthwhile, unless you can develop a similar interface. Tensorboard's graph UI is very handy for debugging/presenting a
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Holographic Embeddings for Graph Completion in Tensorflow(github.com)
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by laxatives 9y ago
Don't know why you feel so compelled to give your background while writing an anonymous comment on the internet. It only makes me suspect your argument doesn't hold up without some expectation to respect your authority. All the th
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by laxatives 9y ago
Author seems to lack an understanding of what constitutes an equation or a conditional.
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by laxatives 9y ago
For just about everyone, the best thing to do is shut the fuck up and do your job.
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by laxatives 9y ago
Is ProtonMail your only active email account?
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by laxatives 9y ago
Does this mean ProtonMail is more reliable? Would you recommend using ProtonMail?
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by laxatives 9y ago
Probably a large part of that is because they are much more permissive to bots/crawling than Google searches.

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