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Small science, big diseases(ideas.time.com)
2 points by mathattack 13y ago|2 comments
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by mathattack 13y ago
Whoops! Now how long until the computer generated papers actually contain real science that's worthy of these journals?
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5 Psychological Studies that Require a Second Look(psychologytoday.com)
2 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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by mathattack 13y ago
I worked on a project for a firm with a large base of field technicians. Their scheduling system didn't allow options. You were told where to go, in which order, and in what route. The drivers were told to turn off their minds. I fi
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by mathattack 13y ago
I don't think it's irony. Early jobs in your career drive your perspective on technology and culture. That imprint stays with you, and you build new things in that model. Even if it wasn't explicit, the child mimics the pa
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by mathattack 13y ago
Wow - great to see IIT taking the lead on this. This can dramatically advance the engineering education across India. Of course the limiting factor in MOOCs is student attention. You still need to put in the time to learn.
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by mathattack 13y ago
The app purchase process is definitely broken. You can't trust ratings, and it's hard to know what you get. In the end it's just "I'll toss a few dollars and roll the dice." I really want high quality educati
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What UPS Drivers Can Tell Us About the Automated Future of Work(wired.com)
45 points by mathattack 13y ago|7 comments
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Most popular swear words on Twitter(theguardian.com)
1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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by mathattack 13y ago
It was strategic thinking. One could argue whether it worked or not, but it was an application of game theory to international relations.
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by mathattack 13y ago
Call me naive, but I think it was Junior surrounding himself with folks who wanted him to finish the job that Pops started. I think they (like most who start wars) dramatically underestimating the costs and complexity. I'm less incli
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Winner takes all, but can't we still dream?(nytimes.com)
1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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What does an economist at Facebook do?(quora.com)
1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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by mathattack 13y ago
The problem with FB is intent. Lots of impressions, quite a few clicks, but nobody is there to actually buy something (except "check-out aisle stuff" of the gum and gossip magazine variety, eg games, sub $20 impulse-buy items, et
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by mathattack 13y ago
€2,000 is a cheap lesson in the grand scheme of things. (The context of the original article is 600K) You did right by experimenting small.
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by mathattack 13y ago
It does use Khan Academy as a strawman though. "Let's say that Khan Academy is the be-all end-all of education, then prove that it's not." In reality, sites like the Khan Academy aren't intended to replace classroo
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by mathattack 13y ago
Good point. Small data set, but.... The #1 and #2 ranked students in my high school class both were single kids (no siblings) with helicopter parents who would intervene when they got poor grades. Both underperformed later in life. The
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by mathattack 13y ago
I think it's more a relative point. If you want to major in Philosophy/Art History/Religion and get a good job, only a small handful of schools matter, and UVa isn't one of them. UVa also isn't on the list of scho
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by mathattack 13y ago
We say they aren't important, yet we get impressed by MIT and Google on a resume.
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by mathattack 13y ago
So it's probably a good sign in general, but not a sign that the major is changing yet. At my university I would guess that it was about a quarter women. They were evenly distributed amongst the caliber of grads. Of the top 8 or so i
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by mathattack 13y ago
When I saw the title of this, I thought, "This is very P&G". Then I saw that the founder came from P&G. That's the right background to make this work. It's more about solving business challenges ("How mig
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by mathattack 13y ago
Sales is much more publicly metric driven than development. Many top sales organizations have public quotas, with quarterly contests, and public records showing how everyone is doing against it. The nature of sales (public wins and failures
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by mathattack 13y ago
Congrats! Big step up for him. Big step for PG too. I think the new division of labor should allow each to specialize at what they're good at.
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by mathattack 13y ago
There's a saying at Harvard Business School... (I didn't attend, so I'm not namedropping!) The A students become professors. The B students work for the C students. The academic society forces this focus on high grades acro
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by mathattack 13y ago
Every startup has a moment where the founder has to ask, "Do I become a professional administrator, or do I hand the professional management to someone else so that we can scale while I keep spending my time on what I want to." It
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by mathattack 13y ago
Very recursive!
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by mathattack 13y ago
Mentors? Who in their right mind would mentor a criminal like this?
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by mathattack 13y ago
Right - and they can lever up 10 to one or more on this.
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by mathattack 13y ago
I've lived in many places in the US and abroad, and found San Francisco to be on the more tolerant side overall. No place location or people is immune, but they're doing fairly well.
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by mathattack 13y ago
To your last point was Simple's cost of funding just too high?

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