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by skndr 9y ago
The other relevant parts: > What are three things that turn you off when entrepreneurs pitch to you. The first is founders who don’t know their numbers. I am talking about the post early stage company that has launched a product and h
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by skndr 9y ago
The tangled part is actually mostly 2mm thickness on the surface[0]. That's why the folds matter so much: [0] https://28oa9i1t08037ue3m1l0i861-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-... Check out this article for a pretty cool ove
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[video] Parasitic Programming Languages(infoq.com)
2 points by skndr 9y ago|0 comments
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by skndr 9y ago
Any hints about future improvements for open set speaker diarization?
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by skndr 9y ago
Interesting. Is Alexa the primary provider for speech recognition?
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by skndr 10y ago
Why do you think that might be? I can imagine that requiring others to open their source makes their implementation verifiable.
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How Vector Space Mathematics Reveals the Hidden Sexism in Language(technologyreview.com)
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by skndr 10y ago
I imagine it's more fun to play with many more interesting pieces. > Yet, in spite of this, after playing Really Bad Chess for the past week, I’ve found myself with a much better understanding of the game, and how the various pieces
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by skndr 10y ago
Mike has been one of the most genuine and helpful people I've met - always offering to lend an ear or offer suggestions and feedback. It must be really difficult to stop doing something that's been such a core part of your effort
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by skndr 10y ago
I read it as "...I have to think YC [can someday be] hugely important to that growth," not that it already was. That said, although VC funding might be a small percentage of investment overall, it has a leveraged impact on the eco
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by skndr 10y ago
Github: https://github.com/ajbrock/Neural-Photo-Editor
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Neural Photo Editor(youtube.com)
2 points by skndr 10y ago|2 comments
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by skndr 10y ago
Fair enough! Perhaps "also known as..." would have been better.
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by skndr 10y ago
Now known as a state of flow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)
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by skndr 10y ago
I built this thing if you want to follow along. Unfortunately no video, but at least you can copy the text: https://jotengine.com/t/elon
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YC Changes(blog.ycombinator.com)
516 points by skndr 10y ago|131 comments
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by skndr 11y ago
I'm really enjoying this. Great set of default samples, it seems to limit the paradox of choice. I also can't resist sharing mine: http://sampulator.com/skandermz/cruisin
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by skndr 11y ago
Sure, though you can't extrapolate future technological improvements from past performance (that's what makes investing in tech difficult). Just as one discovery enables many, human-level AI that can do its own AI research could s
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by skndr 11y ago
Improvements in AI aren't linear, though. Artificial Superintelligence, after reaching AGI, might happen in the span of minutes or days. I imagine the idea here is to guide progress so that on the day that AGI is possible, we've a
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Agar.io(agar.io)
6 points by skndr 11y ago|1 comments
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by skndr 12y ago
For this analogy, a bill should actually be a pull request and a signed law is a merged request. I think the problem is that an 'issue' should be a proposal, a bug report, etc. In this case, none of the 'issues' being cr
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by skndr 12y ago
The other efficient forms of propulsion actually require you to be in space due to low thrust-to-weight. Chemical rockets get us off the planet first.
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The Secret Recordings of Carmen Segarra (former Regulator at the NY Fed)[audio](m.thisamericanlife.org)
1 points by skndr 12y ago|0 comments
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by skndr 12y ago
Conversely, you might be able to iterate faster with a 'web' language and create a product people really use in a shorter time frame and worry about scaling later!
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by skndr 12y ago
This is a Common Sense Fallacy[0]. Playing devil's advocate, the result could have been that CEO pay was very well correlated with performance. The company doing well can justify a higher compensation. Of course, this is probably the a
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60 Words [audio](radiolab.org)
1 points by skndr 12y ago|0 comments
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by skndr 12y ago
> He paid a steep price for the estimated $12.5 million in losses inflicted on financial institutions and the $5 million Subway spent upgrading its cyber security systems. Seems a bit silly to say they're annoyed that they had to
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Excerpt from Apollo 11 [audio](soundcloud.com)
2 points by skndr 13y ago|0 comments
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by skndr 13y ago
It's a simple solution if you don't want to spend a lot of time on a name. It means you can get back to providing an amazing service or product all that much quicker.
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by skndr 13y ago
Founders aren't fungible.

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