srconstantin

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by srconstantin 14y ago
I have tried umpteen billion times to install Apache. I have wasted several full days trying and failing. I have a Mac. I must be retarded.
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by srconstantin 14y ago
I didn't have social trouble in high school, I had trouble in college. And that's something that I think goes unrecognized. Everybody knows about the crazy suburban high school experience, but a surprising number of my friends were severe
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by srconstantin 14y ago
I don't believe deferred altruism is as good as it's cracked up to be, because of the importance of motivation. If you tell someone who wants to work in a homeless shelter, "Go to Walk Street instead and give away your wealth" you may be c
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by srconstantin 14y ago
I don't trust people who start businesses and say they're not interested in money. Money is one of your best gauges of whether you're doing things right. Not being interested in money when you're working on a for-profit enterprise makes m
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Machine Learning with Large Networks of People and Places(scribd.com)
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by srconstantin 14y ago
Idea #1) Safemap Pull crime blotter data, and deliver the least dangerous route between two locations. Offer a "danger score" for locations. Idea #2) Health Tracker with Correlations There are a lot of self-tracking apps out there; few to
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by srconstantin 14y ago
I'm skeptical. All of the articles cited are indeed about civil liberties, but I don't see them as being problems that can necessarily be improved by developing better cryptography. The social network propaganda isn't so much of a technolog
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by srconstantin 14y ago
I actually miss old-fashioned web design. These old pages look like text, and not much else. But most of what I want to do online is text; I want to read and write. The simplicity is actually an aid to clarity.
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by srconstantin 14y ago
This is very informative. The only thing I'd quibble with is the claim that teams should not be diverse. I think, unless everyone is a generalist, there's no way to start a company without some diversity of skills. The other day, another m
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by srconstantin 14y ago
One,Two, Three, Infinity is probably the best possible introduction to math for kids. The big challenge is skipping ahead to the "cool stuff" for kids who are still young enough to lack facility with algebra. Most attempts to do this are e
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by srconstantin 14y ago
I do this. Every now and then I decide I'm "claiming the day in the name of fun" and just work on an interesting coding project. Having unofficial projects is necessary to survival.
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by srconstantin 14y ago
I disagree. Strongly. Following your dreams, not working too much, spending time with family and friends, saying what you think, and being happy, might belong at the top of Paul Graham's todo list. He's already succeeded at what most peop
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by srconstantin 14y ago
Who do you think makes those tools?
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by srconstantin 14y ago
With respect to CS in particular, I think it's different from all other school subjects in that it is and has always remained a predominantly self-taught subject. You don't really get "taught" to program. (I think this may be part of the r
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by srconstantin 14y ago
Undergrads do have serious information asymmetry problems. My best guess as to the reason is that they don't have a lot of interaction with a wide range of people in the working world. They don't really have any idea what it'll be like t
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by srconstantin 14y ago
I'm not sure if this article is saying people with more CS theory and math do better than people with more work experience, or if it's saying it's hard for everyone to get hired.
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by srconstantin 14y ago
Web apps are cheap to build, easy to learn how to build, fall into a predictable model for investors, and are equipped with lots of social institutions (like YC) encouraging people to build web startups. So, all things being equal, we sho
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by srconstantin 14y ago
I know! I love it as a place to shop, would never try to make money as a seller. But if they wanted to change that, they could -- run calculations for sellers as to how much they should charge to be profitable, all the stuff that the averag
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by srconstantin 14y ago
Etsy is a form of "micro-work" but it's never been particularly good financially for people who sell stuff on Etsy. I wonder what they can do for connecting sellers to each other to pool supply costs and identify each seller's likely consu
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by srconstantin 14y ago
Basically I agree that "when in doubt, learn science." In American society, we have more of the norm of "when in doubt, don't learn any science." And that's counterproductive. In other countries, there are explicit and implicit reminders
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by srconstantin 14y ago
I'm not sure that it would be bad if the average size/age of businesses decreased. It seems to me that in larger businesses, while you do get advantages of scale, you also have problems related to size (bureaucracy, knowledge problems, etc.
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by srconstantin 14y ago
I'm so relieved to hear this from someone else. About two years ago I read an article by Peter Thiel and it was kind of my "ask what you can do for your country" moment. That was when I realized that I didn't want to be an academic, that I
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by srconstantin 14y ago
Link to LaSVM paper: jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers/volume6/bordes05a/bordes05a.pdf Also a good overview of SVM techniques in general.
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by srconstantin 14y ago
So...are you saying you need the dual formulation in order to allow a kernel model?
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by srconstantin 14y ago
I'm not sure you couldn't solve this as an optical character recognition problem, with something like Isomap, which is invariant under orientation and scale changes. Break your image up into patches, reduce dimensionality on all of them, a
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by srconstantin 14y ago
A lot of this is stuff I've been thinking implicitly for a while. Success can exist on a continuum between competitive and niche. The far end of "competitive" is being something like a concert violinist. Everyone knows that it's prestigiou
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by srconstantin 14y ago
Where do people selling consumer electronics on Kickstarter find manufacturers and supplies? (My first guess would have been Alibaba, but is that feasible for someone really starting from zero?)
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by srconstantin 14y ago
I agree that difficulty is a good lesson; but it doesn't seem to be working for a lot of people in the US. Many students give up on math early. That might not be economically sustainable. I don't think math education is optimized to make
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by srconstantin 14y ago
I agree; the whole thing could be done with pictures rather than numbers. Lay out an actual grid, with objects -- seven ladybugs in the third row, fourth column, etc. When you subtract one row from another, you physically drag the ladybugs