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by namank 9y ago
Awesome! Thanks! Any chance you want to do one on compression of a integer time series? How about variable length integers? Such an article would be very appreciated in IoT circles since data (timed voltage values) transfer and storage can
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by namank 9y ago
Then why doesn't the metric account for companies that have not shutdown and not exited, i.e. have grown beyond a certain value? Isn't that closer to the most favorable founder outcome?
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by namank 9y ago
"Conversion" rate, as defined here, doesn't make sense for YC's (or any startup investors') financial model. Valuation could be useful. Maybe track the change in the companys' valuation over time.
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by namank 10y ago
Because it demonstrates that individual people have the power to affect change and all that remains between you and that is the willingness to take action.
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Slow feature analysis(scholarpedia.org)
1 points by namank 10y ago|0 comments
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by namank 10y ago
Btw, Twitter definitely has the potential to rival and I think, dominate, AP and Reuters if they design the business that way. Just need a reliable way to decide trust worthiness of the tweet/source, and a way to put context around a t
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by namank 10y ago
Btw, Twitter definitely has the potential to rival and I think, dominate, AP and Reuters if they design the business that way. Just need a reliable way to decide trust worthiness of the tweet/source, and a way to put context around a t
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by namank 10y ago
The other one is Reuters. AP and Reuters are the two largest networks for gathering news. Most other brands that you know and recognize are in the business of distributing news.
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by namank 10y ago
$20 says the crash is because of all the online jokes about moving to Canada that contain links to this site.
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by namank 10y ago
This is a very important conversation for this decade. Do post your solution on HN once you have it.
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by namank 10y ago
So 2pm Earth Time for me in North America means afternoon but it means night for Asia? This might make sense if Earth's communication with extraterrestrial localities significantly outweighed communication across Earth. But it doesn&#x
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Alzheimer’s treatment fully restores memory function (2015)(sciencealert.com)
122 points by namank 10y ago|27 comments
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What is inside a water tower?(mentalfloss.com)
2 points by namank 10y ago|0 comments
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by namank 10y ago
Seems to me, the advice is all about surrounding yourself with good people.
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by namank 10y ago
10 seconds, I live across the street.
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by namank 10y ago
Go to a startup meetup and hook up with someone you think will be great at marketing or knows something about the chat space that you don't. Partner with them on making this more profitable.
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by namank 10y ago
Precision, people. Precision with language is the mark of a clear mind. <snark>
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by namank 10y ago
Speaking for the other side, the point is not that you achieved the accuracy but it is understand how you thought about the problem. The ability to decide on a useful hypothesis, formulate the problem around it, and have some way to measure
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by namank 12y ago
Broadcast has it's own use. I posit that broadcast leads to a more organic formation of a community since it ensures that communities are emergent rather than prescribed. Thousands of communities come into being and dissolve on twitter
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The flying car: AeroMobil 3(wired.co.uk)
1 points by namank 12y ago|0 comments
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by namank 13y ago
So what, it's the maker mindset. Add to that with the appreciation for what to make, you have a very impactful being indeed.
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by namank 13y ago
Impossible. Anything with "blood glucose" on the labelling or even a hint of it will need FDA approval.
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by namank 13y ago
Sympathize with you! How would reduced accuracy really help you? I'm imagining that it could be worse since it could introduce anxiety...
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by namank 13y ago
Insert a few chunks of quiet time in your workday. Mission accomplished.
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by namank 13y ago
Why?
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by namank 13y ago
Not really. She qualified herself by saying: 1. she uses it all the time. 2. she hates it. As a founder, I am always looking for that combination in my users. The bonus was offering herself as the solution. I'll venture that his decis
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by namank 13y ago
Superfluous? Ok, so the face value of "sorry" implies apology but putting the situation in context it seems less a question of culpability and more of a shared sense of frustration against/for a common goal. How does it make
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All of the world's constitutions(constituteproject.org)
2 points by namank 13y ago|0 comments
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Fireside chat with Drew Houston(pandodaily.com)
2 points by namank 13y ago|0 comments
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by namank 13y ago
Most people looking for machine learning will be looking for the projects you have worked on. You can approach learning from several perspectives. Learning machine learning from abstract theory is one thing, there is also learning it as par

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