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by pessimist 14y ago
Bullshit. She has plenty of informative graphs and useful numbers. The worst powerpoint presentations are ones that are content-free - this one could be accused of too much content.
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by pessimist 14y ago
I think this 100x rule is not unique to software. Consider athletes for example. The best athletes are much much better than the merely very good. For example, the top tennis player would defeat the 500th best every single time barely losin
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by pessimist 14y ago
What stood out to me from watching the presentation was the incredible integrity of the physicists involved. The CMS group had 2 sets of data with > 5 sigma significance, but chose to also show weaker data that actually reduced the sign
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by pessimist 14y ago
They have certainly found something that is very close to the Higgs Boson predicted by the standard model of particle physics. How do they know its the Higgs? http://blog.vixra.org/2012/06/24/higgs-discovery-on-the-brin... There are some
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by pessimist 14y ago
> So the situation is perhaps a little cumbersome, but no worse than C. Actually, this is not totally true. C has pre-processor and void * which allows for simple generic data structures with no performance impact. go ties your hands h
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by pessimist 14y ago
Go has some really great features, I've written a few thousand lines in it and enjoyed it, but there are some strange hangups that the go designers have that in the end make me think its going to go nowhere. 1. Rob Pike is immensely proud t
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A Tour of Go - Real examples of interfaces and concurrency(research.swtch.com)
150 points by pessimist 14y ago|13 comments
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by pessimist 14y ago
No - net income in the 3 months ending Mar 2012 declined to $205m from $233m in the 3 months ending Mar 2011. A big surprise, probably some big investment in datacenters or something. Net income can be rather bumpy, revenue growth was more
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by pessimist 15y ago
I'm not trying to spin this to make GOOG look good, but I would love to be able to spend $1 and get $1 back as profit in addition to my $1.
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by pessimist 15y ago
First you said - "It's easier for Google to just withdraw money from it's own bank account and deposit it to another one and call it "net income"." This is absolute nonsense, and what I was responding to. It may well be that increasing TAC
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by pessimist 15y ago
No. According to David Drummond's postscript to http://investor.google.com/corporate/2012/founders-letter.ht... : "Larry, Sergey and Eric have agreed to subject their shares to a Transfer Restriction Agreement. This agreement will maintain
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by pessimist 15y ago
Net income is after subtracting TAC. Revenues increased by $2.1b, so Google paid $500m to acquire $2.1b in revenue. Of the $1.6b in "real" revenue growth, they made around $600m in profits. In other words their profit margin is roughly 40%.
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by pessimist 15y ago
Do you have a reference for survival rates? Note that there are many confounding factors - lung cancer incidence has dropped a lot although lung cancer itself remains intractable to average cancer survival rates may have improved.
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by pessimist 15y ago
The most likely explanation is random noise, and that this experiment will not be repeatable. Sadly almost all psychology studies are like this, an odd result thata is most likely statistical noise.
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by pessimist 15y ago
RedHat's $1m stock is his only big payout, apparently. Rather sad, considering the number of mid-level facebook engineers who will become many times as rich in a few months.
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by pessimist 15y ago
Agree with vangale, also a disruption is something that would likely cause an entire set of jobs/companies to be irrelevant, I don't see that here.
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by pessimist 15y ago
I wouldnt classify this as a disruption - more like a useful middleman.
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by pessimist 15y ago
Valid reasons to quit Google, but then he joins Microsoft?
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Unprecedented video look at Google's Search Quality Review Meeting.(searchengineland.com)
12 points by pessimist 15y ago|0 comments
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by pessimist 15y ago
My 5 year old has been using his iPad since he was 4, and we've encountered all these problems and more. The funny thing though is that he learnt to work around all of them! Accidentally presses menu, after a couple of times he learns what
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IBM researchers create (relatively) long-lived qubits(marketwatch.com)
1 points by pessimist 15y ago|0 comments
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by pessimist 15y ago
In defense of Google, I think their machine translation is highly underrated, its simply incredible how good it is, at least for European languages. As is their contribution to building large data centers and manipulating large amounts of d
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by pessimist 15y ago
Agreed, its the nature of science. That's why theory is so important and why physicists pay as much importance to non-experimental features like "beauty" when judging theories. Experiments cannot be trusted unless explained by theory!
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by pessimist 15y ago
The real issue is that experiments that give "expected" results are not subject to this kind of scrutiny. Thus experiments are much less trustworthy than one would assume. It sometimes takes decades for errors in experiments to come out - e
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by pessimist 15y ago
So by using a custom compiler someone speeded up an unspecified benchmark by 20%. Is this news?
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by pessimist 15y ago
Facebook will never grow revenue to 10x (matching Google) by continuing to sell display advertising on its own site. However, it knows so much about users and keeps them logged in, so it definitely has potential to serve highly targeted or
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by pessimist 15y ago
Interestingly, Google 2011 revenues are $37b, profits $9.7b, ratio almost exactly the same. Google also has 10x the number of employees as FB. Of course FB growth is much faster.
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by pessimist 15y ago
Googler here - thanks for the real example query. Could you confirm if the query [nfc championship game] is still showing the MG Siegler post, or if it appeared only for a short while during the game. Thanks!
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by pessimist 15y ago
Thanks Google, small but symbolic. Disappointed that Facebook/twitter appear to be relatively quiet. Facebook especially is immensely influential now. Perhaps they feel anything that hurts Google is good for them?
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by pessimist 15y ago
Hmm, "Our Milky Way galaxy contains a minimum of 100 billion planets according to a detailed statistical study based on the detection of three extrasolar planets by an observational technique called microlensing." So we looked in 3 places,

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