newfocogi

13 ms·

121.
by newfocogi 8y ago
The author supports the title of the article based on the Tesla Q2 report that the Prius has been the most common trade-in for the model 3. When I drive daily in a sea of Prii (pl. of Prius), and I get excited when I see a few model 3'
122.
by newfocogi 8y ago
I think this concept is address well in Neil Postman's "Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change" [1] [1] http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/classes/188/materials/pos...
123.
by newfocogi 8y ago
Although this is true of stateful code, I think an even more fundamental, but related, reason to reduce state is this: code that is stateless always behaves the same way so it can be characterized and reused more easily than code that chang
124.
by newfocogi 8y ago
Well optimized, high volume autonomous taxi services could be revolutionary: imagine if cars being parked went from being the norm to being an rarity. Instead of 90% of cars in cities being parked, there could be drastically higher usage ra
125.
by newfocogi 8y ago
I think Musk's quip that most people would want their own personal flying taxi, but no one wants their neighbor to have one, is pretty insightful. As building density increases and our structures continue to scale in the third dimensio
126.
by newfocogi 8y ago
Coincidentally, in most ways DVDs fit your requirements.
127.
by newfocogi 8y ago
This 100x! Falling in love with "making things" in my mind might the single most important trait to be come a successful entrepreneur. The other trait might be "insatiable curiosity", but I think someone who "makes
128.
by newfocogi 8y ago
I can only speak from personal experience, but I have noticed that I easily get excited to learn a shiny new tool or skill, but once I have basic familiarity with it, my eagerness dries up because all that was driving my desire to learn was
129.
by newfocogi 8y ago
Does Juul do any advertising? One of the biggest problems I see in the historical tobacco industry was how subversive the advertising was. I wonder if Juul goes down a similar path.
130.
by newfocogi 8y ago
The more I watch the crypto space, the more I observe that it has developed an inherently misaligned set of incentives. The people who are creating headlines for each new approach are the ones who have already bought in and will benefit mos
131.
by newfocogi 8y ago
I just asked several friends, all millennials, if they thought snapchat use was declining among their friend groups (semi disparate), and all said no and were surprised I asked. Obviously a biased sample, but just another data point.
132.
by newfocogi 8y ago
I agree that this text is great for machine learning theory, but often times non-students learn better through learning tools while solving real problems, rather than focusing on theory. Scikit-learn is an amazing tool for facilitating prob
133.
by newfocogi 8y ago
Not a biology expert, but how do you prevent mutations from ruining the data? If the DNA isn't being biologically replicated, why use DNA over any other 4 distinct chemical structures that can be added to chains or lattices of molecule
134.
by newfocogi 8y ago
I would guess it is closer to the cost of 1 engineer, maybe below. Conservative estimate of the average engineer at a company in the bay area is above 100K in cash compensation plus the cost multiplier of an employee is easily 2x once you a