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by marciovm123 16y ago
Living like a king is more about power and prestige (both among other people) and less about physical comfort. Human beings are social creatures, not robots, and we are predisposed to care more about what the people around us think than wh
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by marciovm123 16y ago
This is referred to in behavioral economics as the "second-order free-rider problem", and is an active area of research, e.g. http://www.cirano.qc.ca/ee/ESA2005/papers/Kiyonari.pdf
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'Liquid Journals' Use the Web to Upend Scientific Peer Review(technologyreview.com)
7 points by marciovm123 16y ago|0 comments
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by marciovm123 16y ago
I have degrees from MIT and UC Berkeley. I can attest from experience that at such institutions, while there are indeed some professors who excel in both research and teaching, the vast majority are there because of the quality of their re
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by marciovm123 16y ago
The market cap is much more instructive to have in the title - price per share by itself carries no information.
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by marciovm123 16y ago
more like 1000s of millions. It's incredibly expensive to demonstrate safety and efficacy, and many promising candidates fail at the later stages (after 100s of millions already spent) when the response in humans is different from that of
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by marciovm123 16y ago
Well said. Another failing arises from just how complicated biology is, and how little we understand of it. Unlike in computer programming, in biology reliable layers of abstraction do not yet exist. The equivalent of changing one line
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by marciovm123 16y ago
can you elaborate?
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by marciovm123 16y ago
It's fairly likely that every life-form that currently exists in this planet has a common ancestor that self-assembled billions of years ago. Your genetic code is the result of a huge amount of cycles of copies (and mutations) of that comm
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by marciovm123 16y ago
It's easy to rag on academia, but keep in mind good stuff does come out of there. You know, like the internet?
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by marciovm123 16y ago
By that logic, what good was it for me to learn how to solve arbitrary math problems in 7th grade, if the real "what" that I'd need math for later was yet to be found? Developing skills in the context of an educational environment might no
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by marciovm123 16y ago
I was involved with planning a large, nationwide business plan competition (mitcep.org). Steve raises some very good points, and I've forwarded his post to the current leadership with the hopes that we can incorporate some of his advice to
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by marciovm123 17y ago
I think you confused P/E ratio - the E stands for earnings (profit), not revenues. Facebook's P/E ratio is almost certainly negative at this point, but they are growing so fast that P/E ratio is not a good way to predict their market cap.
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by marciovm123 17y ago
I had a statistics course at MIT where the professor would bring up one of the solutions to this problem at least once a week for the entire semester: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonferroni_correction
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by marciovm123 17y ago
Thanks, this service seems to be more for one time projects then for recruiting though. Is there anyone trying to replace/supplant resumes (not just upload them, like LinkedIn)?
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by marciovm123 17y ago
Exactly...my startup has some funding from a great seed program to work on this. Any suggestions on what a great social recruiting web app would look like?
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Scientists Embrace Openness(sciencecareers.sciencemag.org)
2 points by marciovm123 17y ago|0 comments
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by marciovm123 17y ago
Had that exact idea a few days ago...someone's going to try it, will be fun to see =). I think Chatroulette made everyone remember, oh, everyone has a webcam now.
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by marciovm123 17y ago
Shows you how vulnerable their platform is to spamming. Facebook managed to keep the spam down while MySpace was becoming spam-city only before they opened accounts to non-college students. Small is beautiful?
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by marciovm123 17y ago
Why I love HN: Instant quality feedback. I hope that doesn't die.
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by marciovm123 17y ago
Nice work-up by the OP. I think people are still in the mindset that the value produced by a journalist is in articles, period. I think there is more value to be created in the interaction between journalist and audience that the web makes
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by marciovm123 17y ago
My naive interpretation is that both of these situations involve assigning "intelligence" to a machine or system built by a human w/o said human's continued intervention. I'm thinking about the systems, not the rules within the systems. If
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by marciovm123 17y ago
The classic philosopher's version of this is the Chinese Room: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room My naive understanding is that the intelligence is not in the room or the book, but in the person who wrote the book.
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by marciovm123 17y ago
Perhaps this could work well with results based on publicly available data sets (like the Protein Data Bank at www.rcsb.org), but I'd be surprised if this isn't done already to a significant degree. Labs post programs (or their biological
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by marciovm123 17y ago
anonymous posts can very quickly change the atmosphere from thoughtful to spiteful, and it makes spamming/trolling much more difficult to stop. So you have to weigh those costs w/ the benefit of one fewer barrier to posting.
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Why news editors will become community moderators(marciovm.com)
2 points by marciovm123 17y ago|1 comments
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by marciovm123 17y ago
what's wrong with commenting on news stories? Isn't that what we do here?
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by marciovm123 17y ago
We're working on that. e-mail me if you'd like to talk =). -Marcio
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by marciovm123 17y ago
Sorry if I broke HN-etiquette, I'm rather new around here. My impression is that "Ask HN" questions call for more nuanced interplay, while links are intellectual free-for-alls where it's assumed that everyone (including, if not especially t
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by marciovm123 17y ago
any reason to hide that you're http://newslabs.com/ ? same phone number on both pages.

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