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by marcus 19y ago
Next time when you ask for feedback for a site that requires registration, please provide a few demo logins we can play with.
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by marcus 19y ago
Hopefully I'm doing it for money, but I'd do it even if I knew I'll never see a dime out it. I have plans on monetizing it, right now doing a test run with a medical CAD software provider (Computer Assisted Diagnosis) to improve their resul
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by marcus 19y ago
Self funded & enjoying it. Doing pure research on a field that fascinates me. plus no VC funds anything in this field today. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
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by marcus 19y ago
The problem is they aren't worth training, the best trained PHB is still a lot less enjoyable to work for, than working for yourself with your friends on a startup you love.
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by marcus 19y ago
Didn't know they used collaborative filtering, I thought they just used it to rank sites. If you are right they might be worth investigating.
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by marcus 19y ago
Ouch that rings a bell, the only thing I hated more back in my days in the slave mines were managers who insisted something wasn't possible without understanding it. I ended up only pitching ideas after I completed a prototype otherwise the
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by marcus 19y ago
What does the word "fail" mean?
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by marcus 19y ago
micro-email is known as SMS
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by marcus 19y ago
Up modded both for merit and for making Greenspun a verb.
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by marcus 19y ago
Not that I agree with him, but what exactly can't be done on desktop? Everything you can do in a browser can be done in a desktop application because the browser is a desktop application. You might argue that it would be easier to develop a
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by marcus 19y ago
I wish I could play with their technology, too bad Google is hoarding it.
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by marcus 19y ago
The board can decide to put the decision to the general assembly of stock holders and in that, the preferred shares will get more votes and stop the decision. Shareholders will have no legal recurse to take, as they we're fully informed of
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by marcus 19y ago
The problem is I'm not sure the 2 requirements can be mixed, are we sure the government wants a fair and secure election? They are certainly working very hard to hack the system from within (redistricting for example), that we can't really
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by marcus 19y ago
The only problem is that South Korea will rule the world - StarCraft is the national sport.
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by marcus 19y ago
Yes the NIH is a major source of funding for pharma, although not as big as you think, medical investigation includes a lot that is not pharmaceutical research The me-too phenomena is a problem but only because of two factors, pressure by p
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by marcus 19y ago
For this deal to have any kind of upside for Microsoft, they need to focus their energies on combining their search technologies and their AdWords technology and ignore everything else, let the existing Yahoo org run it. Don't waste your ef
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by marcus 19y ago
Get your stats right, do your research before you comment. Pharmaceutical research in the US 2005 34.8B USD federal funds 41M USD. Thats less than 0.12%. http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf07335/
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by marcus 19y ago
In a way I understand trying to apply the algorithm manually for each client is wasteful, negotiation with each client is tiring especially when its with a 7B company. I'm thinking about using the idea I got of building a web-service around
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by marcus 19y ago
I didn't say you would only have to describe one picture. Make it 16 pictures and you got 1/64k to succeed.
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by marcus 19y ago
Yes typing a short URL is relatively easy in current phones. But 2D bar codes allow you to make each URL very long and contain a ton of other information. Which can be immensely useful for tracking the effectiveness of each print ad and eac
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by marcus 19y ago
Doing CAD - Computer Assisted Diagnosis - working on improving early cancer detection in Mammography.
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by marcus 19y ago
You are confusing two different tasks, identifying a person out of a small comparison group is relatively easy - just deconstruct the face & compare certain facial features. There was a ton of research on the subject and even some worki
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by marcus 19y ago
I'd take you on that bet. Write the system and I'll write the solver. I drink Guinness :) A better system would be to ask the user to identify the gender of a person based on an image to tell whether the picture is of a dog or of a cat and
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by marcus 19y ago
Assuming you know/represent your users, if you are building something just for yourself and don't care if someone else likes it, great. But if your goal is getting users to use something, build a company around it, ask them & follow the
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by marcus 19y ago
You shouldn't get offended by the term misleading, we all see a ton of posts on different sites every day, and maintaining the titles accuracy can help us as readers save our brain cycles and help decide which articles to read. For example
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by marcus 19y ago
Exactly branding was our marketing department go-to excuse for ROI negative campaigns. We ended up trying to measure the branding by tracking users who came to our site directly by typing the url into the address bar, or who googled our web
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by marcus 19y ago
The problem was the clients support staff had root access on all the machines.
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by marcus 19y ago
Just as important as getting traffic is converting it and retaining it, track your conversion statistics along each step of the way, find your major pitfalls and fix them. Split users randomly so they see different landing pages for example
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by marcus 19y ago
We actually encrypted the code of dangerous tools (we wrote in Perl back then) like this one with a password so the customers (telecoms) tech people, who were mostly clueless, wouldn't be able to play around with our tools. The program was
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by marcus 19y ago
Exactly even if no ad network works on non permanent domains they'll still try to gauge domain value by number of visitors in the five day period. The solution isn't even to abolish it, just make sure even a test domain costs something, ev

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