michael_nielsen

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   by michael_nielsen 19y ago

   Great! Hope to meet you there. It should be a lot of fun!
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   StartupCampWaterloo (Oct 23)(barcamp.org)

   6 points by michael_nielsen 19y ago|2 comments
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   by michael_nielsen 19y ago

   I don't know much about Queens (I just moved to Canada), so I'm not sure if this is the kind of comparison I had in mind. I was thinking of the comparison between a top regional University, where there may be 1-3 (typically) students gradu
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   by michael_nielsen 19y ago

   There are many factors to consider in evaluating the value of a move. Depending on the nature of your startup, it may be more or less valuable to make the move to the Valley. Here's a few factors that seem relevant to that evaluation. 1.
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   by michael_nielsen 19y ago

   Steven Pinker's wonderful book "The Language Instinct" claims the the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is bunk. It's not the strongest part of the book, but still well worth reading. As a taste, Pinker tracks the evolution of the myth that the esk
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   by michael_nielsen 19y ago

   Presumably, your data can only show that it doesn't matter what school you went to, conditional on being accepted by YC. That is a completely different statement than showing that it doesn't matter what school you went to. Your article app
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   by michael_nielsen 19y ago

   How was the data analysed? The most obvious way, and the way the essay seems to imply, is simply to look for correlations between success / failure and which school the founders attended. If this is how it was done, then the conclusion
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   by michael_nielsen 19y ago

   Interestingly, one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, spent quite a lot of time teaching in schools, and writing textbooks and articles aimed at that level of audience. This was especially true later
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   by michael_nielsen 19y ago

   This is a strange article, in my opinion. The point of quantum computing is to enable completely new types of algorithms whose running time scales much faster - ideally, exponentially faster - than an ordinary computer. For certain very li
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    Open source Google(michaelnielsen.org)

    4 points by michael_nielsen 19y ago|0 comments
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    by michael_nielsen 19y ago

    I'm an Australian, now living in Waterloo, just outside Toronto.
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    Wikipedia's founder builds an open-source search engine(machinist.salon.com)

    4 points by michael_nielsen 19y ago|1 comments
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    by michael_nielsen 19y ago

    Buy a watch with a stopwatch. Turn it on when you're actually doing your work - coding, writing, whatever, and turn it off when you're not. My experience is that most people are utterly shocked to find how little they do in a day. To get