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by pcrh 12y ago
>No former entrepreneurs VC's In my experience this is the critical matter. The entrepreneurial business scene in London is dominated by the finance sector, which mostly involves shuttling money through various assets in order to ha
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by pcrh 12y ago
The major part of the value of domestic (as opposed to commercial) property is that of the land on which it sits, this is a non-productive use of that land (i.e. the land per se doesn't produce anything, unlike in agriculture). The mo
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by pcrh 12y ago
Those numbers are heavily influenced by the value of domestic property. Most Germans rent, for example. Further, storing wealth in domestic property is a poor use of money. Edit: If you look at countries by net financial wealth per adult, a
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by pcrh 12y ago
Technology. Mass surveillance was impracticable 20 years ago, and is now fairly easy (at least on the internet).
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by pcrh 12y ago
The point of statistical tests is to assess the accuracy of a prediction. These trials were not designed to predict/test the efficacy of the drug, therefore no conclusion regarding efficacy can be drawn. It is of course possible that
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by pcrh 12y ago
This kind of report is aimed at influencing the stockmarket, not at reporting success or failure of a particular therapy. As a Phase I trial, its stated goal is to determine if the treatment is harmful , not if it is beneficial, and to tes
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by pcrh 12y ago
>it's much harder for judges to sniff out people who didn't do original work in the biological sciences category This applies to biological research all this way up the chain, including research done at top Universities, and by
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by pcrh 12y ago
The problem for this watch is that its technology will be outdated in a few years at which point it becomes merely a bit of bling. High end mechanical watches on the other hand are not solely time-keeping devices, but mechanical marvels and
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by pcrh 12y ago
>its goal should be to bring a novel contribution to the state of the art in the field I would qualify that statement by saying that the goal of a PhD should be to demonstrate the ability to bring novel contributions, etc. It is imposs
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by pcrh 12y ago
>I would also like to see the recommended period for finishing a PhD extended to 7-10 years That is way too long. A PhD should only be long enough as is required for the average competent person to demonstrate their competence in researc
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by pcrh 12y ago
Quite. So it isn't really robots versus humans, but one algorithm versus another, the humans are using a method too.
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by pcrh 12y ago
But do the robots get bonuses...? I think not.
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by pcrh 12y ago
Did that open in Excel for you? It wouldn't for me...
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by pcrh 12y ago
That wouldn't open for me...
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by pcrh 12y ago
Awesome, thanks!
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by pcrh 12y ago
What percent of the US population is 1st or 2nd Gen immigrant? In the Bay Area, I would guess it is at least 50%.
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by pcrh 12y ago
By the way, I found the "Spark Notes" for "If Music be the food of love". It's a dreadful lump when the poetry is gone, but here it is: "If it’s true that music makes people more in love, keep playing. Give me
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by pcrh 12y ago
As to usage of "strain" in music, a quick search lead me to this article from the US dated 16 Feb 2015 [1] "When the trumpets blare and the snares rattle during the opening strain of John Phillip Souza’s The Washington Post M
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by pcrh 12y ago
What makes it harder to understand is not the vocabulary, but the grammar, as well as Shakespeare's sometimes idiosyncratic use of word meaning. For example, "strain" here means a portion of music, which while not its most c
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by pcrh 12y ago
To clarify: what is it that you do not understand about the posted passage?
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by pcrh 12y ago
Understanding the English-speaking world's most famous poet and playwriter might be beyond the abilities of some people, that is for sure. It doesn't mean, though, that the language used is deliberately obscure. I would estimate
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by pcrh 12y ago
Which words in that passage are not easily understandable? The most "obscure" one that I can identify is "notwithstanding" (Google gives 48,000,000 results for "notwithstanding", so it is not exactly an obscu
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by pcrh 12y ago
Most of Shakespeare's language is accessible to English speakers in England, Ireland, Australia, etc. There might be a few word here or there that are not widely understood ("bodkin" is not one of these, its meaning is gener
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by pcrh 12y ago
>50th percentile of word use at 93 words for English and 89 for French [1]. If I understand the meaning to that phrase correctly, it seems to be an extraordinarily useless measure
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by pcrh 12y ago
Generally, I find word clouds be be pretty useless anyway. They visually highlight the top few words (4 or 5 at most), but beyond that are obscure and uninformative.
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by pcrh 12y ago
Perhaps the reason is not the necessity to rhyme, but to be popular; being prolix might be a deterrent to popularity. Even if so, I find the conclusion unexpected, as Shakespeare not only had a wide popularity in his day, but also coined ma
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by pcrh 12y ago
As you say, the secret likely is not often the idea per se , as truly original ideas (i.e. potential Nobel prize-worthy ideas) are truly rare, and often difficult to recognize as such. They are much more rare than successful startups. So,
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by pcrh 12y ago
That's a surprising result. My previous view was that English vocabulary is based on Germanic as well as Latin roots, and so there there are often two terms with the same meaning, one which is subtly different in usage than the other.
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by pcrh 12y ago
I agree with this. Unfortunately it is against the common notions that ideas don't matter, and execution is all. My own take is that truly great ideas are as rare as hen's teeth, i.e.those that fulfill your description.
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Drug-delivery pioneer wins £1m engineering prize(bbc.co.uk)
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