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Statistics and Basics of Mathematics for Data Science – The Hacker's Way(github.com)
3 points by mathattack 10y ago|0 comments
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Machine Vision’s Achilles’ Heel Revealed by Google Brain Researchers(technologyreview.com)
10 points by mathattack 10y ago|0 comments
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by mathattack 10y ago
Defer gratification until you have six months in the bank, if that’s an option. Phenomenal advice. Having some cushion when between jobs is great. It's also peace of mind.
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by mathattack 10y ago
Finding the right balance is very important. Projecting confidence is important for leadership, and winning arguments. Overconfidence is a fatal bias. [0] In some fields (Sales?) overconfidence can spur achievement. In many others it'
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by mathattack 10y ago
Entrepreneurs are very positive people by nature. As a result we accentuate the positive. It comes from the same place as, "Come work for me - we're going to disrupt this industry! Please don't look at the legacy code in t
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by mathattack 10y ago
Although Apple is probably ok without the money, I cheer every time I see someone win in one of the trolling cases. It takes big companies to fight this - ones with deep enough pockets and long enough time horizons to realize that feeding
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by mathattack 10y ago
The report echoes a lot of positives I've heard about Beijing. And some of the negatives about San Francisco. I think the author misses some of what's happening in the valley. Supercomputing smart phones requires deep tech. The
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by mathattack 10y ago
For non-fiction, I give everything a 15 minute skim to get the Very Big Points. Only then do I decide on if the details are worth chasing. (Usually it's if I need more convincing, or explaining) In many cases (example: Gladwell) 15
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by mathattack 10y ago
I thought he was referring to this [0] which is a more detailed plan of attack along similar lines. [0] http://www.evergladeshs.org/ourpages/auto/2015/5/28/58122395...
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by mathattack 10y ago
The single most important thing in conflicts of interest is up front disclosure. If you let everyone know what's going on, there is rarely an issue. (This is what ultimately brought down the CEO of LendingClub [0]) One challenge is w
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by mathattack 10y ago
This is very much about putting the burden of understanding on the presenter rather than the suggester. I am big on sharing idea, but up to a point. After a while I started referring to providers of half-baked ideas as "idea fairies.&q
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by mathattack 10y ago
It's also about putting the burden of understanding on the presenter rather than the suggester.
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by mathattack 10y ago
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. I think uber's playbook of encouraging local activism to overcome govt and incumbent resistant wouldn't work there. Converting Didi into a partner is a big win for them.
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by mathattack 10y ago
I think it's missing a lot of cities. The concept is good, but I don't trust the metrics. (Bookstore in an airport versus something else?) I'd be interested in books read per person (though hard to measure) or at least book
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by mathattack 10y ago
Hindsight bias. It's very easy to look at the 3 winners over a long time horizon and say, "Look, they keep on going up and up." If this were a real trading strategy, then Momentum would sustain itself over a longer time, bu
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by mathattack 10y ago
Yes. And all the value in them came from external investments. There was only $5 billion in value left in core Yahoo.
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by mathattack 10y ago
It stuck around for a long time, but it's stock price has been crushed.
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by mathattack 10y ago
One can (and should!) argue that their great growth prospects are baked into their stock prices already.
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by mathattack 10y ago
And the vendor is the one who benefits more from the steak dinner. Most vendors love taking out clients to expensive meals. It grows the business as a result. I'm a big fan of creative outs in negotiations (figure out what you value
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by mathattack 10y ago
Yes - they also miss bonuses, equity, and "I think we can pay less to get someone from overseas".
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by mathattack 10y ago
Could this be market supply/demand? That banks in NYC are paying more for developers and less for site-ops (similar reasons mentioned elsewhere on cost vs profit center) and to hire and retain these folks, they need to pay accordingly
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by mathattack 10y ago
This highlights why it's important to see how VCs operate over time on issues like these. Some VCs make transition rounds easier than others.
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by mathattack 10y ago
On 3: I suspect that it's hard to get too precise on the A+++ to B grading scale. It's an imperfect measure and there's already plenty of disagreement between 4, let alone going to 10. You can fix some of the bias by using
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by mathattack 10y ago
"we would prefer to follow in this round, rather than lead it." There are some legal reasons for this if it's a down round. If the initial investment is in one fund, and there's a down round in another, they need someo
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by mathattack 10y ago
One of the stories from Chaos Monkeys [0] is how the author was no the receiving end of a potential company-ending lawsuit. He talked to PG, who ultimately was the one to play hardball with the other firm. Angels and VCs are better at this
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by mathattack 10y ago
Both. In terms of computing power, think of the Butterfly effect: small changes in initial conditions produce enormous differences in outcomes. Also, the models aren't constrained by what we think the equations should be. In a sense,
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by mathattack 10y ago
Referenced (and unfortunately gated) article from the source: http://harpers.org/archive/2016/08/the-origins-of-speech/
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AOL CEO Armstrong’s Yahoo Memo: ‘We’ll Work Closely with Marissa’(techcrunch.com)
1 points by mathattack 10y ago|0 comments
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Remaining Yahoo to rebrand after sale of assets to Verizon in 2017(techcrunch.com)
1 points by mathattack 10y ago|0 comments
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Transistors Will Stop Shrinking in 2021, Moore’s Law Roadmap Predicts(spectrum.ieee.org)
1 points by mathattack 10y ago|0 comments

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