ten_fingers

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by ten_fingers 14y ago
My first comment on this thread was down voted to -4 quickly. That post did nothing seriously wrong on the HN rules. Since only a few users are able to down vote, that down voting had to be heavily or entirely from HN mods. For more evide
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by ten_fingers 14y ago
I was attacked strongly for no good reason. Basically this UID was ruined because I am now an enemy of the HN mods. In the future, they wouldn't let me comment in positive terms about apple pie. The main reason for the attack was clear:
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by ten_fingers 14y ago
"Nothing concrete"? SURE there is. Just read what I wrote. I said to pick an important, unsolved problem and then to do some research to find a powerful solution. For what is 'research', get a Ph.D. from a good research university. For h
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by ten_fingers 14y ago
My point is clear, simple, rock solid, quite explicit, and very well supported: Again, yet again, this time just for you, my point from DoD research is that DoD research shows that research can find powerful solutions to important practica
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by ten_fingers 14y ago
You responded to my post about the law of large numbers and utility functions? That is actually a good and appropriate observation. Of course, some mods came along and down voted it. I doubt that they understand either the law of large num
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by ten_fingers 14y ago
You are not reading and are just angry for no good reason. And what you are saying is total nonsense. For the venture capital asset class, average returns over the past 10 years have been poor, including on Sand Hill Road. For the returns,
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by ten_fingers 14y ago
You talked yourself into nonsense. On waste in DoD, sure, but not the parts I was talking about. Some of the big waste was, say, getting AC working in Iraq and now getting Diesel fuel and jet fuel to Akrapistan. And the cost of the black
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by ten_fingers 14y ago
If my project is successful, I will be a billionaire, many times over. I have no desire to do that, and really don't want the down side of being that wealthy, and didn't try to pick a project that would make so darned much money, but that'
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by ten_fingers 14y ago
No, I never claimed that academic research and Ph.D.s have high average value. The "value" of these two in nearly all cases is low. But, the value in particular cases is astoundingly high, totally blows away nearly everything else. What i
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by ten_fingers 14y ago
> The solutions you are offering are so general that by following this high-level point of view we can solve world peace, world energy and world poverty and still make the evening tea. Nonsense. I'm talking applied research. There's r
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by ten_fingers 14y ago
You deliberately misread or need a remedial reading course: I was clear, totally clear, crystal clear: My point was that the DoD research shows that research can be powerful for finding solutions to practical problems. Your point does not
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by ten_fingers 14y ago
Come on bird brains, cough up what passes for thinking in your flock of losers. "Losers"? Sure: As the limited partners know all too well, the returns over the past 10 years from the 'information technology' venture capital 'asset class',
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by ten_fingers 14y ago
More attacks. No thoughts. WHAT a flock of bird brains.
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by ten_fingers 14y ago
Okay, you dirty, filthy, rotten chicken bastards, ANSWER with THOUGHTS or STOP the voting attacks, you dirt bags.
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by ten_fingers 14y ago
Ah, how to use the law of large numbers and utility functions to make money!!!
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by ten_fingers 14y ago
PG, In part you are correct, but you are making some huge mistakes and, in a saying from my past, are "straining over gnats and forgetting elephants". > That's made harder by the fact that the best startup ideas seem at first like bad i
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by ten_fingers 14y ago
> You don't have to convince me that mathematics is important--my background is in pure mathematics. I just don't think CS people are hapless fools who need applied math people like you from the outside to help them out. In my book, t
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by ten_fingers 14y ago
You make several points. It appears that you don't like my main point but have no good argument against it or replacement for it; I will respond and try to explain my main point again. One of your points seems to be that the selection of 1
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by ten_fingers 14y ago
Hmm, let's see: One of the algorithms is the fast Fourier transform (FFT). It is sometimes described as a form of matrix factorization and multiplication. Another algorithm is Dantzig's simplex algorithm for linear programming: It is bas
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by ten_fingers 14y ago
I hope most of this post is wildly wrong. To decide is for now heavily a judgment call. However, it may be crucial that we decide quite soon. In case of doubt, for something like domain name seizures, there is a two word solution -- 'due
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by ten_fingers 14y ago
But, but, but, just think of the progress! How much progress we've made! I mean, in Germany in the 1930s, when one newspaper wanted another newspaper shutdown, the solution was Brown Shirts with clubs! Since the police leadership was all
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by ten_fingers 14y ago
Yes, and that's the way I learned in high school. At the time it appeared that we factored to achieve some 'artistic' goals of making the algebraic expressions 'look nice'. When later I concluded that we factored for some serious purposes
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by ten_fingers 14y ago
No, my reasoning and wording are fine: Instead, "Things should be as simple as possible and not simpler"!
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by ten_fingers 14y ago
The answer is simple, dirt simple: If you have to ask the question, then DON'T! That is, we factor algebraic expressions if and only if (iff) we have a good reason to do so. If we don't have a good reason to factor, then there is no need
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by ten_fingers 14y ago
The claim in the article is tough to swallow and seems to have been written to get attention. I can't believe the claim as stated, but there might be a way to restate their claim and get something believable in some narrow cases. First, how
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by ten_fingers 14y ago
Let's see: (1) See a market opportunity in yachts 55 feet long. Need to hire a yacht designer to get the engines, hull shape, hull construction, safety, other engineering details right and supervise the construction including selecting the
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by ten_fingers 14y ago
No, no, no, no!!!!! You left out!!!! You have the market, the business idea, the technology, the software, the team, and the beta users all in good shape but you didn't tell a good 'story'!!!!!! You failed at 'story telling'!! "Once upon a
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by ten_fingers 14y ago
In one word, classical. In two words, classical instrumental. In more violin, cello, piano, orchestra, and voice not in English, e.g., usually Italian. Examples: Rachmaninoff Rapsody on a Theme of Paganini Van Cliburn
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by ten_fingers 14y ago
The lesson is very old: "Typing is no substitute for thinking." from Kemeny and Kurtz in their book on Basic.
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by ten_fingers 14y ago
Following your reference, I see: > During this time, top climate change scientists from around the globe—comprising the United Nations-sponsored Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)— improved understanding of global warming

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