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   by mathattack 13y ago

   My view on this is if you want to be paid better, work somewhere else. Or encourage an environment where there are more alternative employers. Nobody is holding a gun to anyone's head and forcing them to take a job there. (And yes,
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   I think this is the point. Because we're not putting our own lives at risk, we're actually getting more callous about it. This seems paradoxical, but I believe it's true.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   I believe that folks are actually starting to look into this. http://www.nissan-global.com/EN/TECHNOLOGY/OVERVIEW/dpcc.htm...
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   There's a lot to be said about creativity coming from being forced to deal with constraints. It's counterintuitive, but we get most juiced about solving problems when they're tough. It's hardest to start writing when i
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   It boggles my mind that this needs to be said, even if in jest. Just looking at the subject, I think, "What kind of idiot needs to be told not to commit when drunk? Do they need to be told not to drive when drunk too?" And the
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   McKinsey conversations with global leaders: John Chambers of Cisco (2009)(mckinsey.com)

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

   I recall an interview with John Chambers of Cisco many years ago where he mentioned having 20 or 30 direct reports, to avoid too much meddling in people's affairs. This can work if you don't need to make drastic changes (we have
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Great success! I suspect that it was A LOT more than 7 days of effort to put it all together. It was 7 days harvesting a lot of prior effort. (And I hope the harvesting turns into a lot more than $6K!)
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Awesome call. Props to both the kid, and his new favorite astronaut!
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Or Hindi.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    VCs do seem to be able to raise larger sums, if not for long durations. Look at all the late investors into Facebook. The challenge isn't dollars, it's the need to return money in 7 years.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Interesting that they point to GE as a place to do basic research. It used to be AT&T.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    If you don't announce what you're doing and why, people will always assume the worst. I'd be interested in finding out if there is an economic story-behind-the-story. I'll echo other people's thoughts that it'
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I'm also willing to toss in a 50,000 over 50 category too. Why not?
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Don't aim so low. How about the "Top 4,000 over 40"?
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    For the first time in forever I have a Mac as my primary work computer. (Granted with Windows on VM for a few things) I converted from Wintel at home back to Mac about 3 years ago, and I was a relatively later adopter.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I find that this confirms what we already know. It's hard to fit intense creative time into an 8 hour box. A quote on Poincare's [1] working habits: "He worked during the same times each day in short periods of time. He un
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    As someone who does a lot of introducing, if someone already owes me a favor, sometimes I try to cut the middle step of, "Would you talk to X?" and just cc: them both, but I realize it's a bit presumptuous. As the OP rightful
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Perhaps also why physicists can be dangerous in Finance. They have all the math skills, but they can also have a little too much faith in those skills.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Looks like he's got 2 new additions at the top of his blog. http://natethayer.wordpress.com/ I know nothing about the specifics of this case, but I have seen many cases of corporations saying, "We're big, th
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I was thinking similar. The best (and deepest thinking) programmers that I know are also the fastest. They don't always work the most hours or seem the most harried (which doesn't bode well for places like Advertising which like
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    This is a very interesting appointment, and brings about an interesting question on government appointments. Without knowing anything about Michelle Lee, my first thought was, "Great, this is someone who actually knows something about
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    One of the most important uses of data science is to determine the impact of charitable giving. Is it a more efficient use of money to give people cash, or pay for infrastructure in their town? Is it more efficient to invest in K-5 educat
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    You lost me a little with the analogy, but perhaps because my limited experience with business analysts has been that they are folks not technical enough for other jobs. This isn't how it should be, and it isn't universal, but bas
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Wow - thanks for creating this! I hope it has legs above and beyond the initial R tutorial.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    At least that. And much more on the valuation. These are bets on teams, and with leading (bleeding?) edge technology, the CTO is the most important person in the room.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I really love all these articles about Data Science, but it's a lot more than statistics. It's programming, it's domain knowledge, and yes, it's a lot about thinking of the meaning, format, and pliability of the data.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Doesn't MIT's Scratch [1] accomplish this? I was going to default to this. I'm wondering how much reading, writing and math my kids need to have before starting this. Reading complex sentences and addition and multiplicati
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    My sense is the issue has a lot to do with mental health and/or substance abuse. When people have severe issues, it no longer becomes an issue of laziness. The heartbreaking thing is in many cases efforts to help out makes things wor
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Fixing homelessness in SF is a very complicated problem. Some of it has to do with anti-gentrification. Other issues are zoning laws. In addition, there is a root cause of mental health and/or substance abuse. Here's an article