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   IBM’s Supercomputer Watson Is Now a Chef With His Own Food Truck(time.com)

   3 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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   Wealthier people are more musical, report suggests(theguardian.com)

   1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   If Nakamoto ever sells his Bitcoin fortune, he would likely have to do so at a legitimate Bitcoin bank or exchange, which would not only give away his identity but alert everyone from the IRS to the FBI of his movements. I think they just
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Does this kind of harrassment-marketing really work? Until someone creates a payer based email system, yes this will work because the cost of spam is almost 0. Now imagine a system where you get paid a penny (or dime?) for every email sen
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   Big data correctly picks winners at Oscars(fiercebigdata.com)

   1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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   Using CART for Stock Trading(thertrader.com)

   1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   I believe that the empirical evidence supports that these guys do improve shareholder returns. It's not altruistic, they're doing it for their own position too, and they don't really care what happens after they leave. There
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   EBay is worst-run company I have ever seen: Carl Icahn(cnbc.com)

   63 points by mathattack 13y ago|46 comments
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   Ballmer's back: Former Microsoft CEO works crowd at Oxford(cnbc.com)

   1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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    Target tech chief resigns as it overhauls security(cnbc.com)

    1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I like that this is playing into the algorithm, rather than playing into the automation machine.
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    US Accuses Sprint Of Fraudulently Overcharging For Surveillance Requests(techcrunch.com)

    2 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    What is more interesting in this, the acquisition or that it will get immediately shut down? Is this just an acquihire to get Yahoo the data engineers good at social graphing, or is the tool now just for in-house use?
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    CNN sells Zite to Flipboard(money.cnn.com)

    2 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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    How digital music services may be fuelling a ‘superstar artist economy’(musically.com)

    1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Yes - this is the problem that most feedback sites have. I believe that Glassdoor uses Facebook as the verification. That way they at least know you are a real person, even if they can't explicitly verify that you actually worked the
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Great story. It certainly is a plausible one that changes the culpability of the owners. (From theft to slippery slope, both still bad)
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Insurance only helped so far in the Mortgage market... Most of the monoline (Mortgage-only) insurance companies went belly up.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    It's strange to hear mathematics described more as a search for art and structure than computation. Unfortunately most of my math education was on the computational/applied side. I'm only getting into number theory and the
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    The placebo effect is strong though!
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Remarkably, the Lego Movie is PG. I used this as the excuse to keep my wife from taking the kids. I'm a huge fan of the toys, less so of the advertising. I used Legos as building blocks to teach the kids letters. They build trucks,
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    This may be a stupid question, but is the unintended consequence of too many Phds not enough MDs? http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2014/03/04/americas-pa... It sounds like when the free market competes w
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    True. I guess it's a grey slippery slope, rather than immediate black and white of the others.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    The major problem here is that the auditing and security features were not explicitly looking for negative balances. They add deposits and withdrawals and check that accounts are in balance. If you have 2 BTC, withdraw 10 BTC, and are left
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    What advantage will another currency have over Bitcoin, that will trump it's lack of branding? If Bitcoin (with first mover advantage and network effects) fails, wouldn't it be twice as hard for the next to start from scratch? My
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    How hard is it to piece apart theft from incompetence?
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    Music-making card turns objects into wacky instruments(newscientist.com)

    3 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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    What good are children?(voxeu.org)

    2 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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    Economics: The biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the world?(pieria.co.uk)

    1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Here's the open question... If people are really forced to work on 2 year time horizons, should this investment really be happening in the private sector rather than the government? I get the idea of funding basic science with 20+ ye