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by tansey 16y ago
Well the real world is a much more complex scenario than simple simulations. Two points though: 1. We have not had much time to evolve away from such a mentality, so it's still very much bred into us. 2. One could say that gaining wealth is
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by tansey 16y ago
Imagine you're in a big slot machine tournament with 150 competitors. Each player gets to pull one of two machines. One machine pays $1 every time. The other machine pays an average of $0 but has a variance of $50. Everyone gets 1 pull, the
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by tansey 16y ago
I think it's a nice site, but I don't know why someone would pay for the feature. - Your motivating example is someone who wants to buy or sell a stock at a certain price threshold. Why wouldn't you just set a limit order or a stop-limit or
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by tansey 16y ago
Additionally, 3 of the 4 had major PR behind them. Kevin Rose was on ZDTV/TechTV where he publicly talked about (and where I first heard about) Digg; the Quora guys got famous as the "ex-FB executives" who left to form their company; and St
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by tansey 16y ago
Wave, Jaiku, Dodgeball, Answers, Buzz... there is a common theme here. Google is a company run by engineers and their hiring process is designed to find people who can solve problems. It's been said before, but Google is great at panda task
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by tansey 16y ago
I think he was referring to the logo and color scheme being very similar.
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by tansey 16y ago
It seems like this is basically a web-based replacement for a spreadsheet. I like the idea of tracking and timing things so as to minimize your capital gains tax. It's not a problem I have in particular, so I can't specifically speak to it
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by tansey 16y ago
To a financial professional (or at least to me), the info that's available without signing up is a little vague. It would be great if you could clarify things in the details pages. Maybe a demo or tour? How exactly are you optimizing portfo
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by tansey 16y ago
What do you mean by "heavy lifting"? Are you saying you tend to work on simpler mobile apps as opposed to more complex apps, since the back-end calculations are too intense? If so, then we definitely need to work together. :) Note: I don't
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by tansey 16y ago
Sure. Happy to work with you and conorgil if interested. See my profile for my email.
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by tansey 16y ago
Finding people to work on short, proof-of-concept projects with. I have a list of more than 25 items that I would love to work on, but have little motivation without someone willing to help out. I don't necessarily want to form a startup on
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by tansey 16y ago
What about sites like Meetup? I had this same problem after moving and found a lot of regular hobbies locally.
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by tansey 16y ago
Sure, but if you're still performing top-notch research, your future publications at Stanford will show that. The goal is to rank schools based on which ones are the best research universities. The pressure to perform future research is lo
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by tansey 16y ago
They lead by a large margin because they are buying their scores. People who have highly-cited papers are going to end up at very prestigious schools. For instance, imagine you publish a paper while at Oregon State on curing cancer and it g
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by tansey 16y ago
It's called the h-index: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-index
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by tansey 16y ago
> # For example, Paper A is written by Author B and Author C, when this paper was published in year 2000, Author B is affiliated with Organization 1, and Author B was affiliated with Organization 2, provided such information was present
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by tansey 16y ago
Good summary. > Why not minimize the front-running problem by making the dates you roll harder to predict? Instead of rolling the front month every month, why not include some basket of CL1 thru CL12 and find opportune times to roll? Wh
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by tansey 16y ago
I do the same thing, but with one caveat. I have a subject prefix for different categories of ideas. Every idea email thread starts with "X idea:", where X is "Site", "Research", etc.
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by tansey 16y ago
If this were true, people would also hate Google. Certainly search is at least as necessary as a social network. However, most people love Google.
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by tansey 16y ago
First off: http://startuplawyer.com/startup-issues/if-i-launched-a-star... You aren't even mentioning an S-Corp. Is there some restriction that is keeping you from an S-Corp status? They also avoid double taxation while still giving the b
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by tansey 16y ago
Is there any idea when are applications are going to be open for YC W11? When do they usually open for winter sessions?
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by tansey 16y ago
Think of all the amazing campaign slogans you could have though: * "PG - He's for me!" * "Paul Graham - He's the man!" [sic] * "No more DC slackers, we want YC hackers!" * "Paul Graham: Invest in America" * "PG: Bringing the 'start' back to
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by tansey 16y ago
Mob rule? We have a constitution designed for majority say with minority rights. We have checks and balances. There is a reason we need a social contract in society, and it's been well articulated by people like Locke and Hobbes for hundr
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by tansey 16y ago
You want non-lawyers drafting laws? There's a good reason why most congress people are lawyers. The law is very tricky and English is an ambiguous language that needs to be made crystal clear from a legal standpoint (which typically becomes
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by tansey 16y ago
This is a horribly edited article. Almost every 3-sentence summary includes some typographic or grammatical error. Some interesting companies though. Glad to know I'll still be considered a "young" entrepreneur for a couple more years. :)
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by tansey 16y ago
5 second review: I visited the site, read the headline (good job there), and then clicked the thumbnails to see larger images of the status board. It is very confusing that some of the images are snapshots of panels with an X in the upper r
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Tutorial - Evolving Neural Networks with SharpNEAT 2(nashcoding.com)
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by tansey 16y ago
Can we assume only operators that return integers are valid? For instance, you can't do sqrt(2) factorial, but you can do sqrt(4) factorial. Kind of tricky when dealing with things like 2 * (3/6) though.
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by tansey 16y ago
It's amazing how much that library looks exactly like the one at Johns Hopkins.
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by tansey 16y ago
I scanned the page for the word "Buy" on the left or top, hoping to find links to sites that sell ergonomic desks. Maybe it's just me, but I would find the left side more helpful if it was titled "Ergonomic Desks You Can Buy" or something s

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