navanit

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Ask HN: Feedback on my Apps search engine: AppsVu(appsvu.com)
1 points by navanit 17y ago|0 comments
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by navanit 17y ago
Are you planning to change or qualify this current post based on this thread?
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Palm introduces Palm Pre Plus: 16GB, coming to Verizon on January 25th(engadget.com)
8 points by navanit 17y ago|1 comments
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What's the value of your (free) time?(marginalrevolution.com)
1 points by navanit 17y ago|0 comments
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The Gene Bubble: Why We Still Aren't Disease-Free(fastcompany.com)
6 points by navanit 17y ago|2 comments
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by navanit 17y ago
Is your email ID in your HN profile current? It just bounced.
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by navanit 17y ago
Thanks! I'll email you.
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Ask HN: I want to start a vertical ad network, any recommendations for tools?
3 points by navanit 17y ago|3 comments
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by navanit 17y ago
Yes, Anders Ericsson is the authority on the subject: http://www.psy.fsu.edu/faculty/ericsson.dp.html Here's the paper "The role of deliberate practice in the acquisition of expertise": http://projects.ict.usc.edu/itw/gel/EricssonDeliber
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Why Speculate?(michaelcrichton.net)
2 points by navanit 17y ago|0 comments
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Rich Harvard, Poor Harvard(vanityfair.com)
24 points by navanit 17y ago|2 comments
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Speechless: Dilbert Creator's Struggle to Regain His Voice(wired.com)
156 points by navanit 17y ago|21 comments
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by navanit 17y ago
There's an implicit assumption in his argument that the mean is stable and finite. This need not be the case, and is often not the case with tail events under power-law distributions: http://navanitarakeri.com/Diversification.pdf Also see
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by navanit 17y ago
My comment on the blog repeated here: "You correctly assume that the distribution follows a power-law, but you apply an arbitrary constraint on the maximum ($5bn). You constrained the maximum and then concluded that the distribution is not
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by navanit 18y ago
I'm assuming you're referring to Jean-Philippe Bouchaud and Marc Potters. Taleb does give credit to them in terms of them understanding the presence of fat tails and focussing on the failure of the gaussian. However, both Bouchaud and Potte
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by navanit 18y ago
Thanks. Maybe I wasn't clear enough: No, I'm not just repackaging the results from the APIs. There's significant NLP layered on top of that. It's not even a core offering of the app actually. W.r.t investments, I did not mean investments in
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by navanit 18y ago
In these fat-tailed environments it is better to go for breadth as opposed to depth. VCs have better risk-adjusted returns than entrepreneurs. See Taleb's ideas on this, as well as: http://navanitarakeri.com/Diversification.pdf and: htt
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The Ultimate Bubble?(vanityfair.com)
15 points by navanit 18y ago|5 comments
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by navanit 18y ago
I'd like to learn more about how you're making this work. I'd like to take the same approach, but am worried about sustainability. I'd appreciate it if you could get in touch. My profile has my email.
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How I quit Caffeine (with limited impact to productivity)(bricolagelabs.com)
3 points by navanit 18y ago|1 comments
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by navanit 18y ago
For what it's worth, here's my own successful attempt at giving up caffeine: http://www.bricolagelabs.com/experiments/3-quitting-caffeine It has day-by-day descriptions of symptoms etc. I was back to normal faster than expected, but I use
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Ask YC: What is your backup in case your startup fails?
2 points by navanit 18y ago|2 comments
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Specialization Risk(fractalpress.com)
5 points by navanit 18y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Can you truly get behind an idea that's not your own?
12 points by navanit 18y ago|18 comments
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Ask YC: In exchange for giving up a 5% stake, would you accept $25,000 today or $50,000 6 months from now?
2 points by navanit 18y ago|4 comments
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Is Amazon S3 pricing the risk of catastrophic data loss?(fractalpress.com)
1 points by navanit 19y ago|0 comments
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by navanit 19y ago
Thanks. We just happen to be starting with Personal Finance, in general, would you buy a real book that happens to be an anthology of the top blog posts from your favorite topic? And if you're a blogger, would you be willing to participate
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by navanit 19y ago
I'm the co-founder. Would love to get feedback. Looking forward to hearing about what you think is the good/bad/ugly. Thanks.
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Startup feedback request: Fractal Press - We publish anthologies of blog posts(fractalpress.com)
4 points by navanit 19y ago|5 comments