mljoe

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by mljoe 9y ago
I agree with you 100%, but MOOCs aren't necessarily the only option for educational innovation. The idea of Minerva (students still live together, but the university moves around the world) sounds interesting to me, even though it is n
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by mljoe 9y ago
University is ripe for disruption. Not only has the prices spiraled out of control, no time in history has good quality information has been more available on the Internet. When I was in school, when YouTube was new, I would watch well craf
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by mljoe 9y ago
Fraunhofer got paid lots of money from big companies buying patent licenses. Since they are a non-profit institution dedicated to scientific research, almost everything they make finds its way back into funding scientific research. That sai
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by mljoe 9y ago
According to the DOT, a train is only about 33% more energy efficient then driving.[1] In addition a subway or bus system has to run on a schedule even when the train is mostly empty. The train and bus is always starting and stopping and ca
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by mljoe 9y ago
Anecdotally, when I was IT student sysadmin at a major university, I don't recall ever seeing admin staff doing actual work. Often times, you'd walk through the hallways and see rows and rows of offices of people screwing around o
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by mljoe 10y ago
I can't imagine that 1099 contractors were ever envisioned to be used in the manner they are being employed by these companies. These employees (err.. I mean contractors) are long term, often full time and core to the business of the g
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by mljoe 10y ago
How about "statistical inference"? This is not an uncommon term for ML techniques in the statistical community.
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by mljoe 10y ago
That's why we can't have tech and science knowledge concentrated in the hands of a powerful few. If AI/robotics knowledge is everywhere, no single group will be able to control it.
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by mljoe 10y ago
Rent seeking is a transaction where the rent seeker accumulates money without contributing to the overall wealth of a society, basically getting paid without labor effort, offering a product or otherwise advancing innovation or the human co
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by mljoe 10y ago
Exactly. Treating chronic genetic disorders might require expensive biologics over the span of a long time to only partially treat. And since the disease is genetic, there is always the risk it comes back.
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by mljoe 10y ago
There is something significant about humanity no longer being bound by the tyranny of natural selection. We a species who have the power, however limited, to shape the landscape to our will and desire. Now we can also conquer our own biolog
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by mljoe 10y ago
Textbook prices and college costs in general are amongst the most notable products outpacing inflation.
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by mljoe 10y ago
There is no "deep logistic regression" because such a construct is just called a "neural network". (It's not the only kind of neural network however.)
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by mljoe 10y ago
"All remaining problems" in this case means the universe of all potential functions. Everything. Only a vanishingly small subset of every kind of function or dataset are of interest or even observable in nature.
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by mljoe 10y ago
Thiel's Fellowship is somewhat based on that idea, a scholarship for NOT going to college. I still think college has value, but the costs have been increasing much faster then inflation, while the value has been declining due to the sy
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by mljoe 10y ago
The best definition I can come up with is hardware that implements neural network architecture directly, especially McCulloch–Pitts spiking neurons (which have a temporal component). In neuromorphic chips, neurons are an actual component in
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by mljoe 10y ago
The big losers in a VC funded snake oil are the founders. In the end of the day they waste years of their lives making starvation wages for nothing.
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by mljoe 10y ago
Governments have found one neat trick to hide what are exactly handouts from scrutiny like that. They call them "tax credits". A "tax credit" is literally just a handout, a $1000 tax credit means you get a $1000 check. Y
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by mljoe 10y ago
danielweber, Interesting idea, I think to some degree we already do this in an roundabout manner. We provide subsidizes (corporate tax exemptions for R&D) and billions of dollars of direct grants to scientific research for example, that
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by mljoe 10y ago
Good insight, the amount of money society spends on marketing is staggering (and that's thats only things explicitly labeled as such, which I think your case is not). Actually I would go as further and say short of high IP/high te
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by mljoe 10y ago
I don't think an income tax that punishes people for making too much money is the right way to go about it. How about instead of punishing people for being rich, discourage the filthy rich from spending money on the frivolous. For inst
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by mljoe 10y ago
Is it "customary" for a company to pay for mattresses? Maybe if the company runs an oil rig, but a tech company? This even goes for things like salaries. If a company pays salaries that are way above the market rate, this could be
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by mljoe 10y ago
I think an understanding of the positives and negatives of copyright is important. Copyright is an important economic motivator and the basis for the creative industry's ability to generate revenue, but taken to extremes it stifles tec
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by mljoe 10y ago
Maybe, but I would argue it's probably a bit easier to get a $1m loan if you already have $1m in assets to use as leverage.
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by mljoe 10y ago
That seems really off, considering that the top 1% (down with the 1%, etc.) make at least $428k nationwide.[1] Where are you getting the information? [1]: http://www.kiplinger.com/article/taxes/T054-C000-S001-what-
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by mljoe 10y ago
The engineers are not getting that obviously, it depends on how much equity they have and the difference between the amount of VC money pumped into a company and the final sale price of the company. VCs often get 2x preferred stock (at the
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by mljoe 10y ago
Even in low multiples typically the VCs creates a decent incentive for the founders to stay at the acquired company (otherwise the acquihire will fail), but they aren't getting filthy rich.
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by mljoe 10y ago
It shouldn't make a difference. I don't think there is a statue of limitations in challenging a law and sometimes it takes some time to understand the implications of a law anyway.