nkkar

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by nkkar 5y ago
> when you think about the idea that everything up until now on the internet has been copyable and we are just starting to figure out how to actually give a digital thing ownership, that will change how we look at just about everything o
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by nkkar 10y ago
> On the other hand my Apple News feed seems to perpetually have a FOX News story. The one this morning was "Is Trump Bashing the new Celeb nude selfie?" > All I know is the people who seem prone to believing the stupidest s
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by nkkar 10y ago
Your followup post ( http://www.johnmyleswhite.com/notebook/2013/03/22/using-norm... ) is excellent. Thank you!
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by nkkar 10y ago
ROC curve is the true positive rate vs false positive rate, which directly address sensitivity & specificity.
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by nkkar 10y ago
I think he means to say the article is hyperbolic
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by nkkar 10y ago
I suppose it depends on your investment goals, profile, etc. If you hold the general thesis that "the future" will see continued "progress", increased living standards & more consumers, then it's probably a good
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by nkkar 10y ago
Any reading recommendations?
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by nkkar 10y ago
The former, if all things remain the same in terms of computing power and availability of data. I think betting against improvement in either of those areas is a bad bet so I'm optimistic we'll continue to see really interesting t
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by nkkar 10y ago
Ah, yes, that makes sense, thank you!
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by nkkar 10y ago
Would this mean that the currency would never fluctuate below that price point?
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by nkkar 10y ago
I loved this admission. There is a lot of awesome, powerful, fancy stuff out there today, but you can get a lot done with the vanilla approach. I was introduced to JS back when AJAX was 'blowing up', and today still prefer to hack
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by nkkar 10y ago
I see this timeline comparison very often and it seems to me very hand wavy. Sure, it's a nice narrative, but I don't see any real reasons why this 'pattern' from 70s to 00s should repeat itself. We're talking 30 od