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by pseut 13y ago
OP: If you want to come up with awesome, fundable ideas, go work for large companies with deep pockets that have old and archaic processes and few highly-technical and dynamic problem solvers. Identify the inefficiencies, make friends wit
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Much ado about MOOCs(bostonreview.net)
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Good luck! I think you'll find a lot of different opinions depending who you talk to, which makes it kind of hard to give better and more specific ideas.
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Talk to grad students; more time, fewer commitments, still very knowledgeable, but with less "turf" to defend.
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If you don't get better answers and you're at or near a university... you could do a lot worse than spend a few hours browsing the faculty websites in departments related to your interests. Look for assistant or associate profess
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Not really. There are millions of people who let their preconceptions screw up health treatments. Very few of them have accomplished as much as Jobs.
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That may be, for lack of a better word, muscle memory/reflex for some people. I found out last semester, when I wrote out lecture notes on an ipad that there are many words I literally forgot how to spell. I can type them, and I can
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by pseut 13y ago
"if people get denied for normal stuff (overstaying, violating their visas, etc) they're told and can at least fight it a little." I think this is true when the person is in the country but when they're not they can&#x27
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This sort of event is shameful and near-indefensible but not new. If you're a foreign grad student in the US, be aware that this sort of thing happens all the time, and even trivial visa issues take a long time to resolve.
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From a predictive standpoint, that's not necessarily an error. Think of it as "the larger your network, the higher priority to investigate for terrorism."
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IIRC the netflix prize is about making predictions for individual users based on their history & interests, which is orders of magnitude harder than making a prediction for the average over all users, which is all that you need for box
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"it seems like the NSA slides overstate how much access they have" This strikes me as pretty implausible; verifying the extent of their access to someone's gmail or facebook account seems like something the NSA should be able
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by pseut 13y ago
ChatSecure and IM+ both support OTR instant-messaging on the iphone, so depending on what you mean by "like that"... yes. ChatSecure is opensource too fwiw: https://github.com/chrisballinger/Off-the-Record-iO
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by pseut 13y ago
I'm getting the same thing with Konqueror edit: same thing = same problem
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I understand and somewhat agree with your point, but sometimes people anticipate that, given the incentives of the job, they're unlikely to be any better than anyone else when push comes to shove (your pt 2). Think of "golden han
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by pseut 13y ago
Unless it's been fixed in the 8 minutes since you posted, it does say 404 error in the graphic (in a thin font, though, so it's hard to see). I agree that it should be in the page title, be more visible, and explain what "404
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by pseut 13y ago
You think the "for the novice blogger" part won't turn off serious bloggers?
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It's a poor example. If I were black, I'd be pretty unconcerned about the possibility of my friends and family thinking I'm a Klansman, no matter what my phone records say.
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Not submissions.
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That's exactly my concern about google/yahoo/zoho/whatever.
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Since dice.
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IMO it started to degrade pretty quickly once the 2003-2005 cohort started to have babies. That pushed extended family, etc. to join to see baby pictures, etc. But I agree somewhat about the apps too, especially the way the games were int
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by pseut 13y ago
Would you mind adding a few details on how you set this up (I'm assuming that you're using 'listserv' as a generic term)? Is it on your own machine, through a web host, etc? I've thought about doing something just like that, but haven't sp
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by pseut 13y ago
That's fine, and it may very well be the case. But I don't think that the rest of the quotation is so profoundly different that just posting the first sentence misrepresents the quote. It sounds like you're saying that the first part of th
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by pseut 13y ago
The first part implies that they're bad, even with the additional context. If there are other quotes that make your point cleanly, I think they'd be more convincing evidence.
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by pseut 13y ago
You misread me. I said the first sentence doesn't add to or change the meaning of the second. You're saying the second does change the first. If he wanted to make your point unambiguously, he could/should have left off the first sentence.
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by pseut 13y ago
I don't see how it's a misrepresentation. Schmidt could have left out, "If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place" without changing the substance of the rest of the message
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I may have read it differently, but I don't think the big pain point was literally the box, but that it was just a stand in for all of the uncertainty that comes with selling something. As someone who doesn't sell stuff online, I'd definit
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by pseut 13y ago
For a sequence of independent random variables with the same variance, X_1, X_2,..., we have var( (1/sqrt(n)) * (X_1 + X_2 + X_3 + ... X_n) = (1/n) * (var(X_1) + var(X_2) + ... var(X_n)) = (1/n) * n * var(X_1) = var(X_1)
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by pseut 13y ago
If we're going to pick nits, it would illustrate the "Weak" LLN, not the Strong LLN. The Strong LLN still holds here, but you'd need to plot the sample paths to illustrate it.

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