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by utunga 14y ago
It's not quite the same but the woman who comes around every couple of weeks and does my accounts, we both acknowledge is about 80% 'slap based' productivity and 20% her specialized knowledge at this point. When she comes around I usually '
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by utunga 14y ago
Would've been better to link to the actual kick starter page - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bilal/baghdad-community-... where people can take action. Instead of boingboing blogspam version.
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by utunga 14y ago
If you enjoyed Geoff Hinton's talk you will probably find the theano 'deep learning' library to be of use. Still undergoing quite a lot of iteration but powerful and you get to run your stuff on the GPU for added fun. http://deeplearning.n
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by utunga 14y ago
This is going to lead to a loss of confidence amongst many - investors, advertisers, partners - who thought that Twitter was finally past its initial scaling/teething issues. It's not like there is anyone that hasn't heard of Twitter at thi
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by utunga 14y ago
I don't think its fair to describe that as a fundamental error. Rather, your explanation while OK as far as it goes is overly simplistic. Yes, its the real value not the currency that we are after, but you also have to take into account se
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by utunga 14y ago
solid real example - though not strictly quantifiable.. but in this piece Max Haot makes absolutely no bones that changing their name from Mogulus to LiveStream had a massive effect on their success (he says it over and over again) http:/
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by utunga 15y ago
Much as I think this whole thing is a bit unfair on Andy T.. the money quote has to be from Ast, in his reply to Linus: "I still maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel in 1991 is a fundamental error. Be thankful you are not
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by utunga 15y ago
degree in math with my honors project in AI and 3d graphics - was pretty damn close to a degree in CompSci.. was never really a problem except perhaps the occasional brain dead HR filter that doesn't deserve to work (EDIT: by which i mean '
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by utunga 15y ago
sure is (interesting). unfortunately I don't know enough about it beyond just suggesting you google m-pesa and go from there.. ;_)
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by utunga 15y ago
1. clicked through as described 2. Carnegie's book not on my list either Amazon fixed this already or it never worked in Chrome? or something else.
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by utunga 15y ago
you may not have heard of m-pesa - which arose out of people being able to transfer mobile minutes and then became a fully fledge mobile currency in it's own right.. as xtrumanx says (below) m-pesa is huge. you might also note that this has
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by utunga 15y ago
i agree that the value will come from things external to you - i.e. the best you can do is set up the conditions or rules of the interaction in such a way that they are conducive to them creating or assigning that value - but simply ignorin
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by utunga 15y ago
a little unfair to tack this response on to this particular post, but it reminds me (again) how much time people spend on the outward appearance of apps around alternative currency without addressing the part that's actually hard.. how do y
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by utunga 15y ago
seems to me that one of the main ways SPDY speeds things up is by sending of hints and attached content all in one connection. If you are proxying over http, you can't have access to any of the domain specific information, and thus you wo
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by utunga 15y ago
fixing the monetary system - how about that for ambitious ;_)
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by utunga 15y ago
has google published anything about how their audio copyright detection algorithm works? i ask because i know some people faced with the (clearly related, it seems) problem of automatically recognizing birdsong (as in - identifying from bac
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by utunga 15y ago
Actually that's not mandated by law at all. What is in the law is an onus of responsiblity on service providers like Google to protect people under 13. So the response of Google/Facebook etc.. simply make it part of their terms that childre
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by utunga 15y ago
i realise this is a discussion about economics not finance - but i think this little story sheds some light on this. early into a job on wall street i found that the companies default risk model could be improved (against the 'training'/reg
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by utunga 15y ago
not only that but surely 'per capita' is a terrible measure to use for normalizing a place like manhattan where the population during the day (aka the size of market for bike shops) is such a large multiple of the 'per capita' population (
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by utunga 15y ago
i worked for a startup (eVend) that tried to tackle the 'hard problem' stripe tackles way back in 1997. You read that right - 1997! From Stripe's home page: "you don't need a merchant account or gateway. Stripe handles everything, including
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by utunga 15y ago
maybe there's a startup sales model in there somewhere ;-) the next groupon?
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by utunga 15y ago
A funny story - how I got my first Stanislaw Lem book from a Washington Square park bookseller.. Guy had a table with a wide range of second hand books mostly sci fi. I carefully picked over the pile and chose some of my favorite authors -
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by utunga 15y ago
interesting how, when first invented, the bumps went down kinda makes more sense to have the top side flat - but just feels so wrong to me now.... interesting
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by utunga 15y ago
This is just a trick to be able to build some sort of social network graph based on 'reads' of email isn't it? Nice use of google/gmail api nevertheless. I installed it to see if it works/because it looks fun but will probably uninstall it
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by utunga 15y ago
I agree, but with a caveat on point 3. I think its a very compelling idea and having gone all the way through was very impressed with your execution. As for point 3.. - Yes you should look at charging for themes. I was half expecting you to
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by utunga 15y ago
I hated it - as it took too long to log in. But didn't know how to log in otherwise - and keep my account. Keeping access to my account was the main thing (preferred username + some karma) Fortunately, thanks to other comments in this threa
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by utunga 15y ago
after initially being totally bemused - 'what is this?','how do i get it to do something'? 'what am i supposed to click?' .. i returned here, read this comment and then after about 3-4 clicks I finally got it to actually deliver what i
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by utunga 15y ago
seriously the coolest thing ive seen in ages - had a really great time jamming out with a bunch of strangers just like that ... awesome effort
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by utunga 15y ago
Please for the love of all that is holy - stop buying companies! It's really just so painful to see good companies sucked into the gaping maw of installer hell, 50MB downloads and bureaucratic 'enterprise' sales that - with exception of Pho
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by utunga 15y ago
I was really open to this - to new things and new features.. but then i started using it for the real day to day things that i already love delicious for. Arghh! They seriously broke many key parts of the old functionality - things I really

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