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by shoguning 6y ago
> The DARPA grand challenges have bootstrapped: I have a contrarian opinion about the impact of DARPA and related programs (ARPA-e especially). To some extent, there is a confusion of cause and effect. DARPA is good at identifying possib
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by shoguning 7y ago
I wrestle with this too, there's a lot of context to determine what skillset is better. I suspect, if there are lots of relatively simple ML problems, then a generalist with integration chops will be more effective in getting them out
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by shoguning 7y ago
This judgment sounds big but it can be appealed and Caltech may never collect a penny. A $200 million judgment against Apple was thrown out less than 2 years ago [1]. Most tech transfer programs at universities don't break even, they u
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by shoguning 7y ago
Exome could plausibly change due to alternative splicing, but my guess is that what is meant here is transcriptome, which is which genes are actually transcribed and their quantities. Unfortunately RNA is chemically unstable. Not sure if cD
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by shoguning 7y ago
The big ones I don't see are: Plenty - Indoor agriculture (raised over $200m) [ https://www.plenty.ag ] Pivot Bio - Nitrogen fixation with engineered microbes [ https://www.pivotbio.com/ ]
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by shoguning 7y ago
As far as I can tell, students are not counted as in the labor force. Therefore, as more people pursue advanced degrees and other training later in life, labor force participation drops. Is this a bad thing? Hard to say.
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by shoguning 8y ago
Possible... but I don't think so. I believe the hatred is pretty visceral. For one Taleb is/was pro-Trump, Silver definitely not. Taleb, despite being a professor/author/elite in his own way is pretty anti-elitist in rhe
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by shoguning 8y ago
Exactly. Plumbing improves my quality of life way more than the internet.
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by shoguning 8y ago
I've heard the assertion that utopianism is bad, but what about it is bad? Certainly, we should be able to strive for improvement, in ourselves and society? The problem with utopianism is the desire to create a new society out of whole
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by shoguning 8y ago
> Yeah, and if you ever had to leave the city, it was a multi-day dangerous journey by horse-back to get anywhere. Not so much. There used to be inter-city rail that people used regularly. This old railroad map ( https://www.lo
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by shoguning 8y ago
Frankly, I think the piece is poorly written, and thus hard to critique. But I _think_ what the author is saying is that we need good urban design everywhere, not just in downtowns. That would benefit everyone. Ie, if you make necessities a
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by shoguning 8y ago
The same thing is happening in data science, just at an earlier stage. There are software/service providers like H2O and RapidMiner that automate the whole model selection/optimization/productionization process. It will take
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by shoguning 8y ago
There is so much good that price transparency would do. Most treatments are not emergency and you can absolutely shop around even if it's not cosmetic. Ever hear of medical tourism? It's not a perfectly 'free market', bu
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by shoguning 8y ago
Where to begin? 1) Universities, and I mean through official channels, are not great at creating startups. I'd rather they focus on basic research. No, Google was not started 'by' Stanford, etc. The biggest company I know of
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by shoguning 8y ago
You can remove correlated predictors or do stepwise regression to get a minimal model with more intelligible coefficients. The problem is it's still difficult to determine direction of causality. That's why controlled experiments
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by shoguning 8y ago
Whether it's supposed to or not, that's how it's viewed. Also viewed as an economic ladder by lots of people including low-income and minority.
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by shoguning 8y ago
IMO there is a difference between K-12 and higher ed. K-12 is actually more about enforcing cultural norms of dilligence, punctuality and ideally some civic norms. Higher ed (paraphrasing Peter Thiel) is a mix between insurance and a tourna
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by shoguning 8y ago
Agreed, further: >every significant clinical study of drugs and dietary supplements for the treatment or prevention of cardiovascular disease between 1974 and 2012 There is room for a lot of bias when selecting which studies are 'si
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by shoguning 8y ago
It is not unreasonable--but that is the average case. Many students live with family and keep costs low. Costs can be much higher than that for individual students depending on circumstances.
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College Students Spend $141B per Year on College Costs (Visualization)(theclassroom.com)
5 points by shoguning 8y ago|3 comments
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by shoguning 8y ago
The overall economics of small mid-tier universities is getting drastically worse--a few exceptions notwithstanding. I expect a lot more closures and consolidations as tuition competition increases and students become more hesitant to take
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by shoguning 8y ago
Hobbies can be just for enjoyment. If you're not growing in some area of your life though (relationships, family, career, hobby, knowledge) you're stagnating.
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Show HN: Words on experienced vs. novice resumes, an analysis(github.com)
1 points by shoguning 8y ago|0 comments
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by shoguning 8y ago
I would include more cities on this list. For starters, LA/NY/Boston/Seattle. The software scene in Los Angeles is great right now. I don't have first-hand knowledge of the other cities but they definitely have the reput
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by shoguning 8y ago
Interesting, but isn't it also a potential bottleneck at the other side of the network? I.e.: NBCSport has fatter pipes/less congestion than YouTube?
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by shoguning 8y ago
The design and density of cities will change even in the Midwest. Inter-city transport can and will change. From Wikipedia: "There was a dense system of inter-city railways in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
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by shoguning 8y ago
Bike commuting growth has stopped/reversed in most places in the US in the last couple of years: https://usa.streetsblog.org/2017/09/14/bike-commuting-growth... My worry is that there actually aren'
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by shoguning 8y ago
Nice article, but I fear North Americans just don't care by and large. I've had some passing involvement with bike advocacy and have been a bike commuter in Los Angeles for the past six years. My impression is that in the early 20
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by shoguning 8y ago
Yes. It depends on delivery, but it can come across very snobby when class differences may be involved. I've noticed when talking to 'upper class' people they often lead with asking about occupation, as if they're trying
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by shoguning 8y ago
Yeah, I disagree with FORD totally. FORD is heavy and personal. The point of small talk is that it's small and light. You have to make sure you trust a person before you start talking about personal stuff. Small talk is about progressi

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