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by musesum 11y ago
While at Harvard Law School, Barrack Obama argued that economic status is better indicator of crime than race (can't find the cite, as there is more written about Obama than by him, at HLS). If using an Artificial Neural Network, would
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by musesum 11y ago
Sport hunting changes lion social behavior, as per: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320710... I don't have an Elsevier account, so only read the abstract, which states that lions ar
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by musesum 11y ago
Interesting link. What? No entry for time spent out of the saddle? How much drafting? What brand of rims? Tires? Beard? Perhaps measuring direct inputs would be better. I notice that the kreuzotter model was tested with SRM cranks. I wonder
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by musesum 11y ago
I listened to Sallet's interview on iTV4. He claimed three possibilities (paraphrased) 1) Unique physiology, 2) drugs, 3) mechanical enhancements. Sallet failed to mention 4) wrong inputs to the model. When the interviewer challenged h
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by musesum 11y ago
I saw Kasian Franks speak at a meetup in Oct 2007. A friend suggested that I check out SeeqPod since I had worked at an earlier music streaming startup. As I recall, he made a negative comment about the labels, near the end. His position se
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by musesum 11y ago
I wonder if a Law Degree runs counter to running a social network? Where authority bumps up against anarchy. Imagine Peter Thiel running reddit. Both Thiel and Pao have law degrees. Both have been lightning rods. I suspect a JD comes in han
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by musesum 11y ago
So, the jury is out until a followup. How to measure productivity without bias? Applying Demarco and Lister's "Coding War Games" approach may work between companies, but how to apply within a single company? What would be the
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by musesum 11y ago
Animal analogy is interesting. Any animals that cultivate crops? Are there any Human hunter/gatherer societies that scaled? Here's a snippet of dialog from one of my favorite movies: Jeremiah Johnson: You wouldn't happen to k
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by musesum 11y ago
In California, Labor Code Section 2780 gives some rights - and some exceptions. In previous agreements, I've listed prior inventions that were not assignable. Recently, I was presented with an agreement that had what I thought to be a
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by musesum 11y ago
Here are the stats: http://streets.mn/2014/07/01/bicycling-relative-safe/ TLDR: 5x more dangerous in car than bikes per billion km. Less dangerous in countries with more bikes per capita, despite fewer h
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by musesum 12y ago
In 2004, NASA hosted the Virtual Iron Bird workshop. I attended. At the time, VPOTUS Dan Quayle proposed that we fly to Mars. But, because there was no additional budget, it meant that NASA had to re-budget funds from other programs. There
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by musesum 12y ago
Have offshored some dev in India, in the past. We depend on Github. VPNs aside, idiotic IT policy by India nudges us towards South America. Same goes (I think) for China in blocking Google Apps.
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by musesum 12y ago
Metrics for MSFT vs GOOG: https://blog.kissmetrics.com/google-vs-microsoft/ Pay > $150K: MSFT 40%, GOOG 20%. Age Over 55: MSFT 16%, GOOG 20%. No children: MSFT 74%, GOOG 79%. As for me, I am 57, a developer in a sta
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by musesum 12y ago
An associate at USVP asked me about my lack of degree. Me: "I'm following the Bill Gates model." He: "What, you have a Mother that is a Lawyer and you dropped out of Harvard?" I laughed. They put in a few million
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by musesum 12y ago
I find "30. John Gage" interesting in that he was Chief Scientist at Sun. I always thought that Google's Dalvik was a hack around Sun's business model for Java, in bypassing the need to license JVM. The fact that John Ga
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by musesum 12y ago
Seems like a tradeoff between fluid intelligence and pattern recognition. In my 20's it was easier to pick up new concepts, with longer short term memory. In my 50's, I have acquired more patterns to apply. The downside, when I wa
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by musesum 12y ago
The premise of the article reminds me of the metric of "fielding average" in baseball. A player can have a high fielding average by playing it safe and by not aggressively running to the ball in play. So, it is possible that a mor
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by musesum 12y ago
A psychologist friend mentioned that invoking 2nd person (you) often escalates conflict. I wonder what it would take to write a thread parser that bounces comments with "you" as the focal point? Sentiment analysis probably has som
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by musesum 12y ago
Hyperbole, anyone? "Boy Kings" by Katherine Losse probably has more insight, as she was an early employee at FB.
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by musesum 12y ago
Or it could be part of a sigmoid. How to interpret depends on whether you're an optimist or a skeptic.
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by musesum 13y ago
> but I don't see that "voting with your wallet" works well in general. I agree. Would need to span all products - not just music - and mindlessly enhance my existing buying behavior. The problem is that boycott-able produ
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by musesum 13y ago
"I recommend that you refuse to buy as much as a guitar pick from any company currently owned by a private equity firm, or any financial entity that does not come from the music industry itself." The problem is that any boycott in
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by musesum 13y ago
Many times it is blind enthusiasm. My first exposure to that was being surrounded by VC's in 1983 who wanted to invest in our company. We had one of two project management systems, in the market, that worked on an IBM PC. By 1985, ther
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by musesum 13y ago
Maybe I'm an outlier; I'm a 55+ engineer working at a mobile startup. Maybe not; 20% of Google's employees are >55, according to a Kissmetrics chart. But, who knows maybe the 55+ crowd at Google consist of only geniuses a
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by musesum 13y ago
A report from 10 years ago reflects a different economy from 30 years ago. 1980's software distribution was as complicated as making a manufacturing physical product. There was the manufacturing cost of the diskettes, packaging, manual
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by musesum 13y ago
Some notes on driving the Seiki 4K with a 1st generation MacBook Pro Retina. 50” is too big for desktop, better with multiple monitors that surround you. 39” is ok, but scaling has been an issue: text is sharp at 4K and 1080p. But, non powe
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by musesum 13y ago
Funny, I read Software Objects, after Blindsight. Is there some kinda speculative fiction digraph that we're all following? My reading graph was build via Goodreads.
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by musesum 13y ago
It doesn't have to be high power to be effective. Google search on "russian microwave US embassy" (not Bing search, unfortunately), which yields some interesting background on the Russian's beaming microwaves at the US E
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by musesum 13y ago
There once was a company called Digital Research (DRI). They had a successful language called CBasic. A friend that worked there tried to convince them to develop a compiler for another language called "C". They refused. He insist
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by musesum 13y ago
Relay looks a bit like MAX or Quartz Composer or vvvv. After writing a couple data flow DSLs for visual music, I think I'll support his work. Would prefer C++ over C#, as I now code for iOS.

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