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   by mathattack 13y ago

   I think the idea of the post isn't to tune out the negativity, but to thrive on it. If all the feedback is positive, you get a couple pats on the back and are forgotten. If you anger and thrill people in equal enough proportions, you
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   "I asked [Turing] one day why he punished himself so much in training. He told me, ” I have such a stressful job that the only way I can get it out of my mind is by running hard.”" I like that. The level of exercise has to be hig
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Adding to what Ryan said, when the time is right for an idea, there are usually multiple competitors out there. 2 is a small sample size to generalize off of. But... There may be other reasons.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   I don't think the purpose of this is to actually have the tools, it's to go through the mental process of creating them. Similarly, writing compilers in Scheme for every language under the sun may not be the best way to get to pr
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   There's two reasons here... 1) As was mentioned by Shubb, there is a predatory aspect to algorithms. If I know how your algorithm will work, I can create one that will be it. You can think of it as programming robots to fight. If I
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Without having sat on the jury, I will have to rely on public documents for the relative size of Goldman's proprietary business. This may not meet your standard of proof. After the Volcker rule, it has become much tougher to find dat
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   The 1940s Kitchen of Tomorrow(paleofuture.gizmodo.com)

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

   I can buy that the story sounds fishy, but why does this link suggest it? Just that the fund was really created 2 years ago?
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   I assume that the research article is slightly tongue in cheek. It's about applying Physics in a creative setting. If we followed the information bottleneck, we wouldn't be able to move at all. Since we can move faster than tele
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    It was stealing proprietary code that could have cost Goldman hundreds of millions of dollars.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    An early mentor of mine stressed the importance of judgment, and pattern recognition. I think that's the point here. In the end, despite all the data you still have to have the right intuition. It can come from intelligence, and it
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    Placebo buttons(youarenotsosmart.com)

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

    Seems like it's not worth the liability - much more to lose.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I modestly disagree with the trend on MOOC. MOOCs are cheaper and are (relative to full time in person programs) more about learning and less about signaling. If you can get into MIT, the signal is so strong that it matters less how much
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    NSF cancels political-science grant cycle(nature.com)

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

    If he has 30 assistants, he's a lot more than a teacher. He's the equivalent of a senior partner at a professional services firm.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    This is actually very hard, because a test can seem to be unpreparable, but then over time people find a way to prepare. It's very much a moving target.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    If you have a $2.5 million condo, what are you doing using Airbnb?
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Thanks! What I meant is that certain entrepreneurs will choose to go for money, while others won't. Again - thanks for the reply!
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    ok - since you volunteered... - How much of the VC funding decision (the one you quoted) is based on economic characteristics like growth potential or need for money? My impression is old enterprise requires more money to scale, and hence
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Are there any angry users of the old services? People who might say, "I joined your mission as a new venture, and now you're all quitting at once to join a new firm"?
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Valve is the one I had in mind. I've read of some challenges they've had scaling. 50 and 150 seem to be magic #s in terms of organization size, and adding formality.
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    The NYT's $150 million paywall(cjr.org)

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

    I find that my apartment gets very clean when I'm really procrastinating. The only thing that works for me is a To Do list that I check things off of when they're done. There's something in the gamification that works there.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    They did mug him, but it's considered a huge no-no in financial services to take any kind of code home. It's impossible that he didn't know the gravity of what he was doing when he did it. It's always a terminatable of
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Will this scale past 150 employees? (I know, that's a high class problem, but it will come if they are successful.)
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I think privacy is already gone. I remember Geraldo Rivera going on a "Privacy is gone forever" rant after 9/11, and I was ashamed to admit that I actually agreed with him.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I frequently go up to 50+. It only (somewhat) becomes a problem when you have to reboot.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    For better or worse, Reddit already has the discussion on this topic.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    That map was made up. Most states would have the same most popular brands. Advertising is national.