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by shas3 10y ago
Just saying, working touch screens have been around on devices for 30 years or more. Most 'PDA's, including < $100 phonebooks had decent resistive touch screens as far back as the mid-90s. Also, as such, speech recognition too
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by shas3 10y ago
You are on to something. But a similar company in say, Ames, Iowa would also command similar attention, I think. Like Ames, the median education of people of Udupi and the region around it are actually much better than national medians. See
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by shas3 10y ago
You are comparing across industries. Apple is a mix of software and manufacturing. As is Samsung. VW is a car company. Further, a better metric is to look at % of revenue spent on R&D.
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by shas3 10y ago
All the classic mistakes of forecasting (like Jim Cramer on TV): 0. Doesn't assign probabilities to the prediction. 1. Doesn't consider alternative scenarios. 2. Doesn't allow for the possibility that he could be wrong.
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by shas3 10y ago
It makes one suspicious, to the say the least, to see someone from a politically well-connected family like Shriver interview someone similarly well-connected like Holmes. The odds are high that they know each other and have reasons to scra
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by shas3 10y ago
I've seen many of his interviews (e.g. with Arsenio Hall, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYK4o6o1YFo ), in real life he seems like the opposite of his stage personality: humble and dedicated to his art.
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by shas3 10y ago
Ok, second most successful after 2015.
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by shas3 10y ago
While on the topic of girls at Olympiads, one should also add Lisa Sauermann of Germany who is the most successful participant of all time at the International Math Olympiad. http://www.maa.org/news/math-news/germa
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by shas3 10y ago
For all the EPA fights that plague larger older companies (and many new ones, too), industrial safety and adherence to regulations is very deeply ingrained in their cultures. Heads roll pretty quickly for violations at lower levels. Even hi
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by shas3 10y ago
It would probably be counter to their revenue model if they had a separate domain for serious journalism.
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by shas3 11y ago
> I just find it odd that WSJ seems to get access to government documents, internal information, and competitor benchmarks over and over again. Umm, what's odd? FOIA? Perseverance in reporting? High quality investigative journalism
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by shas3 11y ago
Strange comment about Pittsburgh's diversity and strangeness! In my experience, outside Oakland, Shadyside, Squirrel Hill, perhaps Monroeville, and some working class neighborhoods, Pittsburgh is a fairly conservative South-US-ish city
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by shas3 11y ago
Shouldn't we all hold US to higher standards than MENA, etc.?
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by shas3 11y ago
People underestimate the importance of culture change. I hate this word, but there has to be a company-wide re-education if any company is serious about becoming more high-tech. Often, measures like opening a new R&D lab or pumping more
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Demand for H1B exceeds supply within 5 days(wsj.com)
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by shas3 11y ago
Eh? There are a lot of legit medical uses in automation of senior care, etc. There are products out there based on beacons.
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by shas3 11y ago
Not taking anything away from this very novel work, but MIT definitely has a well oiled PR apparatus to publicize their research. This is a good thing from the perspective of science advocacy and outreach. But it is less good from the persp
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by shas3 11y ago
The OP uses the term "accounting" but really talks about just bookkeeping.
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by shas3 11y ago
Did you even read the article? He quotes multiple philosophers and also only selectively quotes Confucius. His authoritarian ideas don't invalidate his other, good insights.
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by shas3 11y ago
That's begging the question. The argument for PLOS and Scientific Reports is that in an age where there are no constraints on size of journals, number of papers in a journal, effort required to sift through papers, etc. selecting for i
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by shas3 11y ago
I didn't claim anything about the peer reviewers' credentials! I said that if a person is from a big shot pedigree or from a top school, it certainly helps in a situation where a paper or proposal is as good. It is a common flaw i
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by shas3 11y ago
1995 http://www.nature.com/news/scientific-publishing-the-inside-...
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by shas3 11y ago
I have hovered in EE, CS, and math circles. I find CS and math to be made up of more genuinely curious folks than EE. But this comment and my parent comment are just a few points of observations, too few to generalize from. But, once you ge
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by shas3 11y ago
That is a common misconception. http://www.pnas.org/site/misc/reviewprocess.pdf
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by shas3 11y ago
Academia has the most severe hierarchical system out there. There is also an insane amount of unjustified credentialism. Unjustified because so much depends on luck that things like " swoon that researcher published in PNAS" are
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by shas3 11y ago
Websites with reviews are doing a disservice to users by not giving us tabulated reviews and tools to view detailed statistics. I'm reminded of 538's impressive interactive data exploration pages.
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by shas3 11y ago
I wonder, earnestly, on a tangent: how do you ensure the authenticity of Glassdoor reviews? What's the guarantee that people are not faking good reviews? They should probably implement a system of employment verification.
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by shas3 11y ago
I don't see the point of this article. The analogies presented are only true to a very vague extent. It needlessly jargon-ifies simple concepts. It reminds me of Feynman's criticism of too much jargon being used to teach math [1]:
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by shas3 11y ago
IMHO, it would be fair to criticize this piece for poor editing. The writing feels a bit rough in places. There are sentences and paragraphs which can be considerably abbreviated to be more readable. Further, the article's flow is a bi
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by shas3 11y ago
Can we un-capitalize "Nuance"? For a second I thought it refers to the speech technologies company.

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