mathattack

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   by mathattack 12y ago

   It comes from "This person is good, but not great, and we only have one spot, so should we hold out for great?"
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   by mathattack 12y ago

   *Neither Uber nor Lyft put an end to Taxi medallion system.* The legal difficulty of Lyft and Uber denting the medallion system highlights what a small but highly organized minority can do again a large unorganized mass. That said,
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   by mathattack 12y ago

   You're onto something - there's a correlation between variables when coaching (intentional or not) is involved.
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   by mathattack 12y ago

   Exactly. The alternative is now there, and it's coming with a lobbying force of it's own. Once people are used to Taxi alternatives, they may start fighting back against the medallions.
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   by mathattack 12y ago

   It seems like the work where a dedicated minority (who stand to collect royalties) pushes against an issue that mildly benefits the majority. Taxi medallions were a similar phenomenon pre-Lyft and pre-Uber.
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   by mathattack 12y ago

   Even a week or month is short. I've been in situations where it's tough to make a hiring decision based on 10 weeks of (paid) interaction, even when saying "No" means having only 4-5 interviews to decide on a "Yes&
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   Sue the Ivy League(ozy.com)

   2 points by mathattack 12y ago|0 comments
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   by mathattack 12y ago

   I think it's all a matter of context. Right now? I can taste the difference between a garden burger and a beef cheeseburger. If there is a global food shortage, the difference matters less.
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   by mathattack 12y ago

   I'm aging myself. Maybe I should say 25. :-) When I was in school, computing time was a pain in the ass. Same with my first job after. I'm not talking run a little Excel, more like "Create the data cube for a company&#x27
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    Much easier to learn to program and do bigger things today. Professional life (and life in general) is much better today than 25 years ago. 20 years ago: - It was hard to find books on technical subjects. - Computing time was so scarce you
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    Thanks for such a detailed explanation!
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    I think it takes a lot of courage to say "No, you can value us at $800 million instead of a billion." There are reasons to do that, but it means some money is being left on the table either via dilution or lower capital raise. Th
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    I was thinking visas for Cuban doctors and nurses to come here too.
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    When you start from such a low base, there is enormous room for growth. The question is what can they export? Cigars? Medical personnel?
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    You're right on several points. - It could very well be a strategic leak. - It's brazen tone suggests that she's very weak. - It's much too long an article. The one thing I'd differ is she did appear to have a strat
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    The external piece is the surprising one. I've seen successful executives ignore the internals of their company in order to fully ingratiate themselves with customers. It's frustrating, but brings in revenue. It sounds like she
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    This is completely unacceptable behavior from anyone aspiring to be an actual leader. Seems more appropriate for crisis mode than ongoing management. In general there seems to be a modus operandi of "My time is more valuable than yo
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    This is painful, because you can support and institution while hate what happens to it. The same happens in the military. You can support our soldiers, but be sickened by base closure being turned into a political tool.
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    "Let's not let facts get in the way of a good argument." :-) Many times we tune out feedback that isn't congruent with our worldview and get locked in. That's why it's good to follow Paul's lead on rerea
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    Is it dangerous when Physicists get too far out of their element? Physicists promoted some dangerous ideas in Economics, but good ideas in Chemistry. Where does Biology fit in that mix?
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    At my Uni the assumption was that you didn't need to know before you started, but the upkick in 2nd year classes was very difficult, and you'd wind up with a few "15+ hours of non-class work per week" simultaneously. So
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    It's false confidence (confidence intervals, assuming that distributions don't change, etc) that causes real problems. Never trust a novice running a regression. :-)
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    We just plain don't know This is the key thing. We're just modeling, and models aren't so trustworthy over the long term when they're based only on past experience.
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    For an article about math, they seem surprisingly weak at differentiating between causation and correlation. It’s fairly common for incoming Computer Science majors to ask the question, “Why do I have to learn all this math if I just want
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    How does it work now?
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    Another source that disagrees... http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/economists-arent-as-nonp... It is very hard to not introduce bias into social sciences. This is also why psychology and software engineering studies
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    It's a valid point. I think it assumes that there's a time component involved too. The company did seem fairly on it's game on the time, and not one to flaunt controversy. But most hacks never get made public either.
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    An IT exec at a Fortune 100 company once described it as, "With 25K, someone can get into our network. We just need to make than # higher than most of the other companies out there. We can never be 100% sure as long as it's rea
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    There's too much of a benefit to his brand to not write. YC gets first pick of so many startups because people say, "I want to get advice from THIS guy" As for the overall issue of "Talking your position" - everyon
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    Yes - this stands up there with Neil Degrasse Tyson arguing that the Titanic had the stars wrong. :-)