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by mathattack 14y ago
From the comments, "Roupen Bastajian, a 35-year-old state trooper from Smithfield, R.I., had just finished the race when they put the heat blanket wrap on him and he heard the first blast. "I started running toward the blast. And there were
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by mathattack 14y ago
They police are saying, "Don't use your cellphones, as they can set off other devices." Is there real science behind this?
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by mathattack 14y ago
When 9/11 hit my first thought was, "Travel is really going to suck now." When the Bali bombing hit, I thought, "I've been to that bar, holy sh*t!" This time around I'm thinking, "I know some people who were running." Reaction to issues i
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by mathattack 14y ago
There's a very fine line on hiring salespeople. It is great to have super confident people. It's ruin to have bullies who over-promise to hit quotas. There is a fine line as you need the former to stay in business and grow, but the latte
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by mathattack 14y ago
Given this, it's a wonder that people try to beat the market and invest in products they don't understand. Index funds are government bonds are much better for the so called "dumb money."
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by mathattack 14y ago
This is why social media types say don't measure ROI, which is strange because online ROI is much easier to measure than traditional media advertising.
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by mathattack 14y ago
For tenure and societal benefit, yes. Was so for teaching though undergrad research can be a good experience.
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by mathattack 14y ago
The vast gap between talkers and doers.... In this article, in the end they contacted 1700 people only 1-10 were interested. That sounds more like the four standard deviation crazies who just want to be polite.
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by mathattack 14y ago
I enjoy stories like this that capture the mindset of the era. It was a different time, and very close to the iron.
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by mathattack 14y ago
I think this is old news. Tenure as a whole likely costs the system more than it brings in intellectual freedom benefits. It's a fallacy to think that more experienced tenured teachers are better educators, when it's research success that
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by mathattack 14y ago
Right, but it can be done so perpetual scarcity is a fallacy, no?
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by mathattack 14y ago
Taxis seem to keep their status by being a very focused interest group. In NYC there are never enough. Why not just sell more medallions? I don't buy the "There's too much traffic" argument. Or why not sell regional ones? Try getting a
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by mathattack 14y ago
Here is the thing I can't get around... If Bitcoin is open source, what's stopping someone from setting up a competing currency? Perhaps it could have the promise of a more optimal growth mechanism over time, or some other feature. Once
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Change in labor participation rate(marginalrevolution.com)
1 points by mathattack 14y ago|0 comments
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by mathattack 14y ago
I liked the article until he got to this point... "Bitcoins, like gold, are beholden to no government; they can’t be printed by any central bank, and they certainly won’t be subject to hyperinflation, since the global supply of bitcoins wil
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Play-doh 3d printer(thinkgeek.com)
2 points by mathattack 14y ago|0 comments
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by mathattack 14y ago
"Modulo illness. They are both currently coming down with something and it's going to wipe out at least two working days." After kids, there is no time to be sick. You need to save sick days for the kids. :-)
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by mathattack 14y ago
I like the photo from the Seven Samurai. :-)
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by mathattack 14y ago
I think this quote is magic, "Software engineering is a constant battle against uncertainty – uncertainty about your specs, uncertainty about your implementation, uncertainty about your dependencies, and uncertainty about your inputs." Engi
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Patent Theory on a Napkin(marginalrevolution.com)
1 points by mathattack 14y ago|0 comments
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by mathattack 14y ago
It isn't just about the payout, it is precision too. You hit a very narrow demographic that spends money.
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by mathattack 14y ago
I am very interested of opinions on these boards for it. My intuition is there is no free lunch - if this were the optimal brain wiring, we'd be there already. Is it the inevitable crash or sleep deprivation? I haven't done any hard rese
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by mathattack 14y ago
Great point, though the caveat is this isn't true a level below. U of Chicago graduates poorer students near debt free. DePaul, perhaps not.
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by mathattack 14y ago
I think you hit it right in the head with the synchronous nature. It's ignoring a great feature of the new medium. Ignoring it would be like putting an encyclopedia online without links. I wish the author would have discussed Udacity.
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by mathattack 14y ago
Very hard to argue with real experience. Having to make payroll goes a lot further than a strategy class or term paper.
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by mathattack 14y ago
I volunteered for two above the intro one. Above and beyond prepping for interviews? Maybe... It is hard to say where one learns to think precisely and algorithmicly. (If algorithmicly isn't a word, it should be) Maybe it comes from l
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by mathattack 14y ago
He's a great read and self-promoter, and I mean that in the best sense of the world. That said, I would find an unauthorized biography interesting.
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by mathattack 14y ago
One could argue that it ties to Artificial Intelligence, and how ideas get into our heads. But yes, I had the same reaction.
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by mathattack 14y ago
Wow - this is pretty heavy. It's unfortunate, as I liked it as a view of market sentiment. It's one thing to pontificate, another to vote with dollars. "Financial Irregularities" is never good, and I can't see this ending well.
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by mathattack 14y ago
The amazing thing to me are the comments. There is little disagreement on the existence of rampant cheating, and more about how and why. Quotes from the comments: "Harry Lewis can also be part of the problem. He is, along with Bob Scalise

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