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by njwi332 9y ago
GP is probably referring to the fact that google blocked the youtube app from working on Alexa devices. https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/05/google-is-pulling-youtube-...
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by njwi332 9y ago
What are some examples of established firms that would be good places to learn?
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by njwi332 9y ago
I'll second this. 4 companies across three years before landing at Amazon.
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by njwi332 9y ago
In some ways this might show the steady state of a developed economy. Other developed nations are growing in large part through immigration - if the whole world was developed and there was nowhere for immigrants to come from, it's not
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by njwi332 9y ago
As someone who has worked for the 'Ama' part of that portmanteau for the last 2 years, and before that 5 smaller companies. I would say it is a strange but not bad combination of being a cog + having autonomy. I feel like a cog in
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by njwi332 10y ago
Don't forget radioactive waste/byproducts. That will be around for a long time, and thinking about how future humans might interact with it is an interesting problem. I wrote a little about it http://stochastication.com
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by njwi332 10y ago
If anyone is interested in infrastructure, I highly recommend "On the Grid" ( https://www.amazon.com/Grid-Average-Neighborhood-Systems-Wor... ) Excellent book that goes over all the systems making up a city. I read
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by njwi332 10y ago
> As for Japanese, the kana alphabet can be transcribed to Alphabet without information loss Not quite true in reverse - lead and read, for example, would have the same kana but are different in english. That said, yeah I totally agree,
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by njwi332 10y ago
Interesting, thanks for the input
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Predicting the 2014 FIFA Finals Winner with Logistic Regression(stochastication.com)
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by njwi332 10y ago
Paying off a loan that has 6% annual interest is mathematically equivalent to investing money that has 6% guaranteed return. When you look at it that way it's a great incentive to pay off debt
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by njwi332 11y ago
Actually a regression analysis is a great example of something people often use incorrectly. I have a degree in stats and someone at work who is self taught from a 'use the tools' perspective was trying to use these frameworks to
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by njwi332 11y ago
The main difference, and reason why your analogy isn't entirely accurate, is that while with games you can see when things aren't working, when using ML or stats you will _always_ get a number. Whether or not that number is meanin
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by njwi332 11y ago
I don't think it does contradict anything he says about being customer focused. In my opinion, and experience, it doesn't mean 'completely ignore your competitors and sell their products on your own store', it means &#x2
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by njwi332 11y ago
Not really, it doesn't mean 'completely ignore your competitors and sell their products on your own store', it means 'Develop your products by listening to what customers tell you and not by watching and copying what you