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by mathattack 12y ago
I see an awful lot of #3. Hard not to laugh when I see it. Sometimes I think that describes 3/4 of the things I see Data Scientists working on. The challenge in the field is very few folks know programming, math/stats, and the dom
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by mathattack 12y ago
I like these when there aren't To Dos to write down. :-)
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by mathattack 12y ago
The warning sign of 1999 was Marketing majors becoming web developers. Are we there again?
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by mathattack 12y ago
A lot of people make excuses based on generations, but it's more about what management is willing to tolerate.
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by mathattack 12y ago
Customer satisfaction is disproportionately tied to the sales experience. I still resent the guys who sold me my Toyota. It stands to reason that how we are recruited also directly impacts how we feel about the company after we join.
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by mathattack 12y ago
I view this in the light of the Prisoner's Dilemma. In a one player game, it pays to be nasty. It only pays to be nice in an ongoing game. Ron Conway seems to have been playing the ongoing game long before increased transparency made i
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by mathattack 12y ago
I think a paywall will kill it, and they know that. Perhaps more focused ads is the way to go. The value of programmer eyeballs is a lot higher than grandma.
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by mathattack 12y ago
Is this a sign of how little PayPal has innovated lately?
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by mathattack 12y ago
2 reasons for this: 1 - It generates 2/3 of the money. 2 - It probably requires the most handholding from Sales and Customer Support. There's only so much scaling they can do.
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by mathattack 12y ago
"Spolsky says that two-thirds of its revenues today come from recruitment services, via its Stack Overflow Careers site, and one-third from advertising." I found this very interesting. Stack Exchange is an insanely useful service,
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The Revolution in Astronomy Education: Data Science for the Masses(arxiv.org)
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by mathattack 12y ago
Historical trends have shown that abstract and critical reasoning (what could be termed IQ) has improved over time. [0] Also, remember the context. This exam was for a very small portion of the wealthiest and highest educated elite. That
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by mathattack 12y ago
SATs, ACTs, alumni preference and other current admissions policies reinforce biases too, but any admissions standard will. (If it helps to get one into college, wealthy parents will find a way to optimize their kids around it) It's
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by mathattack 12y ago
Remember what the purpose of the exam was... They weren't testing your knowledge, they were testing your social class. At the time Harvard was a school for the white upper crust private school elite of the Northeast. This test ensur
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by mathattack 12y ago
Great for moving too. I could have used this when apartment hunting to show floor plans to my spouse. (Much better than just pictures)
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by mathattack 12y ago
Seems like a strange scam, in that the only outcome is an offer for employment which one can refuse if they want.
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by mathattack 12y ago
It's tough, but that standard exists for a reason. They want it to be somewhat arms length. But this means that if you go too far off the beaten path, it's hard to follow.
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by mathattack 12y ago
If they are as guilty as the article suggests, they should go to jail too. Just losing your career isn't enough.
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by mathattack 12y ago
What's criminal is that this impacted cancer trials. Yes, mistakes were made, and yes, people should go to jail for this.
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by mathattack 12y ago
Inspiration? http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/steve-j... That said, I'm not a fan of tax incentives for art from a government that's borrowing money, as one definition of art is
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by mathattack 12y ago
Many scientists struggle with the Plan B. If it's very math heavy (physics or engineering) then Wall Street is an option, but by the time many others opt out, they are too specialized to use their knowledge for a 100K job.
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by mathattack 12y ago
Some of it is which graduate school. I would like to see a lot of folks with those majors studying policy, business, law, government, etc. Knowing the scientific method goes a long way above and beyond doing pure research and teaching.
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by mathattack 12y ago
This requires years of in-depth study without guideposts. If it's a brand new field, help people along the way. (Write books, explain the concepts globally, create projects for Phds, etc.)
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by mathattack 12y ago
We know that a computer can't verify all unknowable theorems. (Theory of Computation) But perhaps one can verify all provable theorems. I suspect that computers will struggle on the cleverness factor, where proof requires joining mul
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by mathattack 12y ago
A professor once defined a proof as "That which is convincing", and we were free to say, "I am not convinced" While the topic being proven may be technically correct, the act of proving is a social act. The formal notat
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by mathattack 12y ago
He has also criticised the rest of the community for not studying his work in detail, and says most other mathematicians are "simply not qualified" to issue a definitive statement on the proof unless they start from the very basi
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by mathattack 12y ago
Hire, Hire and Hire. I suspect their infrastructure costs are very high too. One challenge that companies find as they try to scale is they have to add a lot of Sales and Marketing costs well before they receive any revenue, so there'
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by mathattack 12y ago
It seems strange to me that people assume that more education in any field they want will necessarily result in more money. Schools are producing too many Biology Phds. Or Forensic Science undergrads. Such is life. There's no way to
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by mathattack 12y ago
Have you ever run into legal issues with #1 and #3? Every big company I've worked for has explicitly forbid this due to potential discrimination suits.
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by mathattack 12y ago
It is a good question, and just a different way of asking, "Who is your question and how are you different?" and "How much do you know the history of the market you're trying to disrupt?" If someone claims to be dis

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