nicholasdrake

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by nicholasdrake 12y ago
i don't have the numbers but it's very interesting u say that because one of my best friends and i are actually going to apply to this summer yc batch with our idea of 'human capital' where we pay for poor, but very brig
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by nicholasdrake 12y ago
would say the poor students who don't get free admission are credit constrained? can't they just get a loan?
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by nicholasdrake 12y ago
seems to imply that in old age say just 'go bat more' and with your constant probability of success you'll produce more good work (if only you could motivate yourself) but there may be a causality issue, where your motivation
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by nicholasdrake 12y ago
well i guess it's a question of how you make the game easier... either you make it easier in the virtual world (i.e. in a boxing game the punches come slower than a real life boxer would face), or you make it easier in the real world w
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by nicholasdrake 12y ago
haha what's your degree? i was pure economics with a focus on econometrics..
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by nicholasdrake 12y ago
actually with professional qualifications like accounting, programming, finance and even music grades,, because there is a centralized qualifications board students choose where they get their education (kaplan, etc. ) based on teaching qua
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by nicholasdrake 12y ago
i think this is a good proposal, zero-sum competitive dynamics means that people are always going to work really hard, but with your course limit idea at least those competitive dynamics won't be directed towards taking lots of modules
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by nicholasdrake 12y ago
i went to lse and the environment was supremely unsupportive. i think there are two fundamental problems with elite universities 1) because uni degree is a sorting/signalling function consumers have limited power. there is no other con
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by nicholasdrake 12y ago
yeah the problem is you want to somehow augment physical actions. no game is going to take off if all you do is move around at walking speed.. as palmer luckey has said a guy playing COD is not actually capable of doing all the stuff a real
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by nicholasdrake 12y ago
i like the idea of integrating the real and virtual worlds.. michael abrash has said that what gets him really excited isn't so much pure virtual reality but rather augmented reality - which is sort of what you're talking about, i
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by nicholasdrake 12y ago
this is really shocking.
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by nicholasdrake 12y ago
if self-driving cars become ubiquitous how does that change lyft and uber's business model? not unreasonable in a 10-20 year time frame right?
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by nicholasdrake 12y ago
i actually have taught some linear algebra concepts on youtube and have gotten several hundred thousand views and some positive feedback. i think the key is trying to figure out a framework of intuition to help students through all the math
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by nicholasdrake 12y ago
I thikn there is a startling amount of groupthink going on. If big corporations best way to be innovative is simply to copy the start-up model (probably badly) of small teams moving quickly then you lose all the benefits of a big company wh
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by nicholasdrake 12y ago
i used to need 8-10 hours but after reading tim ferriss' 4 hour body i nap 20 minutes 2/3x a day at my desk and only need to sleep 4/5 a night which is saving me 4/5 hours a day of sleep time.. i don't feel fabulous