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by mizzao 10y ago
Is the article arguing that ability to execute is not a distinguishing factor for startups? Or just that non-technical execution is more important than technical execution?
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by mizzao 10y ago
This book is a very handy pocket reference that overlaps with many of the ideas mentioned here: https://www.amazon.com/Decision-Book-Models-Strategic-Thinki...
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by mizzao 10y ago
I don't know, but outside of large CS systems projects, I haven't seen much incentive to "build things right", especially from the higher-ups.
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by mizzao 10y ago
I feel that academic code is generally more prone to bad-smell pressure than industry code, since people generally produce for papers and deadlines and "just get it working for now." It's good to see that it's possible t
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by mizzao 10y ago
Also related, but a different problem: the "hit-to-kill" phenomenon in China. Drivers try to kill any pedestrians they injure because they will be liable for more economic costs if the victim survives. http://www.slate.
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by mizzao 10y ago
I guess, if your benchmark for a satisfying life is to maximize discounted future cashflow.
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by mizzao 10y ago
Doing a PhD...?
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by mizzao 10y ago
That looks pretty @%(*ing compelling. Does anyone know how novel this is, and whether it would be computationally feasible to implement in real time (e.g. video games?) I could already see it being very useful in for offline 3D animation, s
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by mizzao 10y ago
Nope, we get sent papers to review and are expected to read and send a report of them without compensation, as part of our scientific responsibility. There have been attempts to speed up publication by offering cash bonuses ($20-$50) if you
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by mizzao 10y ago
The journal publishing model may have made sense before the Internet became widespread, but now it's just a business that allows a few publishers to make bank from academics who are both doing the work (writing papers) and curating the
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by mizzao 10y ago
As opposed to the many private institutions in the US, Canadian universities are all publicly funded and tuition costs a few thousand dollars at the most.
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by mizzao 10y ago
This must be Scandinavia...
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by mizzao 10y ago
This seems to follow a general pattern in today's devices: expensive hardware ruined by crappy software. Why is it that good software quality is generally an afterthought in so many systems?
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by mizzao 10y ago
I'm a scientist (coincidentally, an empirical one) but I still don't believe that all truth can be discovered scientifically -- that is, through repeatable data collection and experimentation. You can't prove or disprove the
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by mizzao 10y ago
Even as a Christian, I am still open to the possibility that religion may be an artificial construct. One important purpose it may serve is to motivate individuals to advance social welfare (and be happy while doing so) when we would otherw
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by mizzao 10y ago
I don't think this is specific to philosophy, or even to academia in general. Trying to get tenure isn't all that different from trying to get rich, famous, powerful, or so on. If you see tenure (or any of those other things) as a
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by mizzao 10y ago
There are so many discarded batteries from old electronic devices. Even chemical separation must be more effective than digging it out of the earth, right?
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by mizzao 10y ago
> Subjectively, each person's relative economic position is at least as important as their absolute position. That subjective need to be "better" than your neighbor is part of the reason we are all less happy even though w
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by mizzao 10y ago
Any comment on what is so special about this?
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by mizzao 10y ago
People don't have self respect in a lot of situations. For example: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/sports/julie-miller-ironma...
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by mizzao 11y ago
Interesting approach and political statement, but the economist in me really doesn't like it. It seems like making ivory scarce is going to encourage more poaching since demand is high and poaching lucrative. Another approach would hav
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Kenya Burns Huge Pile of Ivory Tusks to Protest Poaching(nytimes.com)
1 points by mizzao 11y ago|2 comments
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by mizzao 11y ago
If we can't trust our senses, then there isn't much point trying to prove what we can't see. These models themselves and their predictions are subject to the meta-problem that we can't trust that our evolutionary adapt
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by mizzao 11y ago
Do you have Javascript enabled?
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by mizzao 11y ago
I don't understand how this is a Rube Goldberg machine. Everything that happens is triggered by a Javascript setTimeout call, not from the action that happened before.
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by mizzao 11y ago
Considering that some have climbed Mount Everest (29k feet, and requiring much more physical exertion) without supplementary oxygen, it doesn't seem too far-fetched.
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by mizzao 11y ago
The "cold and lack of oxygen"? How about just altitude sickness? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altitude_sickness
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by mizzao 11y ago
It depends on the field, but some areas are more friendly toward this than others.
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Why Mass Incarceration Doesn't Pay(nytimes.com)
4 points by mizzao 11y ago|0 comments
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by mizzao 11y ago
Preprints offer a way forward here, allowing scientists to both publish in "prestigious" venues and disseminate their work more easily: See for example http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/science/

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