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by marcus 19y ago
There will always be a drive to game the system, that is the greatest advantage of small communities like this one a lot less incentive to game it. But the problem is not exactly the same, Google still almost always gives the same results t
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by marcus 19y ago
What we need is better recommendations systems based on your past activity, instead of a monolith feed that is served to everyone. It will be more relevant, less prone to tampering and manipulation.
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by marcus 19y ago
If you take his idea for the CAD program and combine it with his ideas from the TED speech of using materials as code you might end up with something that you can digitally generate very complex 3D structures from very simple building block
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by marcus 19y ago
The seeds of Google's demise have been planted and it won't be killed my Microsoft or Yahoo, it will be by the hundreds of intelligent, entrepreneurial, fully vested ex-googlers that will leave the company to start projects of their own. I
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by marcus 19y ago
My number one method to get in the zone is quiet. I use a pair of Audio-Technica ATH-ANC7 QuietPoint Active Noise-Cancelling Headphones - they have been a god sent for me.
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by marcus 19y ago
I agree some projects are great fits for single founders but you should be able to convince at least one rational person this is a good idea and is worth investing the time, energy, money into. It doesn't matter if that person is your spous
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by marcus 19y ago
I got the fact that it helps you get liquidity quickly but what do you do with that liquidity? Ad-revenue sharing is not really a very stable business plan. What can you do if facebook decides to shutdown 3rd party advertising or bans your
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by marcus 19y ago
1) If VC funding isn't likely how about angel funding, they are significantly less geographically centered and can be found almost everywhere. 2) Web design can be outsourced very easily and relatively cheaply offshore - ping me if you need
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by marcus 19y ago
Sometimes you can make a lot of money even if you make a mistake. Sometimes even if you make quite a few mistakes. There are quite a few startups that had the wrong platform and survived, quite a few that had only one founder and survived a
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by marcus 19y ago
That was the point I was trying to make. Perhaps you get easier access to liquidity and can gather users a tad faster but in the end you have very little control. You don't own the liquidity you are borrowing it, you don't even have a TOS c
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by marcus 19y ago
Actually I'm pretty sure that developing facebook apps falls under mistake 7 - Choosing the wrong platform. EDIT: Whoever downmodded this comment, can you please explain to me why facebook is a good platform choice? What advantages does it
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by marcus 19y ago
funny he says yahoo's idea was original the word yahoo is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle"
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by marcus 19y ago
A part of me wants to scold you that you need to balance your leisure and work, but I totally understand how one can be consumed by his work and vision. I have the same problem :) But I usually find that a few hours in the "middle" of the w
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by marcus 19y ago
I wasn't trying to be condescending and I apologize if I hurt any one. I have actually bootstrapped quite a few startups (crashed and burned horribly on the first 3, only the 4th one actually made me a bit of money). And when I thought I di
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by marcus 19y ago
If you are not willing to risk 70$ per month you are in the wrong business my friend, or you are woefully too cash-strapped even the smallest bootstrap should be able to afford that. And what's the alternative going down the Twitter road? I
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by marcus 19y ago
That may be true for YC which does seed funding but the model for VCs that invest large sums of money is based on the home runs and if you can't show the hope for a home run, they'll probably not be interested.
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Solve minesweeper win a million dollars(claymath.org)
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by marcus 19y ago
Data sharing sites for scientists are desperately needed. Every time you set out to do some real research the real problem is gathering the data. You can spend more time on gathering the data than doing the research. Maybe a social network
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by marcus 19y ago
http://www.itasoftware.com/careers/puzzles07.html Has a couple of very nice puzzles. http://www.icfpcontest.org/ And ICFP contests are always fun
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by marcus 19y ago
Never said it was a search algorithm. That is what I am trying to find in this thread ideas on where the solutions are most valuable and how to pitch them.
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by marcus 19y ago
ML is a very interesting field. Great resources can be found on: http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/html/machine.html http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/ai.html Start by reading and completely understanding a few of the simpler machine learning algo
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by marcus 19y ago
Lets try to stick to something ethical with either a positive impact on the world or at least without a negative one. Don't want the spam in the worlds Inboxes to be on my hands.
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by marcus 19y ago
Added my email to my YC news profile.
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by marcus 19y ago
Copyright isn't forever. It originally expired 17 years after the death of the author. Unfortunately Disney pushed for extension of copyrights every time their key copyrights (Micky mouse & friends) were about to expire and have been ab
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by marcus 19y ago
You are right there are quite a few problem types in ML and a lot of different algorithms but because my idea is a basic insight into something that is missing in existing algorithms, I've been able to incorporate the change into several di
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by marcus 19y ago
I had the same idea but I tried approaching them and couldn't get them to try and test my algorithm. Cold calls in that industry are very difficult... I don't want them to take my word for it, just supply me with more test data and I could
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by marcus 19y ago
I was hoping to avoid all the hassle by sticking to my core competency of artificial intelligence doing a co-venture with some established players in the fields and help them improve their results. I know that the Ralph Waldo Emerson quote
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by marcus 19y ago
KDD 2006 cup http://www.cs.unm.edu/kdd_cup_2006 My algorithm scored 2.043 19 on tasks 1 & 2 Top 3 places 1: 1.35 1.28 1.27 Top 3 places 2: 13.58 13.56 13.44 Note these scores represent 5 different teams.
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by marcus 19y ago
Actually most of them have been dead for a long time so it wouldn't really matter, but I agree with you some things should not be patentable. On the other hand imagine a world without patents and you'd probably get a world fill with trade s
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by marcus 19y ago
From my experience genius isn't a boolean thing, people can be brilliant in somethings and horrible in other things. I try to acknowledge my limitations and ask for help in the things I suck at.

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