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by rywang 16y ago
Microsoft Research is one of the top 10 computer science research organizations in the world. Some of the work done there (such as the Kinect) is game changing and will continue to be a resource Microsoft can draw upon. As an MIT PhD stude
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by rywang 16y ago
It is easier to acquire specialized skills in computer vision and machine learning in grad school than in industry. I've also personally had a good experience incubating technology during my PhD, although this depends on your advisor and y
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by rywang 16y ago
The levamisole test kits should be made available to the smugglers. If the smugglers knew they were shipping (detectably) impure cocaine, there would be pressure on the producers to stop cutting the product. (... and a little voice in my h
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"Four Steps to the Epiphany" (lean startup) summary
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by rywang 16y ago
The author, Aaron Swartz, harps on the fact that the film doesn't show enough teaching and instead "hides behind charts and graphs." The author would rather the film show "terrified kids up on the big screen." This seems to me like favori
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How Alien Astronomers Would See Our Solar System (NASA)(youtube.com)
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by rywang 16y ago
I had trouble following Fred's logic. I follow his argument about VC collusion: a competitive market and unwillingness to syndicate leads to less collusion. However, his statement about angels boils down to, "I know most of these investor
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Steven Johnson: Where Good Ideas Come From(youtube.com)
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by rywang 16y ago
It baffles me that someone can accurately assess that "you are strong in searchlight intelligence." It seems so difficult to measure. I can't imagine claiming that at an interview and supporting it with a few anecdotes.
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Vision of America in 2016, written in 2005(theatlantic.com)
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by rywang 16y ago
I've always wondered about the effectiveness of courses that claim to teach "Management" or "Negotiation" or "Networking." There's certainly theory to these subjects and practicing in a contrived setting may help, but I suspect there are fa
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by rywang 16y ago
I think Scott's recommendation would be to buy a used bike. The analogy is to not build a new house, but to move into an old one. (This of course has its limits.)
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by rywang 16y ago
"For the first year and a half, none of our 13 employees received a paycheck." How did she find / convince 13 people willing to work off of sweat equity?
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Minerals in Afghanistan not news: NYTimes gets played by military(theatlantic.com)
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by rywang 16y ago
IMHO, semi-autonomous robotic control is one of the holy grails of CS. Robotics hardware is maturing rapidly, but the software algorithms for visual sensing, planning and manipulation aren't there yet. This is standing in the way of robots
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by rywang 16y ago
As a PhD student at MIT with many friends at Stanford, I'd like to say that both schools provide an abundance of opportunities for an engineering student to choose a less specialist path: business school classes, leadership in student organ
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by rywang 16y ago
Part of what makes the pictures so striking is that I constantly have to remind myself these are not modern men and women in costume.
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How Steven Chu Used Gamma Rays to Diagnose the BP Oil Spill(theatlantic.com)
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Inside Google's Plan to Save the News(theatlantic.com)
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by rywang 17y ago
Who all on HN is at MIT right now? Despite MIT's reputation for entrepreneurship, it's been difficult to find collaborators actually willing to take the start-up plunge--perhaps especially in grad school.
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Planet hunting: the search for a second Earth gets serious(economist.com)
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Robust Single-View Geometry And Motion Reconstruction(people.agg.ethz.ch)
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by rywang 17y ago
Richard Stallman frequents our lab-wide mailing list (csail-related@lists.csail.mit.edu) and once explained how he browses the web: "My access to web pages is by sending mail to a server which does the equivalent of wget and mails them back
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Cool computer graphics research: SIGGRAPH 2009 Technical Papers Preview video(youtube.com)
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Faster Maintenance with Augmented Reality(technologyreview.com)
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Mouse 2.0: Multi-touch Meets the Mouse (Best paper at UIST)(youtube.com)
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Fence Wire, Flying Bedsteads and 36KB: What Got Us to the Moon(correspondents.theatlantic.com)
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Garrison Keillor On Power Ambition Glory(forbes.com)
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