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by tdaltonc 13y ago
I'm trying to escape academic neuroEconomcs right now. I was shocked by how much nepotism and how little merit there is in academic science. I'm pursuing a research agenda about 'learning' on my own. I built an free API
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by tdaltonc 13y ago
>I think the Ph.D. system is an abomination. It was invented as a system for educating German professors in the 19th century, and it works well under those conditions. It’s good for a very small number of people who are going to spend th
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by tdaltonc 13y ago
Reminds me of this: http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/apis
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by tdaltonc 13y ago
I think that there are other wage setting mechanisms that you're neglecting. An employer that pays above the market rate can get better talent. An employee can ask for more pay. They can leave for a job that pays more. ect.
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by tdaltonc 13y ago
I'm not sure that this actually suppressed wages that much. Oligopolies only work when nearly everyone is in on it. If you have too many 'cheaters' than the cartel can't control the price. There were a lot of tech compan
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by tdaltonc 13y ago
That sounds really awesome but I don't see anything about it at wearscript.com
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by tdaltonc 13y ago
I'm not sure that the oligopoly really captured that much money. Oligopolies only work when nearly everyone is in on it. If you have too many 'cheaters' than the cartel can't control the price. There were a lot of tech c
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by tdaltonc 13y ago
I'm surprised that there aren't any PCA/Feature-Extraction/Dimension-Reduce algos on this list. And there's also a really strong emphasis on clustering and classification. Is this an artifact of how the list was put
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by tdaltonc 13y ago
This isn't like normal tech-transfer. Most of the teams that would be looking for funding on a break-through idea, and can't get it from NIH/NSF aren't going to be seasoned tenured faculty. They're going to be senio
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by tdaltonc 13y ago
If it can only profit by providing a service for which people are willing to pay, it might not be able to get out of hand.
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by tdaltonc 13y ago
It's a understandable analogy, but an autonomous profit making systems wouldn't need to act like a corporation. Depending on what it's decision making system is like, it could have behavior for which we don't a prior fro
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by tdaltonc 13y ago
Before bitcoin, a corporation needed a person to open bank accounts, sign off on payroll, write checks to suppliers, etc. With bitcoin, a set of algorithms can do all of those things. A profit making system doesn't need any human conta
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by tdaltonc 14y ago
http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2011/09/22/are-we-entering-the-a...
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by tdaltonc 14y ago
Right now there's a strong incentive to be born in to the right family. http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2011/09/22/are-we-entering-the-a...