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by stillsut 12y ago
My (somewhat lonely) contention has always been that these 'waste of time' games are actually the source of many more of the best programmers/quants than after school classes like 'learn to program 101'
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by stillsut 12y ago
Of. Course. they could build a bomb; just as the most technologically deficient society in the world (N Korea) already has. Building and testing a bomb accomplishes nothing positive for Iran's agenda: representing the threat that th
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by stillsut 12y ago
kaggle is probably "the MIT" of online learning: - Competition abounds - Those looking to passively absorb will be lost - To the winners go rewards and glory! It's achilles heel is that it doesn't tap collaboration as
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by stillsut 12y ago
Why is it even unusual for multiple people to split a large powerball? By definition: a large powerball means there's more tickets and thus more possible matches for the random draw. Another minor point: there's gotta be dozens
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by stillsut 12y ago
DIYbio has already started on this: Experimental Robot for $4k: http://www.opentrons.com/
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by stillsut 12y ago
From my quick glance, This ISN'T: novel drug/algorithm/X --causes-better--> patientoutcome, which would acquire trial/approval. This IS: things we do now, except in the cloud, so you don't have to keep two IT guy
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by stillsut 12y ago
> if my business and all my competitors are forced to pay twice as much for components, we will all raise prices, we will probably keep similar margins No, the organic food fight has always been about should we reap the (positive) econo
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by stillsut 12y ago
When the situation is reversed: (e.g. 'Non-Organic foods are just as healthy as Organic foods') there's often ad hom's directed at the researchers and an alleged 'whoring oneself out' to Big-Agri. I wonder if p
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by stillsut 12y ago
Check out the Innovator's Solution, the follow up. It explains why most of the profit (ability to charge your costs plus a premium) was dominated in the 90's by OS's, and not by the now notorious disk-drive companies. Gates p
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by stillsut 12y ago
This strikes me as a problem of acquiring recognition by peers in academia , not of making actually useful contributions/products in an inter-disciplinary field. Someone mentioned Musk, but I think there's a sharply increasingly
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by stillsut 12y ago
1. Couldn't a random hacker do that? Or a hacker affiliated with a private institution (e.g. News of the World)? 2. There's this terrible virus going around that locks you out of your PC or server meaning you lose all your data un
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by stillsut 12y ago
Just like the inmate in Texas executed, and (wrongfully?) convicted on pseudo-science arson investigation evidence. I wonder what other type of crap is putting innocent people in jail? Maybe more interesting question: how can a jury of aver
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by stillsut 12y ago
Try a different pitch, e.g. "10 year hoodie" https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jakehimself/the-10-year... It's not about what product specs you can claim - like wear for 3 days without wrinkles,
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by stillsut 12y ago
Having gone to school in MA, I know educational spending ($/student) here is inversely correlated with performance. But I'm not really worried about national average, state average, even school average: there just needs to be t
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by stillsut 12y ago
Clearly one of them is not writing click bait headlines: 50? Ain't nobody got time for that...
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by stillsut 12y ago
When you're 20 years old, and you get 20 million hits, you should have something reallllly good that you're working on to justify not pursuing your breakout hit.
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by stillsut 12y ago
SEEKING WORK i do >> MAPS << MAP: All Non-Profits in Massachusetts: http://willsutton.org/Oct16.html MAP: Traffic in Boston: http://willsutton.org/mitviz/cartoproj/indexA.html I can do
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by stillsut 13y ago
DropBox looks like the company that walks on four legs, then two, then three. First, it was just a smart choice to replace emailing yourself files. Pretty soon, it will be an IBM, where some sales guy will convince your boss that the DropBo
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by stillsut 13y ago
I'm curious: since this flaw was pointed out in 1977, has NYC had such winds? How many times? Would Sandy have done it?
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by stillsut 13y ago
A bug that would make even Heartbleed blush.
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by stillsut 13y ago
Can't I just weigh Galileo's cannon ball, then based on T from when I dropped it know its momentum? I think the difference comes on moving past the macroscopic world: say I drop a uranium atom into Shroedinger's box - I can&#
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by stillsut 13y ago
Dare I say it, but... "To the tune of Ten of Billions" is that sooo material? That amount's not unheard of for a single company, hedge fund, hell even individual (there was also that guy that loss 8 Billion). If it's hal
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by stillsut 13y ago
What executives say it does... "Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected." What it actually does... (that will be left to the reader.) "Big Data" is often sold as
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by stillsut 13y ago
Interesting, could you point out the open lab notebook wiki's? I'm looking to do that with IPython notebooks. In Boston, we're looking to revitalize DIY bio at BOSSlab http://bosslab.org/
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by stillsut 13y ago
You're absolutely correct, Onion. This is referred to as Uplift Modelling in the direct marketing lit. To observe if your algo has real world performance, you would want your invite list to include a (blind) holdout set composed of ran
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by stillsut 13y ago
When scanning the comments, I always make sure to read the grayed-out ones. They-re not usually great, but they tell me important information about HN audience's biases. So please, down-vote me!
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by stillsut 13y ago
Now this I agree with. See: http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2013/05/23/a-methuen... The line I'm trying to draw is between Intelligence/Communications-intercepts Vs. Enforcement. A
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by stillsut 13y ago
Three letters: IRS. Based on their whim, your privacy can be completely invaded, and you can be thrown in jail. This happens ALL the time. What is the NSA going to do? Bring you ("meddlesome kids") into court based non-admissable
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by stillsut 13y ago
This is why the whole secret agent "#3" thing in movies like Bourne Legacy, James Bond etc are so ridiculous. That's a worse code name then just using the person real name as it gives hints of the total participation in the s
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by stillsut 13y ago
For a house it's 2-5%. At this Rate, it's usually better for the broker to just close the sale whether it's $400k or $500k. This was an example in Freakanomics Vol 1 I believe.

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