starchild_3001

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by starchild_3001 7y ago
If it's time to shoot from the hip (or rather extrapolate), let's rebut a little bit. i) Human working population is shrinking, but robots are rising. Remember this person doesn't exist https://www.thispersondoes
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by starchild_3001 7y ago
Something is a bubble if its future discounted cash flows cannot cover its current valuation. Can the author please make a rigorous case by looking at actual numbers (e.g. her predicted valuation 5-10 years ago vs now.. or analyze a few com
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by starchild_3001 7y ago
Slack is a great product (vs email or public chat alternatives). I wish them the best expanding their user base. Are they worth 16B? None of the armchair investors here know their financials (addressable market size, user growth rate, expec
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by starchild_3001 7y ago
"One of these things is Facebook, by far the world's largest social-networking site. In a recent paper, economists Hunt Allcott, Luca Braghieri, Sarah Eichmeyer and Matthew Gentzkow investigated how much money they had to pay Face
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by starchild_3001 7y ago
Log normal is something like Y = X1 * X2 * X3 * .. * XN, where Xi are iid positive random variables? Through central limit theorem one could argue Y ~ exp(N * normal) for large N. Strictly speaking, 1/N log Y converges to a normal rv i
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by starchild_3001 7y ago
Updates/upgrades are justified. Using old style in new code, often, isn't.
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by starchild_3001 7y ago
Well said! Windows + associated app software, drivers, viruses back then used to be the biggest source of problems. Today I have none of that with Mac, iOS or Android. Having no reset for days or months is normal and expected.
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by starchild_3001 7y ago
YouTube talk about the same: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXGCQPLUtdQ
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by starchild_3001 8y ago
For an overarching theory, see the book: Microbial Burden: A Major Cause Of Aging And Age-Related Disease by by Michael Lustgarten. Also related: What if we found out that blood microbiome is the most significant marker of heart disease? E.
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by starchild_3001 8y ago
I do a lot of clustering professionally, yet TDA feels very academic. Does finding locally connected components have practical value with "noisy" data sets'? If what you're after is locally connected components, why can&
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by starchild_3001 8y ago
I'm 40 years old. I remember the last 30 years in my home country (Turkey) very well. What happened in this period? Awesome things. Access to food, shelter, healthcare, cars, many many amenities and luxuries of life have expanded wildl
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by starchild_3001 8y ago
Really good thoughts here. It definitely pays off to have a versatile skill set ranging from theory, to model building, all the way to writing & owning the production code. If you lack skills in one area, develop it & become an expe
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by starchild_3001 8y ago
As a broad response, let's just say not everything is perfect. These systems can be and are abused (by publishers, malicious actors). Yes, let's fix those. But let's not overlook why these things have become popular in the fi
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by starchild_3001 8y ago
The biggest benefit of social media over forums or email lists is ML-based ranking. You save a ton of time reading the most crucial, while skipping the rest. The platforms are addictive not because they're designed to be, but because t
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by starchild_3001 8y ago
Best solution proposed here! Put your money where your mouth is Taleb and Silver! Btw, I read 3 of Taleb's books, 1 from Nate Silver. Both are pretty good. Taleb is the more original, but also more often-objectionable.
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by starchild_3001 8y ago
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing!
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by starchild_3001 8y ago
I could never stick to carnivore long term, but I like the short term effects. Here's the LLLT device that I use: 1) Aweek® 96 Leds IR Illuminators Light IR Infrared Light LED infrared light CCTV Camera Night-vision Fill Light for CCT
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by starchild_3001 8y ago
RIP. Oh, god when will US learn from its past mistakes? I did enjoy reading Blum's books ~15 years ago. "Basically it's US foreign policy which creates anti-American terrorists. It's the things we do to the world. It&#x2
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by starchild_3001 8y ago
There's a whole group of people who're benefit from eliminating histamins, FODMAPs etc---and even any form of fiber, which probably you already know. Check out carnivores (again if you don't know yet): https://zero
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by starchild_3001 8y ago
Hey, the dude published 1700 papers. Even if his repetition factor is 3 or 4, that's 400+ unique publications. Let's show some respect ;) Also, in some fields, it's acceptable to publish the same material thrice: i) conferenc
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by starchild_3001 8y ago
Lol, first going to infinity, now going to zero. This is the typical overshoot/undershoot behavior. When everybody starts believing something is going to zero, it bounces back and vice versa.
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by starchild_3001 8y ago
Some people had a lot of hard feelings about the old name. Glad to see their concerns addressed without actually changing the name of the conference (hence keeping the brand).
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by starchild_3001 8y ago
As Warren Buffet would say Facebook leaders need to start imagining seeing all their words and actions on the front page of WSJ and act accordingly. Nothing stays private. Say and do the right thing, don't play games. This is the bigge
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by starchild_3001 8y ago
I've been finding Apple's 3D maps a spectacular success over Google's for a while. Yes, they do make it easier to find the building you're looking for. And, give visual clues about where you should be driving. Very littl
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by starchild_3001 8y ago
Who else thinks this article sounds fishy? Well, the numbers sound quite low. Nothing is mentioned about stock, RSUs, options, bonuses. Nothing is mentioned about sample sizes or the statistical significance of the delta. Comp is very heavy
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by starchild_3001 8y ago
Lot's of nonsense here. Rich vs gifted? Yeah, right, as if you can control for all the other factors and compare the two. Rich correlates with so many other things (genetics, support network, exposure to the right kind of things). Gift
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by starchild_3001 8y ago
I too thought the article's arguments were pretty weak. Brave New World and 1984 are good counterexamples to disprove the article's main point. I would also enjoy seeing a point-by-point analysis of what was predicted and what hap
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by starchild_3001 8y ago
My old company's reviews are full of lies (through omission). Basically, the company fights vigorously with anyone who posts a negative review (and they somehow manage getting them removed). Anyone who posts a positive review remains :
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by starchild_3001 8y ago
Accepted a silicon valley job offer [tech hotspot, eng job] in 2004 over a research lab in Princeton, NJ [small town, paper-writing job] and another in San Diego [small town, eng job] upon the advice two elder folks I knew very little. Swit
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by starchild_3001 8y ago
Yeah, come to Google. PS: I work there, and it's a good place :) In all seriousness, promising startups are few and far between. If you find one (aligned with your interests), by all means jump on it :) How do you know if a startup is

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