mathattack

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   by mathattack 13y ago

   If this is about hiring for talent, then Yahoo is in serious trouble. I will give her this - people are talking about Yahoo again. Some of that was the old board, but she deserves some of the credit too.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Medium doesn't seem to be for everyone. It does seem to simplify things for some readers though, if at the expense of many writers.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Putting something online is very different than actually getting meaning out of it. I'm afraid that this will push us towards more laws rather than less. But... Perhaps there will be good machine learning apps that can make sense ou
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   The household economics of 3D printers(marginalrevolution.com)

   2 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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   Your guide to interacting with an introvert(fastcocreate.com)

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

   The joys of Japanese service. :-)
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   It's worth ruling out embedded software. The utilities (include the telecom companies too if you want) have a lot of assembly code written ages ago that they're afraid to touch. I suspect that's worth a good first look. I t
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   The first thing I thought was, "The guy is making this up. What would Bayesian stats tell us?" In this case, I was wrong.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   100+ pounds is a lot of drugs! And it's a gift that keeps on giving. Once you have the car codes, you can use the same vehicle many times.
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    Bradley Manning found not guilty of aiding the enemy, guilty on other charges(cnn.com)

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

    Does this really solve the problem? The execs at Lehman and Bear had skin in the game. Sure some of the senior-most folks got away with small fortunes, but everyone last money. Some people lost their life savings. Conceptually this makes
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Social engineering trumps hacking.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Decibel is a quirky place by any stretch. I've never seen a bar where the workers sample so much of the product.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I like this quite a bit. 2 places have no tipping in New York City: - Sushi Yasuda - considered by some the top sushi spot in the city. (Certainly one of the most expensive) - The tap room at Whole Foods - let's just call it a little
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    An exciting new (old) world is opened up. Interesting that much of this happens as a right of copyright expiration.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I appreciate where you are coming from, as you bring much more real experience into this than me. Here's an open question, and I'm going to pull some numbers out of the air to just make a point... Let's say that you have a gi
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    Technopessimism is bunk(pbs.org)

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

    I don't think it's just Arizona that's pinching the public universities. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/01/23/state-funds-hi... New Hampshire had a 41% one year drop!
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Fair enough. Perhaps I'm biased by personal experience. Through an advanced track in high school and a college minor in math, I didn't have one inspiring math teacher. I got more inspiration out of Project Euler than I ever did
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Lightly reading a paper and working to understand it are two different things, especially for a potentially groundbreaking work.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I think the trend will be differentiated by goals... There are core classes with known material that people don't look to for inspiration: entry level math, accounting, etc. In the right circumstance, this should free up the teacher
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Indeed, I went shopping at a "Going out of business" sale for a high end children's toy store this weekend. They said, "We're going online to compete with Amazon, can't afford retail space any more." Thei
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Great article. It seems like once you get beyond the hype of Big Data, you get to some old technologies whose primary use cases are finally coming to light. The more things change...
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    "These days, algorithms are not a major part of most computer systems." I disagree... While GUI developers don't worry about O(n^2) versus O(n log n) performance, sites like Google wouldn't respond in real time without
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Has anyone here studied under Dijkstra? I only know of one programmer who did - one of the best hackers I've ever met, who eventually dropped out of UT to program full time. I never asked about his opinions of the professor, and anyth
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    It's a systemic problem. Individual universities don't get harmed by producing too many Phds. If the top 20 schools produce double the scholars needed to fill all the open tenure track spots in the US, they're not harmed.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I find the quest for passive income comes from a laziness - it's like wanting an easy way out. Those folks rarely do well in the long term.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I'm pro-MOOC, but I think he's attacking the wrong straw man. Because the costs are so low, a high drop out rate is fine. If you want to experiment on a subject in a 30 person live class, the financial and opportunity cost (takin
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I don't see why any of this is any different than a typical cut-throat hedge fund.
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    Activision goes solo in $8.2 billion deal(money.cnn.com)

    1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments