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by myth_buster 7y ago
> It’s important to note that the FDA doesn’t yet know how certain diets may be associated with DCM in some dogs. From my read, it's an ongoing research and no results/conclusions have been reached yet. They are posting names
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by myth_buster 7y ago
[Nit] Show me 4 embedded ads but not a single chart when talking about trends. Also 2018.
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by myth_buster 7y ago
Essentially... > Better to ask for forgiveness than for permission Mantra/MO that they have been following since inception.
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by myth_buster 7y ago
> Consider whether you can reframe the problem. This to me has been perhaps one of the most useful tool when I'm struggling with something. The fable of NASA's space pen [0] is good marker to invoke this. [0] https:/&#x2F
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by myth_buster 7y ago
I'm surprised by the reception this is getting. I may be wrong here, but my approach to this would be completely counter to the one taken. Instead of overhauling POS systems (which are painful/tedious to do), I would try to build
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by myth_buster 7y ago
If you are only looking create value __only__ for early investors, then extracting all there is at IPO makes sense. But if you are looking to create value for employees who have given their blood, sweat and tears, it would be helpful to lea
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by myth_buster 7y ago
> Twitter is my stream of consciousness thoughts, blog ( http://hillelwayne.com ) is my heavily edited and revised thoughts https://twitter.com/hillelogram/status/1119765732127072256
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by myth_buster 8y ago
On a tangent, interesting closing remarks from the commissioner on the importance of courage, dreams and science. Targeted towards the present anti-science climate.
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by myth_buster 8y ago
Well deserved! Imagenet challenge and 2012 has been an inflection point but few have slogged through the AI winter and made it through to the other side.
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by myth_buster 8y ago
> already targeting a $50M exit makes it less interesting to me [...] with that short term of a mentality. $50M is short term or long term depends totally on the growth rate and while bootstrapping, that target could be a formidable chal
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by myth_buster 8y ago
Tangentially I suppose. > The story is that there was a big old legacy business that comfortably sold a standard package of features for a lucrative price, and then a bunch of tech startups came in and questioned everything; they unbundl
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by myth_buster 8y ago
> Facebook first got into the data-sniffing business when it acquired Onavo [..] to learn that WhatsApp was sending more than twice as many messages per day as Facebook Messenger [...] and to spot WhatsApp’s meteoric rise and justify pay
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by myth_buster 8y ago
In a gold rush, sell shovels... or... a service to move earth.
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by myth_buster 8y ago
As people are sharing resources related to John, the Freakonomics podcast, where John makes an appearance, on investing I found was informative as well. http://freakonomics.com/podcast/stupidest-money/
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by myth_buster 8y ago
Looks like a derivative of this. I feel like I've seen a company using this logo but am spacing out. https://www.dreamstime.com/stock-images-arrows-logo-designs-...
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by myth_buster 8y ago
I found this thread by Alex Parker very informative and fascinating. https://twitter.com/Alex_Parker/status/1077986070128668674
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by myth_buster 8y ago
The best one I've come across yet is Brian Acton being rejected by Facebook [0] ends up creating Whatsapp and in turn selling it to Facebook for $19B. Talk about comebacks. [0] https://twitter.com/brianacton/status
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by myth_buster 8y ago
I was listening to Lex Fridman's AGI Podcast where Vladimir Vapnik came to talk about Statistical Learning[0] and his take on deep learning as compared to statistics/mathematics was dismissive. To paraphrase from memory, the probl
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by myth_buster 8y ago
Null Object Pattern https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_object_pattern
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by myth_buster 8y ago
_has_ may be incorrect but I do feel the switch is happening [0]. Angular which is the most popular client side JS framework is using Typescript. React is also moving in the same direction with typescript-react-starter and tsx support. [0]
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by myth_buster 8y ago
> When I choose a language for examples in my writing, I think primarily of the reader. I picked Java because I felt the most people would be able to understand the code examples if they were written in Java. That was the case in 1997, b
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by myth_buster 8y ago
This I believe is also hammered on in Thinking fast and slow which is an excellent book. It condenses the major findings on behavioral psychology from 21st century into an accessible paperback.
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by myth_buster 8y ago
The only redeemable feature on Yelp that I come to often (from Google Maps) is Open Now, where I can fill in a time and it filters for that time. If its close to closing time, its rare that I want to know what's open right now given I&
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by myth_buster 8y ago
Think the important thing is model performance and tuning hyper parameters which is missing from this tutorial. Without that you are just regurgitating some model that does something.
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by myth_buster 8y ago
Great job building a product people use! I was curious that given its an JS/Client side app, do you have any plans of porting it to Electron[0] to make it a cross platform app? The reason I'm asking is coz editing my photos online
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by myth_buster 8y ago
> I'm willing to bet that when a company wants to hire a two sigma candidate they don't go through all this nonsense As a commenter mentioned in a different thread, two sigmas get acqui-hired. I remember reading about FB acquis
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by myth_buster 8y ago
> I'm doing a (free) operating system (__just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu__) for 386(486) AT clones. [...] and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(.
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by myth_buster 8y ago
Essentially inflation [0] and weakening currency [1]. [0] https://capitalmind.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Adj-for-In... [1] https://s.tradingview.com/widgetembed/?frameElementId=tra
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by myth_buster 8y ago
I wasn't following it closely but it does tickle me that the headline couple of hours earlier was __Tesla stock skyrockets after legendary short seller goes long__ [0]. [0] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/tesla-s
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by myth_buster 8y ago
Get hired at any place where good engineering is done Great advice.

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