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by snewe 17y ago
John Cochrane (economist) has some excellent tips on writing for PhD students: http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/john.cochrane/research/Paper...
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by snewe 17y ago
Biden dreams of a wonderful new way to travel: "Imagine boarding a train in the center of a city. No racing to an airport and across a terminal, no delays, no sitting on the tarmac, no lost luggage, no taking off your shoes." Now imagine t
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MapReduce in R(blog.opendatagroup.com)
23 points by snewe 17y ago|0 comments
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Congress weighs landmark change in Web ad privacy(tech.yahoo.com)
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by snewe 17y ago
Here is the BLS report: http://www.bls.gov/opub/regional_reports/200908_silicon_vall...
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In Silicon Valley, the Jobs Picture Has Changed(nytimes.com)
12 points by snewe 17y ago|6 comments
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by snewe 17y ago
Not only are AppsFire users likely unrepresentative, but the set of AppsFire users that completed the whole survey (i.e. "Tell us how much disposable income you have!") are even less representative. Apparently the editors are TC have the w
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by snewe 17y ago
Technically he tapped demand previously unsatisfied in the market.
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by snewe 17y ago
Ebay does this bidding for you. Anytime you enter an auction, the price you are willing to pay should be independent of how everyone else in the room values the object. If your willingness to pay is a function of the last bid, then you p
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by snewe 17y ago
How about you bid your "reservation price" and have no regrets? Simply bid the most you are willing to pay and then last minute bidders won't matter. That is the beauty of a second price auction.
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by snewe 17y ago
What about the new law about robo-calling? Will they be affected by that?
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by snewe 17y ago
http://www.nber.org/tmp/20791-w10894.pdf
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The Font War: Ikea Fans Fume over Switch to Verdana(news.yahoo.com)
4 points by snewe 17y ago|1 comments
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by snewe 17y ago
Here is the story: http://adsense.blogspot.com/2009/08/getting-most-revenue-fro... Seems like direct competition with PubMatic.
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Adsense will allow integration of other ad networks [video](youtube.com)
2 points by snewe 17y ago|1 comments
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by snewe 17y ago
Note that most VC funds have their fees fall as time goes on. Many fees fall by half after year 5 or 6.
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by snewe 17y ago
This may explain my observation that people who drink diet sodas drink a LOT of diet sodas, while people that just drink soda do so occasionally.
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by snewe 17y ago
That would be the "structural breaks" idea. The process in the last 80 years that generated the downward trend in times has changed recently due to technology, etc.
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by snewe 17y ago
That simple regression does not indicate anything...the author does not show that the data follows an exponential; he just imposes it. What about a non-parametric regression? What about structural breaks in the time series?
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by snewe 17y ago
Webfaction
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Google's Big IPO, Five Years Later(online.wsj.com)
3 points by snewe 17y ago|0 comments
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by snewe 17y ago
I read it as: "You can now share a document with your Google Groups members by inviting your_group@googlegroups.com"?
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by snewe 17y ago
Link to original article: http://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/five-key-reaso...
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Make Your Own URL Shortening Service(lifehacker.com)
1 points by snewe 17y ago|1 comments
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by snewe 17y ago
"Institute a 10% tax on landlords that flows into a federal savings account in the name of the renter. The renter can draw from his account only for a home mortgage, or at his retirement." So landlords raise rents 10% (or more) and the effe
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Alleged CrunchPad Specs Revealed: Will Michael Arrington Beat the Apple Tablet?(tech.yahoo.com)
17 points by snewe 17y ago|14 comments
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by snewe 17y ago
Blog spam. Direct link: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/send-mail-from-another...
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by snewe 17y ago
This letter: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/kana... effectively shows that the original paper ignored endogeneity, mis-interpreted coefficient estimates and data-mined.
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by snewe 17y ago
Exactly what I thought someone should write. I gather it didn't work out because it was difficult to monetize?
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by snewe 17y ago
Someone needs to keep track of these types of predictions and track how often the author is wrong. It is costless to make big predictions, because rarely do people come back and say "You were wrong." It would be nice if I could search for

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