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by matt1 17y ago
David, glad to see you launched, that's more than most people ever do. As a few of the other folks have said, this is a tough field and you definitely have your work cut out for you. And I bet a lot of naysayers would have said the same thi
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by matt1 17y ago
I took some pretty detailed notes while I was there for anyone that's interested: http://www.mattmazur.com/2009/10/notes-from-startup-bootcamp... Enjoy --
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A Long, Painful History of Time(naggum.no)
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by matt1 17y ago
Audiobooks. I've listened to probably more than 20 in the last two years ranging from the Count of Monte Cristo to all of Malcom Gladwell's work to Investing for Dummies. It's a great way to make the most out of your commute because if you'
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by matt1 17y ago
Thanks for the excellent advice -- about the head out that way now.
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by matt1 17y ago
Thanks -- I suppose I'm more interested in seeing businesses. For example, does Google offer tours of the Googleplex?
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Ask HN: Anyone want to sightsee around the valley on Monday?
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Earnings: New Subscribers Boost Netflix’s Profits By 48 Percent(paidcontent.org)
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An Internet Advertising Primer(mattmaroon.com)
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by matt1 17y ago
I think they have people to install their browser toolbars, which monitor the sites they visit. Their statisticians then extrapolate the trends to the entire population.
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by matt1 17y ago
FWIW, in the beginning I thought it would be easy enough to do with simple conditional statements. That proved to be way too difficult/impossible. The HUSNG bot made heavy use of statistics, data mining, and expected value calculations.
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by matt1 17y ago
I recently read a post you made about two years ago where you advocate spending $2K getting set up ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=104977 ). On behalf of everyone you've helped with your responses to these threads, thanks. Btw, I met
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by matt1 17y ago
I use one of those flat white mac keyboards on one computer and a normal Dell keyboard at home, and another normal Dell keyboard at work. I think I'll try out one of the curvy Microsoft ones as a start. Thanks for the feedback.
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by matt1 17y ago
I've read mixed reviews of the Devorak keyboard, though I suppose its worth a shot. Has anyone else had success with it?
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Ask HN: Wrist Pain
60 points by matt1 17y ago|105 comments
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Building a Shortstacking Poker Bot - A Visual History(mattmazur.com)
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Freebase Parallax(freebase.com)
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by matt1 17y ago
Related question: why do big hardware stores, like Home Depot and Lowes, always seem to be next to each other? Same with Walmart, Target, and KMart. Same with gas stations. It seems like it'd be better to space them out, especially if you'r
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by matt1 17y ago
Related question: what's the general feeling about starting a project that you believe will be popular, but that doesn't have a clear revenue path?
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by matt1 17y ago
I've read The Mathematics of Poker; the binding is broken from keeping it propped open too much. That being said, it was not very helpful actually building a bot. They do a lot of nice little game theory examples, but most of it is not appl
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by matt1 17y ago
I just realized that I have the hand histories for all cash No Limit hands played on PokerStars from Dec 1, 2007 to Mar 12, 2008. I've got all the tools built to do the analysis, so I can pick apart the results from the lower and higher sta
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by matt1 17y ago
The TetriNET bot was a blast. You can download the full source code on the site as well.
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by matt1 17y ago
It seems easy, right? That's what I thought too. I purchased 7M+ NL200 hand histories from a guy who mined them all day every day. I filtered that down to hands where someone was playing with 15 - 25BB stacks and then for every person that
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Notes from Startup Bootcamp(mattmazur.com)
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by matt1 17y ago
Hey jp, great points. I would have posted the code, but for the life of me I can't find it anywhere. I had the Excel sheet stored in a different folder, which is why I was able to post it. Anyway, I think I was thinking that including the d
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by matt1 17y ago
Earlier this year I worked on a domain name finding site called Domain Pigeon. When I was telling people about it over email or AIM, people kept spelling it "pidgeon" like you would spell "fridge". I bought the domain name domainpidgeon.com
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Experimenting with a Neural Network-based Poker Bot (mattmazur.com)
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by matt1 17y ago
To anyone else at the event: I'm in the sixth row against the right wall, probably furiously taking notes on my Macbook. Feel free to say hi before the evening is over. Aaron Swartz now...
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Google: Searching for Trouble(newyorker.com)
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by matt1 17y ago
I used to work at a place that did this. We had an online system that everyone was required to use twice a year to rank every other employee from best to worst. You could also provide comments. When everyone was done they showed you what yo

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